Last update: December 13, 2003
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Paideusis-JICS* is a refereed Internet journal aiming at an open international and interdisciplinary dialogue.
Each volume of the journal focuses on a certain topic, bringing points of view and interpretations from a wide variety of disciplines and specialisms.   These fields are as different as:
Sociology / Anthropology / Geography / Economics / History / Philosophy / Literature / Linguistics / Semiotics / Psychology / Medicine / Cognitive sciences / Nonlinear sciences (fractals, chaos,cellular automata, self-organized criticality, neural networks...) / ..
Each issue is thus meant to become a meeting place for “searchers and researchers” looking at the same subject from different angles, enhancing the possibility that new insights will emerge.
The journal promotes an active exchange of ideas between domains that rarely meet, confident that mutual understanding and cooperation between specialists from various, and differing, disciplines and cultural backgrounds will emerge and prosper.

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SECTIONS
(for details, please see also the information on the submission of manuscripts):

ARTICLES represent contributions dedicated to the topic of the issue.
However, papers with obvious interdisciplinary and/or cross-cultural character that lie outside the issue’s general topic are also considered.

LETTERS TO PAIDEUSIS are shorter contributions that are not necessarily linked with the issue’s topic. This section of the journal is aimed at informing scholars of results from early stages of research projects.

Through MEETING POINT LETTERS, Paideusis-JICS encourages contact between different institutions, associations, and research groups, focusing on interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research and communication. They comprise brief self-introductions and contact addresses/names.

The special section IN MEDIAS RES is dedicated to reports from ‘the middle of events’.  In contrast to the main section of the journal dedicated to major finding, conceptual analysis and theoretical development,  IN MEDIAS RES is a space dedicated to researchers who wish to communicate contemporary results (e.g., from field work or early results from pilot experiments), reports from ongoing events (conferences, meetings, expositions, research projects etc) and related topics that would be of interest to readers. Such articles can be submitted and published alongside topic-focused journal volumes and will be subject to the normal process of anonymous paper review.

The REVIEW section is dedicated to book/journal and web site reviews, with special emphasis on interdisciplinary and cross-cultural material and preferably connected with the issue’s topic.

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The Greek word “paideusis” belongs to a family of nouns which have a particular resonance with each other. To the ancient Greeks “Paideuma” meant something cultivated, instructed, a place of learning (Anton Dumitriu, “Terra mirabilis”), but it has a wider semantic domain due to the contributions of Frobenius in “culture morphology”. A related word, “paideia”, refers mainly to sophisticated wisdom, while in contrast, “paideusis” emphasises the process of instruction, the essence of how to educate. It is a continuing process, somewhat different to earlier interpretations which focused on the results of learning.  “Paideusis” is also a site of knowledge, a place from which wisdom irradiates (as in Pericle’s Epitaph written by Thucydides).

We should like Paideusis-JICS to be a place where one can generate new insights, and also a place where people may learn from each other - from the other’s domain, the other’s culture.  Paideusis-JICS aims at facilitating a direct dialogue between disciplines and cultures, to help them know and understand each other better.

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Cristian Suteanu - Saint Mary's University, Halifax.

EDITORIAL BOARD

  Stefan Alexe  - University of Vienna;
  Edmond Cretu - Technical University, Delft;
  Adrian Bors - University of York;
  Cathy Conrad - Saint Mary's University, Halifax;
  Anne-Marie Dalton - Saint Mary's University, Halifax;
  Radu Dogaru - University of California, Berkeley;
  Stefan Dorondel - Village Museum, Bucharest;
  Franck Dubois - International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam;
  Quentin Gausset - Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen;
  Nikos Gousgounis - Pedagogical Institute of Athens;
  Niamh Hourigan - University College Cork;
  Cristian Ioana - Center for Complexity Studies, Bucharest;
  Aurel Nicola Iovitu - Siemens Medizintechnik, Bucharest;
  Carmen Iovitu - National Art Museum, Bucharest;
  Aron Jinaru - Center for Complexity Studies, Bucharest;
  Anni-Lorei Mainka - Cologne;
  Vasile Morariu - Institute for Isotopic and Molecular Technology, Cluj Napoca;
  Mihai Nechifor - University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi;
  Daniel Poenar - University of Singapore;
  Roberto Quaglia - Genova;
  Emil Rotiu - National Institute of Glass, Bucharest;
  Maureen Silos - Moiwana '86 Human Rights Organization, Paramaribo, Suriname;
  Mirela Suteanu - Educational Program Innovations Center - EPIC Marketing Solutions, Halifax.

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

  Alessandra Areni - "La Sapienza" University, Rome;
  Kenneth Arrow - Stanford University;
  Linda Arthur - University of Hawaii;
  Morag Bell - Loughborough University;
  Niko Besnier - Victoria University Wellington;
  Colin Campbell - University of York;
  T. Matthew Ciolek - The Australian National University, Research School for Pacific and Asian Studies, Canberra
  Marcel Danesi - University of Toronto;
  Mattei Dogan - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris;
  Aone van Engelenhoven - Leiden University;
  Michael A. Forrester - University of Kent;
  Michael Gardiner - University of Western Ontario;
  Enrica Garzilli - University of Perugia;
  Keith Hart - Cambridge University;
  LeAnne Howe - Grinnell College;
  Joern H. Kruhl - Technical University Muenchen;
  Gabriel Landini - University of Birmingham;
  Lamont Lindstrom - University of Tulsa;
  Tanya Luhrmann - University of California, San Diego;
  Mimi Marinovic - University of Chile;
  Roberto de Andrade Martins - Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNNICAMP, Brazil;
  Chris McMurray - The Australian National University, Research School for Social Sciences, Canberra;
  Kay Milton - Queen's University, Belfast;
  Helen Morton - La Trobe University, Melbourne;
  Charles Muller - Toyo Gakuen University;
  P.S. Ramakrishnan - Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi;
  Howard Richards - Earlham College, Richmond;
  Barry Sandywell - University of York;
  Hideki Takayasu - Tohoku University;
  Chuluun Togtohyn - Colorado State University (on leave from: the Mongolian Academy of Sciences);
  Andrew Tudor - University of York;
  Stella Vosniadou - University of Athens;
  Deborah Waite - University of Hawaii;
  James Weiner - The Australian National University, Research School for Pacific and Asian Studies, Canberra.
 

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

  Alanna MacLellan-Mansell, Saint Mary's University, Halifax.
 

For correspondence please use the e-mail address:
cristian.suteanu&smu.ca
(please replace " & " with the "@" sign)

or

 the snail-mail address:

Dr. Cristian Suteanu
Dpt. of Geography, Saint Mary's University,
923 Robie St., Halifax, NS, B3H 3C3 Canada

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For book/journal/web site reviews, available space is established flexibly upon consultations with the author. Please contact the editors, stating in the proposal the kind of material to be reviewed and the intended paper length.

Hard copies (matching exactly the electronic version) should be mailed (only upon request) to the snail-mail address (please be sure to specify also an e-mail correspondence address).

Electronic submission is the preferred method of submission.

After the evaluation of materials by blind peer review, authors are notified by e-mail about the acceptance of their contributions or about possible necessary corrections. In every case, however, the copyright for the published material remains with the authors.

Paideusis-JICS is an open journal, aiming at a large mutual interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue. Submissions which in the opinion of the editors are discriminatory will be rejected.

Paideusis-JICS publishes articles/essays, short notes, letters and comments, as well as literature and electronic fingerprints of visual arts. It also reviews relevant www sites and printed books/journals.

Paideusis-JICS publishes materials mainly in English. Contributions in other languages are also accepted, but they should be submitted only after having consulted the editors: this will help keeping a balanced structure of the journal.

Manuscripts of articles and essays are expected to refer to the topic announced in the "Call for papers" for the corresponding number of the journal. An interdisciplinary approach is strongly encouraged.

Articles should have a maximum length of 12000 words and should be accompanied by a short abstract in English (less than 300 words). They are evaluated using anonymous peer review. Please contact the editors in connection with the number and the type of figures to be submitted.

Letters may be independent of the number’s topic, and they should not exceed 5000 words. Comments are dedicated mainly to previously published material and must be limited to 1000 words.

For book/journal/web site reviews, available space is established flexibly upon consultations with the author. Please contact the editors, stating in your proposal the kind of material to be reviewed and the intended paper length.

All manuscripts, corrections and notices relevant to the journal should be submitted by e-mail.

Please read also the  guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts.

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Please make sure you read also the information on the submission of manuscripts.

Manuscripts should be prepared on a word processor, in one of the formats: Word, WinWord, WordPerfect (under DOS or Windows) or in plain text format (ASCII).

Authors do not need to concern themselves with formatting and the layout of the text. Under no circumstances should there be used spacing (formatting by using the space key) or line spacing commands, font changes (other than italics as specified below), headers, footers, page numbering, margin changes, centering commands, or any special characters meant to change the format/layout of the text. Please do not use hyphenating. The use of abbreviations should be kept to a minimum. Articles comprising mathematical formulae should be prepared in Word or WinWord. Please contact the editors in connection with the number and the type of figures to be submitted. Good quality photographs, drawings and figures sent separately via e-mail are acceptable as .jpg, .gif, .tif, .pcx, .bmp files. Do not imbed figures in the text files. A list of figure captions (including the specification of the corresponding filenames for each figure/image) must accompany any material comprising figures. Do not forget to specify in your e-mail message (used to attach the manuscript) the operating system and the program - in each case, the type and the version - you used to write the manuscript and create the figures.

A number of up to five key words must accompany the articles and essays.

Manuscripts should comprise on their front page: title, author(s) names (first name, last name) and affiliations, addresses (including phone, fax and e-mail), and (in the case of multiple authors) the name of the person to which correspondence from the editors should be sent, abstract, key words. Please specify if and where the article has appeared previously (conference a.s.o.).

Chapters may be numbered. Their titles should be written in uppercase letters.

Stressed text should figure in italics or, in the case of plain text (ASCII) files, it should be placed between { and }.

Citations in text may be done either by bracketed numbers (i.e. [1] or [2-5]) or by mentioning the names and the year: (Johnson, 1996) or (Jack and Jill, 1918), do not use any initials or the sign “&”. For works with more than two authors, cite the first author followed by “et al.”: (Herbert et al., 1997). Pages may be specified immediately after the year (Johnson, 1996:139-145). In all cases, references should be arranged at the end of the article in alphabetical order. They will comprise: author’s name(s) and initials, year (in parentheses), title, journal name (unabridged), volume, number, pages (from - to). Example:
Tick Y., Toe J. (1990), How to specify references, Scientist's Guide, 5, 1, 123-148;
Johng W., Kobur N. (1975), Trying to follow, in: Collis G. and Ybrett O. (eds.), Obeying rules, Bequeford, Bequeford University Press, 162-165.

Citation of electronic sources. The ISO (International Standard Organization) standard appears to be the most complete in citation elements. The standard is also supported by the Chicago Manual of Style. DIS 690-2 (subject to further modification) recommends that the following citation elements be included in bibliographic references to electronic documents:  Primary responsibility, Title, Type of medium (e.g. online; CD-ROM), Subordinate responsibility, Edition, Issue designation (for serials), Place of publication, Publisher, Date of publication, Date of update/revision, Date of citation, Series, Notes (physical description; accompanying material; system requirements; frequency of publication; language; other notes), Availability and access (e.g. URL), Other availability information, Standard number (e.g. ISBN, ISSN).
For any problems regarding the editing of the manuscript, you may send an e-mail to the editors - they will be pleased to help you find a suitable solution.

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