A team of scholars from Michigan State University’s College of Education has been chosen to edit the leading journal for teacher education.
The faculty members will edit the Journal of Teacher Education for three years. The journal’s publisher, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, selected the new editors through a competitive process.
MSU's elementary and secondary education graduate programs have been recognized by education deans around the country as being top in the nation for 20 years in a row, in an annual ranking conducted by U.S. News & World Report. This expertise will help the journal grow and evolve.
“We are extremely excited and proud to be awarded the editorship of the Journal of Teacher Education,” said Donald E. Heller, dean of the College of Education. “This is an important recognition of the quality and reputation of our faculty in Teacher Education and their standing among their peers across the country.”
The new editorial team consists of four co-editors—Dorinda Carter Andrews, Robert Floden, Gail Richmond and Maria Teresa Tatto—and six associate editors—Tonya Bartell, Angela Calabrese Barton, Terah T. V. Chambers, Joshua Cowen, Rebecca Jacobsen and Cynthia Okolo. The team also will induct one assistant editor each year.
The current editorial team at Penn State University, which has served since August 2010, will continue work on the journal through June 2015 to complete Volume 66; however, the MSU team will receive all new manuscript submissions effective March 1.
The MSU editors represent diverse areas of expertise and are widely published in major journals. Several also have editorial experience working on other journals, while others will bring fresh perspective to the team and gain critical insights for future leadership positions.
The MSU proposal to host the journal won praise from reviewers for its plan for innovative steps toward both increasing the audiences reached by the journal and maximizing its international outreach.
Strategies to foster these goals included “Chats with JTE Editors,” utilizing the Green and Write educational policy blog to recruit national and international scholars, and translating article abstracts into at least four high-incidence languages.
Overall, the team impressed reviewers as having an ambitious vision for the next three years of the JTE, coupled with a solid editorial team and attention to small but important details.
“AACTE is thrilled to entrust its journal to another outstanding team of researchers,” said Sharon P. Robinson, president and CEO of AACTE.