Publisher: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai

Caietele Echinox

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

Echinox is a well known Romanian review, that has been published since 1968. Starting with 2001, the Echinox Cultural Foundation amplified its activity, issueing, besides the Echinox review, the academic publication Echinox Journal. Echinox Journal is a bi-annual publication, issued in 300 to 400-page volumes, comprising studies in Romanian, English, French and German. It represents an interface between the Echinox Cultural Foundation and the Center for Imagination Studies at the Faculty of Letters of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania. As such, the Echinox Journal is dedicated to the study of the social and cultural imagination. It approaches various topics concerning the production of images, symbols and myths. It encompasses a broad area of domains: comparative literature, history of religions, fine arts and films, history and sociology, cultural studies, etc. The aim of the Journal editors is to cooperate with various institutes, academic centers and professional organizations, as well as to publish the results of certain research programs undertaken by the Center for Imagination Studies in joint partnership with these institutions.

Educatia 21

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

The major objectives of the Educatia 21 Journal is to create and sustain a free open space for reflection and pedagogical research related to contemporary educational issues. This means that the journal does not charge any fees. There are no submission and processing charges.

This international journal publishes original papers, integrative reviews of research literature bearing on education, including conceptualizations, interpretations, and syntheses of literature and scholarly work in a field broadly relevant to education and educational research. All this content is available in the online Educatia 21 Journal that has an Open Access format.

Educatia 21 Journal accepts manuscripts related to the educational sciences field or interdisciplinary approaches on current topics of interest: curriculum, teacher training, educational management, instruction, higher education, secondary education, preschool education, distance education, lifelong learning, school counselling, educational psychology, special-education, inclusive education, new media technologies in education, comparative education etc.

Journal of Research in Higher Education

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

The Journal of Research in Higher Education (JRHE) is published by Babeș-Bolyai University and edited by the Centre for University Strategy and Quality Management (CUSQM), twice-yearly, in English (the authors may choose a second international language for the abstract of their article), online. JRHE is sent to libraries in Romania and abroad, as well as to international data bases.

JRHE publishes studies concerning the field of higher education, as well as topics connected to policies and management in the academic field. Thus, JRHE hosts research, articles, debates and reviews examining various issues of higher education, with an emphasis on empirical research and on policies in the field, informing its readers of the latest progress in the field. Even though each higher education system has its unique characteristics (and this is valid at institutional level, as well), there are also a number of common issues and topics at international level. JRHE offers the opportunity to exchange results, practices and policies; moreover, it offers a platform for discussion, exchange of ideas and debate for the experts in the field at an international level.

JRHE aims to constantly increase its visibility in the field, by publishing original research and by disseminating results of scientific research in the field of higher education in the academic world, thus becoming a valuable scientific resource.

Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory is an open-access, peer-review, online publication for academic research, published twice a year (July and December) by the Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania. It promotes free-access for academic work and it welcomes authors who want to share their research and resources with their peers. It encourages, recognizes and rewards intellectual excellence in interdisciplinary and intermedial approaches of literary culture, visual culture and theory. The journal welcomes papers in English (or, for regionally oriented topics, Romanian) from the following domains: comparative studies, including digital and posthuman studies; literary studies, cultural studies, including social and gender studies; media and film studies, literary criticism and theory, cultural poetics. All articles must explore metacritic, reflexive dimensions of the issues covered, whether aiming for theoretical or methodological conclusions, or focused on pragmatic, applicative or analytic issues. The journal discourages unsystematic work, lacking in argumentative cohesion and conceptual clarity.

Territorial Identity and Development

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

Our journal hosts the results of original empirical and theoretical scientific research on territorial identity as a resource for development, as well as book reviews. It offers specialists and practitioners with diverse backgrounds (Geography, History, Sociology, Economy, Administrative Sciences, Architecture and Urban Planning, etc.) the possibility of sharing their research results and best practice experience. Topics of interest: Territorial identity and community development (rural and urban); Territorial identity and regional development; Territorial identity and territorial planning; Territorial identity and public policy; Research methodology for the study of territorial identity