For queries or informal discussions about potential themes, please contact the journal Publisher: Sharon Parkinson.
Caribbean Educational Research Journal (CERJ) invites proposals for special issues that advance scholarship, policy, and practice in Caribbean education and related global contexts. We welcome proposals from prospective Guest Editors who can curate a compelling collection of articles addressing critical issues, innovative approaches, and emerging research relevant to the Caribbean and its diasporas
Purpose
Special issues provide an opportunity to:
Spotlight timely and significant topics in Caribbean education.
Bring together diverse perspectives, including regional, international, and comparative insights.
Foster dialogue between researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and communities across the Caribbean and beyond.
Amplify underrepresented voices and support scholarship from the Global South.
List of topic areas
Potential Themes
To inspire your thinking, here are examples of themes aligned with current priorities in Caribbean education:
Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice: Access, participation, decolonising curricula, and culturally sustaining pedagogies.
Caribbean Identities and Knowledge Systems: Indigenous, local, and diasporic perspectives in education.
Teacher Education and Professional Learning: Workforce development, teacher retention, and contextually responsive practices.
Student/ Teacher Wellbeing and Holistic Development: Mental health, resilience, trauma informed education and social-emotional learning in Caribbean contexts.
Neurodiversity in Caribbean Education: with exploration of experiences, challenges and pedagogical responses.
Digital Education and Innovation: Technology-enhanced learning, online and blended education, and ethical use of AI.
Student Performance: Across disciplinary, institutional and educational levels.
Educational Leadership, Policy, and Reform: System-level change, governance, and regional collaboration.
Sustainability and Climate Education: Environmental education, climate resilience, and education for sustainable development.
Education and Development: with connections to the developmental mandates, processes and outcomes for the region and beyond.
Education and Reparatory Justice: Reparative contestations, transformative praxis.
Global and Comparative Perspectives: Cross-regional research and connections between the Caribbean and other Global South contexts.
Note: These are illustrative only. We strongly encourage Guest Editors to propose alternative or complementary themes that reflect emerging priorities, under-researched areas, or innovative approaches.
Submissions information
Proposal Guidelines and Timelines
If you are interested in proposing and guest editing a special issue, please contact the journal Editors or Publisher in the first instance with a brief outline (no more than 300 words) including:
Proposed theme
Brief scope and objectives
Guest Editor team
Your initial proposal will be reviewed within 2 weeks and, if successful, you will be invited to complete a formal special issue proposal form.
Once the form is returned, the publisher will carry out due diligence checks and aim to have a final decision within 2 weeks.
