If you wish to submit an article to La Recherche En Éducation, we kindly ask you to adhere to the following recommendations. Any article that does not comply with these rules will be returned to the authors for adjustment before being submitted to the review committee.
Articles published in La Recherche En Éducation should be conceptually rigorous while being accessible to informed readers who are not specialists in a particular discipline or research method. They address an audience of researchers and practitioners interested in staying informed about developments in educational sciences and practices.
If you wish to publish in our journal, we recommend reviewing past issues and citing, where possible, sources already published in our pages.
All articles submitted to La Recherche En Éducation are evaluated anonymously by at least two qualified members of the international review committee and the editorial team. Authors are notified of the decision: acceptance, major or minor revisions, or rejection in its current state.
The evaluation results allow the editorial team to make a final decision, which will be communicated to the author(s).
Except in justified cases, submitted articles must adhere to the following formatting rules:
The abstract, keywords, and title must be provided in French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Article proposals should be sent via email by the author(s) through the journal's website (https://www.la-recherche-en-education.com) and/or the provided contacts.
The article should only include the title, abstracts, and keywords in the four required languages. Each article must be accompanied, on a separate page within the same file, by a note indicating:
Articles must be written in French; however, they can also be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese if one of these languages is the national language of the authors' country.
Word Format, Calibri 12 font, single spacing, and 2.5 cm margins on all four sides (including illustrations, abstracts, and bibliography). The number of characters may vary depending on the space occupied by illustrations, but it must never exceed 35,000 characters (including spaces).
Verbatim from interviews should be cited in quotation marks without italics:
Citations should be inserted into the text, in quotation marks (« … »). Author references should appear in the text as follows: (Estrela and Marmoz, 2006) or (Estrela and Marmoz, 2006, p. x).
Figures and tables should be placed in the text where they are mentioned and must include a title and number.Tables should use: Calibri 10.
Notes should be placed at the bottom of the page and cannot replace the bibliography. They should be limited to three at most.
References should be those cited in the article. Citations follow the style of the Revue Française de Sociologie, in Calibri 12. Available here: https://www.zotero.org/styles/revue-francaise-de-sociologie
Book: GOFFMAN E., 1974, Frame analysis: An essay on the organization of experience, London, Harper & Row.Article: HARRIS C., BROWN W., 1989, “Teaching Business Ethics Using Fiction: A Case That Failed”, Organizational Behavior Teaching Review, 13, 1, p. 38-47.Chapter: Author's name and first initial (year). « Chapter title », in first initial and name of author in small caps (ed. or eds., if multiple authors), book title, publisher, p. x-y (e.g., PERRENOUD P. (1993). « Curriculum: le formel, le réel, le caché », in HOUSSAYE J. (ed.), La pédagogie: une encyclopédie pour aujourd’hui, ESF, p. 61-76).
Each article must be accompanied, immediately following the title page, by its abstract (less than 500 characters, including spaces) in four languages (in Calibri 10 normal for French, and italic for English, Spanish, and Portuguese) and a list of up to 6 keywords (e.g., Keywords: abstract; methodology; discussion).
We encourage authors to familiarize themselves with articles already published in La Recherche En Éducation to support their work with validated and existing knowledge. Before entering the review process, at least two members of the editorial team assess whether the article meets the content and formatting criteria as detailed in the preface and submission guidelines. Each article submitted to La Recherche En Éducation undergoes a double-blind review by two experts in the field. After communicating the recommendations to the author(s), the revised article may undergo a second double-blind review by the same reviewers.