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ATEA’s journal, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, is one of the most prestigious international outlets for the publication of research in teacher education.

The Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of ATEA and edited by:

  • Professor Margaret Kettle (Central Queensland University, Australia)
  • Dr Stephen Heimans (University of Queensland, Australia)
  • Professor Keita Takayama (University of South Australia)
  • Professor Gert Biesta (National University of Ireland at Maynooth)
  • Book Review Editors: Assoc Prof Amanda Gutierrez & Dr Bronwyn Reid O’Connor
  • Editorial Assistant Dr Kathryn Bown

Aims & Scope

The Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education publishes original research that makes a significant contribution to advancing knowledge and understanding of the complexities of teacher education across early childhood, primary, secondary, vocational, and higher education, and other formal and informal settings in which teachers work. The journal editors invite for peer review theoretically-informed papers – including but not limited to empirical, historical and policy research – which focus on themes and issues relevant to an international audience. These issues of relevance to the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education are:

  • Teacher education, including initial teacher education and ongoing professional education.
  • The cultural, economic, political, social, practice-based, and/or technological dimensions and contexts of teacher education.
  • Change, stability, reform and resistance in (and relating to) teacher education.
  • Enhancing the significance of research in teacher education.
The editors of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education take teachers and teacher educators seriously as human beings who, individually and collectively, seek to make a difference for their students, their communities, and society at large. Research in which teachers or teacher educators or, for that matter, students are only present as variables in statistical or other analyses without further consideration of what this may mean for the complex work of teachers and teacher educators is unlikely to be considered for publication in the journal.

VIEW STATISTICS

ATEA Journal Award Winners

Outstanding Paper Award

The editors’ award the Outstanding Paper Award annually to one of the papers published in the volume of the previous calendar year, announced every July at the ATEA conference. Winners receive a certificate and monetary award provided by Taylor and Francis. The criteria for selecting the outstanding paper are:

  • Originality of contribution to knowledge in areas aligned with the journal’s aims and scope and originality/innovation in the use of theoretical and methodological resources.
  • Quality of argument and argumentation.
  • Positioning and impact: Positioning of paper in existing international literature and evidence of potential impact.
  • Writing style: accuracy, clarity and impact.

Previous recipients of the Outstanding Paper Award:

2024, Volume 52: Xiaojiong Ding & Yingying Yan for their paper titled: Managerial Groups Competing in the Field of Teacher Professional Development: A Case Study of Shanghai, China. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2023.2298710

2023, Volume 51: Neil Harrison & Ivan Clarke for their paper titled: The impossibility of keeping history in the past: Working beyond cognitive science to locate historical significance in the Stolen Generations. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2022.2151415

2022, Volume 50: Matthew Clarke & Caroline Elbra-Ramsay for their paper titled: Double Indemnity: Dualities, tensions and loss in the moral economies of feedback. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2021.1980861

Outstanding Reviewer Contribution Award

The editors’ award the Outstanding Reviewer Contribution Award annually to reviewers who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to reviewing for APJTE. Recipients are announced at the ATEA conference and receive a certificate and monetary award provided by Taylor and Francis. The criteria for identifying outstanding reviewers are: the number of reviews completed in the calendar year; and the feedback and detail in the reviews to assist authors to refine their submissions.
Previous recipients of the Outstanding Reviewer Contribution Award:
2024: Fiona Ell, Ellen Larsen, Tony Loughland and Margaret Marshman
2023: Melissa Cain, Rebecca Cooper, Susanne Gannon and Bernadette Walker-Gibbs
2022: Peta Salter (special mention to Jennifer Gore, Lexie Grudnoff, Kevin Lowe, Gemma Scarparolo and Carol Reid)

INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

Internships with the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education are intended to build capacity in the association’s early and mid-career researchers with regard to knowledge/skills in editing the journal. Through this opportunity, interns:
Up to two interns join the editorial team for six months. Calls for applications are announced via the ATEA newsletter. Applicants must be: