Journal of Educational Thought
About
Journal of Educational Thought (JET) promotes speculative, critical, and historical research concerning the theory and practice of education in a variety of areas including administration, comparative education, curriculum, educational communication, evaluation, instructional methodology, intercultural education, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Critical and controversial views in the field of education or on previously published articles in the Journal of Educational Thought appear in a section entitled "The Forum," which contains papers of a less formal nature. The book section includes short book reviews as well as extended book review essays. The Journal is international in scope and qualitative in nature. It serves a broad readership: specialists in the areas mentioned, scholars, and the public in general.
It is the policy of the Journal to provide an open forum for scholarly discussion. Contributions share the viewpoints of the writers themselves and do not reflect the official positions of the Werklund School of Education or the University of Calgary. The editors reserve the right to make changes that improve the clarity or brevity of manuscripts.
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Editor-in-Chief
As of February 2026, the Journal of Educational Thought welcomes Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton as its new Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Eaton is a Professor and Werklund Research Professor at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, where she has been a full-time faculty member since 2016. Her research sits at the intersection of higher education, ethics and integrity, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and neurotechnology, and she leads transdisciplinary research teams that take a forward-looking perspective on educational innovation.
Dr. Eaton brings extensive editorial leadership to the role. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Educational Integrity (IJEI), a Q1-ranked journal published by BMC Springer with a 2024 impact factor of 6.9, and as Editor-in-Chief of the Second Handbook of Academic Integrity (Springer Nature), widely regarded as the most prestigious major reference work in that field. Her contributions to educational scholarship have been recognized internationally, including the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) Award for Exemplary Research (2022) and the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE) Research and Scholarship Award (2020).
Dr. Eaton is “honoured to serve as the new editor-in-chief of the Journal of Educational Thought, which has mobilized knowledge about educational research from contributors all over the world for more than half a century.”
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We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies.