Focus & Scope

Innovations in Science Education and Practice publishes high-quality original research, review articles, and scholarly studies in science education, applied sciences, and interdisciplinary scientific innovations that contribute to education, technology, sustainability, and societal development. The journal welcomes submissions in the following areas:

• Learning science education: consisting of theoretical and empirical research studies on learning of science. We invite manuscripts that investigate learning and its change and growth from various lenses, including psychological, social, cognitive, sociohistorical, and affective. Studies examining the relationship of learning to teaching, the science knowledge and practices, the learners themselves, and the contexts (social, political, physical, ideological, institutional, epistemological, and cultural) are similarly welcome.

• Science Education Innovation: innovation in the field of science education or innovation to solve science education problems. Innovation can be in the form of ideas, goods, methods, media, judgments that are felt or observed as new things for learning science that are used to achieve educational goals or to solve problems in science education.

• Media Development, Learning Models, Assessment and Evaluation in Science: studies in the development of learning media, learning models, and assessments in science education. This study is in the form of a systematic presentation method or technique used by teachers / lecturers in organizing the experience of the science learning process in order to achieve the objectives of learning through media, models and assessment of science learning.

• Science Education Policy: including reports about the goals and/or underlying principles of policies adopted by government, interest groups, school districts, etc., and their effect on science teaching and learning. Additionally, research on science education policy relates to a critical examination of how theory, research, and practice of science education are influenced by policy decisions.

• Issues and Trends: consisting primarily of analytical, interpretive, or persuasive essays on current educational, social, or philosophical issues and trends relevant to the teaching of science. This special section particularly seeks to promote informed dialogues about current issues in science education, and carefully reasoned papers representing disparate viewpoints are welcomed. Manuscripts submitted for this section may be in the form of a position paper, a polemical piece, or a creative commentary

• Science Learning in Everyday Life: consisting of analytical, interpretative, or philosophical papers regarding learning science outside of the formal classroom. Papers should investigate experiences in settings such as community, home, the Internet, after school settings, museums, and other opportunities that develop science interest, knowledge or practices across the life span. Attention to issues and factors relating to equity in science learning are especially encouraged.

• Science and Technology Innovations for Educational and Societal Applications: This section welcomes high-quality original research reporting scientific discoveries, experimental studies, technological developments, and applied science innovations that advance scientific knowledge and contribute to education, environmental sustainability, public health, industrial innovation, and societal development. Manuscripts should present rigorous scientific methods and demonstrate the scientific significance, practical applications, or potential contributions to science education, laboratory sciences, sustainable technologies, or broader scientific advancement.

Innovations in Science Education and Practice publishes high-quality original research articles and invited review papers that advance science education, applied sciences, and interdisciplinary scientific innovation. Manuscripts are evaluated based on scientific rigor, originality, methodological quality, ethical research practices, and their potential contributions to science, education, technology, sustainability, and society. Interdisciplinary studies addressing contemporary scientific and educational challenges are particularly encouraged.