{"id":196559,"date":"2023-03-20T07:30:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T11:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=196559"},"modified":"2023-03-20T09:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T13:53:21","slug":"neag-graduate-students-publish-inaugural-issue-research-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/03\/neag-graduate-students-publish-inaugural-issue-research-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Neag School Graduate Students Publish Inaugural Issue of Education Research Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the hard work and dedication of a group of graduate students at UConn\u2019s Neag School of Education, the School\u2019s first academic journal has published its inaugural issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is with great pleasure we present the inaugural edition of the Neag School of Education Journal<\/em>,\u201d reads a letter from the journal\u2019s board members<\/a> in the Spring 2023 issue. \u201cThis project, imagined and operationalized entirely by students, has been in the works for close to two years, beginning with our conversations during the pandemic as we searched to create a place to gain experience in research and editing, as well as foster connection with others in graduate school whilst enduring remote learning. We are so excited and proud to share it with the larger educational community. Congratulations to our authors and happy reading!\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Neag School of Education Journal<\/em> is an editor-reviewed, open-access, annual journal. Founded and run by graduate students and published online<\/a> through the Neag School, its primary purpose is to offer a platform for graduate students to share their research and knowledge with academic communities, and to broaden and deepen the literature of education as written and experienced by graduate students, as well as early-career scholars. Five doctoral students from the Neag School make up the journal\u2019s founding board, and four additional graduate students serve as editors.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing part of the journal’s team is a privilege for all of us,\u201d says Luis Ferreira, a founding member who is pursuing his doctorate in educational psychology at the Neag School. \u201cWe built the journal from scratch and had the opportunity of debating every single step of its construction to make our dream come true. It is amazing to see how people in our community are supportive of our dream.”<\/p>\n

The journal places significance on pieces that seek to \u201cimprove education and social systems in order to facilitate increasingly effective, equitable, and socially just practices for educators and practitioners from a variety of fields, perspectives, and theoretical lenses as they serve their local communities.\u201d The journal solicited submissions of a variety of manuscript types \u2014 from qualitative and quantitative research articles to essays, literature reviews, and personal experience and reflection pieces.<\/p>\n

The five articles accepted and published in the Spring 2023 issue are:<\/p>\n