Welcoming the London Review of Education to UCL Press and ScienceOpen

We are pleased to announce the London Review of Education (LRE) is the latest Institute of Education Press journal to be hosted on ScienceOpen as part of the UCL Press family.

In conjunction with this announcement, we are also delighted to promote the latest issue of LRE, out today! LRE joins the Film Education Journal and the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning on ScienceOpen. ScienceOpen provides full open access hosting and metadata distribution services for these journals, placing them within the context of over five hundred curated collections and 63 million publication records. There are 2 more education and social science publications still to move, so stay tuned!

Learn about LRE

Covering key themes across the education field and more, LRE is a wide-ranging journal that features significant analyses and research studies that are interdisciplinary and diverse. LRE publishes work pertaining to curriculum, educational improvement, equalities and human rights, institutional effectiveness, and more! LRE particularly strives to feature works that provide helpful connections between research, policy and practice. As an open access journal with no article processing fees, LRE is available to all as a valuable source on education topics. LRE’s integration onto ScienceOpen will further increase the reach of LRE’s content. 

Dive into the new LRE issue!

Issues of LRE often include a special feature, and the following articles are two of five contributions in the 18(2) special feature on artificial intelligence (AI) and the human in education. In ‘Digital literacies’ by Kucirkova and Mackey, the authors observe how personalized books enhanced with AI can affect children and reduce a child’s sense of individual agency. Taking a much wider perspective, Saltman considers how the development of for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) technologies fosters the privatization of public education and erodes the values and practices of democratic education.

• Digital literacies and children’s personalized books: Locating the ‘self’
  Natalia Kucirkova and Margaret Mackey
• Artificial intelligence and the technological turn of public education privatization: In defence of democratic education Kenneth J. Saltman

Whether or not they have a special feature, all issues of LRE include general articles, and the breadth of subjects covered in 18(2) is typical for the journal. Amongst other issues, the articles investigate:

• summative assessment in primary science
• the support needs for effective teaching of first aid in secondary schools
• adaptations to a new learning environment for mainland Chinese students studying for master’s degrees in Hong Kong
• how teachers resist the normalized policy discourse and positioning of educational reform