BERA is delighted to announce that, following a competitive recruitment process, a new editorial team has been appointed for the Curriculum Journal. From January 2025, the team will comprise six editors: Carol Azumah Dennis (The Open University), Mel Green (The Open University), Gordon O. Ade-Ojo (University of Greenwich), Parise Carmichael-Murphy (Arden University), Tom Power (The Open University) and Paulette Johnson (The Open University).

The Curriculum Journal is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes original contributions to the study of curriculum theory, as well as curriculum-making practices. It encompasses issues relating to governance and policy development, teacher professional learning, assessment and pedagogy, insofar as they pertain to curriculum. The journal has flourished under its current team of editors, and BERA very much looks forward to working with the incoming team to introduce exciting new initiatives that will build on these achievements and further extend the journal’s reach and reputation. The editors will be supported by the journal’s editorial board, which includes leading curriculum scholars as well as representation from across the UK and abroad.

The team members say: ‘It is an absolute privilege to be taking up the editorship of the Curriculum Journal. Mark, Stavroula and the rest of the editorial board have done a fantastic job. We will be working on a journal that has been successful in shaping the field of curriculum studies over the past six years. We appreciate the international nature of the editorial board and over the next few years our ambition is to situate the journal in the decolonial turn, animated by the ethical imagination, equity and anti-racism.’

BERA issued an open call for applications for the editorship of the Curriculum Journal in 2024, inviting team proposals that set out a strategic vision for the journal. Applicants were shortlisted based on the strength of their proposals and their relevant academic and editorial experience. The selection panel was impressed by the appointed team’s cohesive shared vision for the Curriculum Journal, their commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, and their ambition for the journal to represent a truly global dialogue on curriculum issues.

BERA would like to extend its sincere gratitude to the outgoing editorial team for their exceptional leadership of the journal over the past six years: Stavroula Philippou, Mark Priestley, Emma Cooper, Daniel Alvunger, Grace Healy, Kathy Hibbert, David Leat, Nienke Nieveen, Claire Sinnema, Joseph Smith and Tiina Soini. The journal has benefited immeasurably from their profound knowledge and expertise and the hard work and dedication they have shown throughout their editorship. Under their direction, the journal has achieved significant growth in readership and has firmly cemented its reputation among education scholars and professionals as a home for high-quality research in the field of curriculum studies. We wish them all the very best and look forward to future collaboration.

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The Curriculum Journal aims to contribute to the renewal of the field of curriculum studies, enrich curriculum conversations and enable practitioners and scholars to engage with curricular issues, thus placing consideration of curriculum firmly at the heart of educational discourse and practice. To find out more about the Curriculum Journal, please visit this link.

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