Call for papers: Adult and continuing education's response to the global Covid-19 pandemic
New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development
Editors:
M Cecil Smith (West Virginia University)
Jeremy Bohonos (Buffalo State College)
The COVID-19 global pandemic has quickly become a catastrophe that threatens millions of lives and the livelihoods and well-being of people throughout the world. As our scholarly and professional communities are developing and testing ways to respond to the present challenges, we have a great need to share emerging effective practices. For this reason, New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development is announcing a Call for Papers in an upcoming themed issue. Among the concepts that we would like to see explored in this issue are:
What are the potential strengths of and challenges for adult and continuing education during times of national crises?
In what ways is the field of adult and continuing education contributing to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and in other countries around the world?
How have your institutions, agencies, programs, and staff responded? What strategies have been implemented to continue delivery of adult education programs to serve student needs?
How is adult and continuing education likely to be affected over both the long- and short-term by the COVID-19 pandemic? What steps should be taken to mitigate the damage so that the field can continue to provide education and training to meet adult learners’ needs in the post-pandemic world?
What can we learn about the purpose and value of adult and continuing education as an enterprise and a resource for responding to a global pandemic? How has adult and continuing education assisted adult learning during this time?
How will the field need to adapt and change to prepare for the next inevitable pandemic or other global or national crisis?
Taking a broad view of our field we encourage submissions on a variety of topics, not limited to:
Case-study descriptions of how institutions are responding to COVID-19;
Our fields’ roles in providing education and training related to COVID-19;
Reviews of literature exploring the connections between our field and public health or other medical sciences;
Historical analysis of past pan/epidemic events and their effect on education and the workforce;
Emerging communities of practice focus on fighting COVID-19;
Social movement organizing in an age of social distancing;
Artistic and musical responses to COVID-19;
New applications of learning technologies;
Social justice, equity and equality issues emerging as a result of COVID-19 including labor organizing of frontline workers and differentiated death rates of historically marginalized groups.
Given the need for timely and relevant dissemination of this research, we are welcoming manuscripts ranging in length from 2500-7500 words. We are also inviting relevant perspectives papers of between 1000 and 3000 words. All submissions will be peer reviewed. Deadline for submissions of papers for this themed issue is June 15, 2020. While submitted papers need to make this deadline for full consideration for this themed issue, any papers on these topics received after the deadline will be considered for future editions of the journal.
For more information, see the attached pdf.