About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Educación y Educadores is an international scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed articles and is aimed at researchers or academics interested in deepening their understanding of educational theory and pedagogical knowledge.
Identity of Educación y Educadores
Educación y Educadores is the scientific journal of the Faculty of Education of Universidad de La Sabana; therefore, it adheres to the Institutional Educational Project. The journal disseminates significant contributions in multiple areas and levels of educational theory and practice, resulting from research and rigorous study by the academic community of education professionals.
This is an open-access publication that actively participates in the dynamics of the scientific configuration and consolidation of education, and of pedagogy as the science of educational practice, contributing to the search for dignifying and humanizing solutions in the various educational settings of society.
Mission
The journal Educación y Educadores aims to disseminate significant contributions in the multiple areas and levels of educational theory and practice, resulting from research and rigorous study by the academic community and all education professionals who wish to collaborate with the journal.
Vision
Educación y Educadores will be an open publication, without methodological limitations, within the framework of its institutional vision and character; a journal that actively participates in the dynamics of the scientific configuration and consolidation of education and pedagogy, as the science of educational practice, contributing to the search for dignifying and humanizing solutions in the various educational settings of society.
Editorial Philosophy
The principles that constitute the editorial philosophy of Educación y Educadores are the understanding of education as rational and free, personal and social human action, aimed at the improvement of the subjects and communities involved in its realization; pedagogy understood as a multidimensional field of knowledge production on educational practice; the various actors in the educational field, including academics, researchers, and professionals from different disciplines interested in education, as agents committed to understanding, transforming, and qualifying formative processes and knowledge; and the social function of education as a process of reconfiguring social structures toward increasingly just and supportive models of relationship that defend and promote the transcendent dignity of the human person.
Within the framework of respect and appreciation for plurality and academic dialogue, Educación y Educadores does not exclude in advance contributions that uphold educational positions and proposals different from its editorial philosophy, nor does it identify with the ideas expressed by the authors, which are their sole responsibility.
Educación y Educadores is addressed to all professionals and academics interested in the educational field, in their own training, in the improvement of pedagogical practices, and in the redefinition of education as a field of reflection and action.
Scientific and Editorial Committee
The Scientific and Editorial Committee aims to ensure the scientific rigor, academic relevance, and thematic pertinence of the journal’s content. The Committee is also responsible for defining the journal’s content publication policies for each issue, appointing reviewers, and resolving any disagreement or conflict of interest that may arise regarding the content and focus of any work that generates controversy for possible publication.
The Committee is composed of individuals with extensive academic careers and institutional affiliations with national or international educational organizations, universities, or research centers in the social sciences.
Thematic Framework
Educación y Educadores is framed within the social sciences, specifically the sciences of education. Accordingly, the published works are classified as follows:
Educational System, Policy, and Educational Transformations
This category includes studies on the dynamics, tensions, and transformations of educational systems at their various levels, as well as analyses of policies, governance, management, and evaluation of education, approached from diverse and contextualized perspectives.
Pedagogy, Didactics, and Innovation
This category calls for research on pedagogical and didactic processes, the construction of educational knowledge, and transformations in teaching and learning practices across diverse contexts and modalities.
Professionalism, Teacher Education, and Teacher Development
This category includes studies on the teaching profession in its ethical, social, and institutional dimensions, as well as research on initial and continuing education, professional development trajectories, pedagogical knowledge, teacher identities, and the conditions under which educational practice is shaped and transformed in relation to contemporary challenges in education.
Publication Frequency
Periodicity: the journal Educación y Educadores publishes two issues per year, corresponding to one issue per semester, each with a minimum of ten (10) articles. Additionally, as part of its strategy, the journal proposes the publication of special issues devoted to topics of academic and educational interest, as well as contingent and emerging topics, in accordance with the editorial policies and thematic relevance defined by the Scientific and Editorial Committee.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides free and immediate access to its content, under the principle of making articles and other content types freely available to the public. We believe this supports greater global knowledge exchange. Publications are published under open-access licenses, specifically Creative Commons.
Statement of Originality
Authors must accept and sign the statement of originality available for download in the checklist.
Below, we share the template in case access to that document is broken or unavailable:
Journal Educación y Educadores
Statement of Originality
Through this communication, I certify that I am/we are the original author(s) of the work I am/we are submitting for possible publication in the journal Educación y Educadores, of Universidad de La Sabana, since its contents are the product of my/our direct intellectual contribution.
All data and references to previously published materials are duly identified with their respective credit and included in the bibliographic notes and citations highlighted as such and, where required, I/we have the proper authorizations from those who hold the economic rights.
Accordingly, I/we declare that all materials submitted are completely free of copyright restrictions and, therefore, I/we assume responsibility for any litigation or claim related to intellectual property rights, holding Universidad de La Sabana harmless from liability.
Furthermore, I/we declare that this article is unpublished and that I/we have not submitted it to another serial publication for its respective evaluation and subsequent publication. I/we also mark here with an X if the manuscript I am/we are submitting was derived from:
- ( ) Master’s thesis
- ( ) Doctoral dissertation
If any of the options have been marked, I/we will include the appropriate information on the source text as a footnote within the article.
If the article “<Name of the article / name of the paper / nome do artigo>” is approved for publication:
- As author(s) and copyright holder(s), I/we hereby authorize Universidad de La Sabana, without time limitation, to include said text in the journal Educación y Educadores, so that it may reproduce, edit, distribute, exhibit, and communicate it in the country and abroad through print, electronic media, CD-ROM, the Internet, in full text, or any other known or future medium.
- I/we acknowledge the journal’s requirements and attach to this letter the following essential data for the publication of my/our manuscript:
- ORCID of all authors of the article.
- Institutional email address of all authors of the article or only of the corresponding author.
- If the research was funded: all data of the funding institution and its respective identification number.
- According to the journal’s referencing standards: the official name(s) in the academic-scientific world to which my/our citations are attributed. This is intended to standardize my/our name(s) across all databases and promote my/our citation. For example, according to the journal’s standards, Bruna Ruoso da Silva Neutzling is: da Silva, B. R.; Maria del Carmen Solano-Ruiz is: Solano-Ruiz, M. C.
In witness whereof, this statement is signed on the __ day of the month of _________ of the year ____, in the city of __________.
- Full name and surname(s) of author 1
- Abbreviated name as cited in citable documents
- Institutional email address
- ORCID number
- Funding, if applicable
- Shipping details, if applicable
Indexing and Visibility
Statement of Ethics and Good Conduct
In order to ensure international ethical standards for scientific publications, Educación y Educadores has an Ethics Committee that operates according to the guidelines of the Research Office of Universidad de La Sabana and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). This committee is composed of the journal’s editor, the editorial manager, and a representative of the Scientific and Editorial Committee.
Conflict of Interest
If a conflict of interest arises at any time during the editorial process, the case will be handled by the Ethics Committee, which will resolve the impasse.
When the author identifies a conflict of interest before starting the process, they must promptly inform the journal so that the situation can be decided.
The reviewer must inform the Editorial Committee of any conflict of interest due to financial relationship, institutional affiliation, or acquaintance with the authors of the assigned document.
The Committee will not submit for review any article in which a conflict of interest is identified until the situation has been resolved. If the conflict of interest cannot be eliminated, the article will be withdrawn from the editorial process.
Right of Reproduction
The journal Educación y Educadores holds the right of reproduction of the articles it publishes. Any for-profit reproduction of published articles must have the express approval of the journal’s editor or its Editorial Committee.
Erratum
If a significant error is found in the publication, the corresponding author, together with the Editorial Committee, must cooperate in the publication of an erratum or, if applicable, consider withdrawing the article.
Journal Policies in Cases of Plagiarism
All material submitted through the OJS system will only be used with the express consent of the authors.
The author must ensure that all citations included in the text have the corresponding academic credit.
If plagiarism is identified in the article, it will be withdrawn from the editorial process, and a copy will be sent to the corresponding entity so that the relevant judicial process may proceed.
Ethical Standards for Authors
Authors must guarantee that the information in their manuscript is truthful and contains all the evidence supporting the data and analyses presented in the document. It must also be guaranteed that all those who have made significant contributions appear as authors.
Authors must sign the statement of originality, in which they also certify that all information is properly cited.
Authors must guarantee that the text has not been published in another journal or in any other medium for the dissemination of academic content. This article must not infringe the copyright or property rights of any person or entity.
Ethical Standards for Reviewers
All reviewers undertake to maintain absolute confidentiality regarding the information contained in the procedures and content submitted by the journal. They must refrain from communicating to third parties, disclosing, or publishing partial or total information from the documents they have agreed to review, or from any use other than that requested by the journal.
The duty of confidentiality shall not cease upon completion of the evaluation process. The work may only be cited once it has been published, making proper use of citation standards.
The reviewer must indicate their willingness to comply with the review process within the time and rigor required by the journal.
Reviewers undertake to issue objective, respectful assessments with due academic support; therefore, they must not accept any academic product if they do not feel qualified to review it.
Ethical Standards for the Committee
The Editorial Committee undertakes to keep the affiliation and identity of authors and reviewers anonymous. It will also not disclose the content of articles before their publication.
The Scientific and Editorial Committee is responsible for accepting the articles to be published, considering the journal’s editorial parameters and the opinion of peer reviewers.
The journal’s Ethics Committee will decide any ethical conflict based on the parameters of COPE.
Ethical Standards for Editors
It is the editor’s responsibility to ensure the quality and transparency of the editorial process, as well as compliance with all parameters, obligations, rights, and duties of the different members and participants of the journal in its various categories.
Content Permanence
CrossMark Policies
What is CrossMark?
An initiative of Crossref identified by the brand’s badge icon:
This methodology makes it possible to assure readers whether the version they are reading is the most up to date, provided that the CrossMark logo appears in the publication. In that case, they would need to click on the logo to access the version history. In this history, they will find information concerning significant or major changes made to the versions of the published document. Additionally, it is directly linked to the DOI of what we publish, which ensures the stability and permanence of updates over time.
In this journal, we upload publicly available PDFs in two instances:
- When the editorial process ends, with approval from the author and the editorial team.
- When final modifications are made to that PDF, as a result of an art review intended more for printing.
Placing the CrossMark icon commits and obligates our journal to notify and keep anyone updated about any change that occurs in an article.
What types of changes and updates are part of the version history in CrossMark?
- Addendum: secondary documents that provide additional information about what has been published. They largely present additional results. An explanation will be provided for the added content and access to it.
- Corrections: new versions with minor changes that do not affect the meaning of the text but are related to typographical and similar errors. Notice will be given of the version update due to modifications of this type.
- Duplicates: if documents are discovered that have already been published elsewhere or if a document is republished, whether due to technical errors or operational accidents. A public clarification will be made regarding the case, the necessary files will be modified, and the CrossMark versions will be updated.
- Errata: articles in which, after digital or physical publication, errors are reported in the available version and those errors are significant in terms of the meaning of the writing, images, tables, graphs, bibliographic references, etc. The erratum will be specifically mentioned and corrected for the new version.
- Corrigendum: cases in which the author of the published article reports errata; the correction and what was corrected will be mentioned.
- Removal: at the request of the party involved and authorized to do so, all available content and files are removed. Only the article’s citation information and an explanation of why will remain, both on the article page and in the different means of access to the content.
- Retraction: at the request of the party involved and authorized to do so, a text announcing the retraction will be placed in all means of access to the article provided by the journal and, when applicable, a note from the involved party regarding what is being retracted. The stipulated texts and the note are kept on the article metadata page. The title will change to “Retraction: <article title>”; the PDF will be left with a watermark on all pages announcing the retraction. The same applies to the rest of the versions in the possible reading formats the journal may have, such as HTML, XML, ePub, etc. For further details on the COPE policies we follow, click here.
Sources of Income or Funding
The journal is fully funded by Universidad de La Sabana.
It does not receive advertising and does not have a subscription model.
CRediT Authorship Statement
CRediT, the Contributor Roles Taxonomy, aims to recognize the individual contribution each author makes to a submitted manuscript. This seeks to reduce in advance authorship disputes that may occur during the journal’s editorial process.
It also prevents an author from being added at any point if they had not been referenced beforehand, since the journal will understand that, through this statement, all the authors who participated in the preparation of the manuscript are being listed.
Through CRediT, authors may provide a detailed description of the type of contribution they made to the manuscript to be published and, at the same time, declare it for the clarity of the journal’s editorial team.
Who is responsible for providing the detailed information?
Through Open Journal Systems (OJS), the author whose user account made the submission is understood to be the corresponding author (CA). The CA is responsible for submitting all final information in a PDF file together with all files that are part of the submission.
Which categories does CRediT recognize?
There are fourteen (14) different categories, and each author may have one or more:
- Conceptualization: ideas; formulation or evolution of the overall research goals and aims.
- Methodology: development or design of methodology; creation of models.
- Software: programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
- Validation: verification, whether as part of the activity or separately, of the replication/reproducibility of results, experiments, and other research outputs.
- Formal analysis: application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
- Investigation: conducting the research process, specifically performing experiments or collecting data/evidence.
- Resources: provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
- Data curation: management activities to annotate, produce metadata, clean, and maintain research data, including software code when necessary for interpreting the data, for initial use and subsequent reuse.
- Writing - Original draft: preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft, including substantive translation.
- Writing - Review and editing: preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision, including pre- or post-publication stages.
- Visualization: preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically data visualization/presentation.
- Supervision: leadership responsibility and supervision in the planning and execution of the research activity, including mentorship external to the core team.
- Project administration: management and coordination of the planning and execution of the research activity.
- Funding acquisition: acquisition of financial support for the project that led to this publication.
Example of Statement Text
Sergio Roncallo-Dow: investigation, methodology, writing - original draft; Nicolás Mejía-Torres: formal analysis, data curation, visualization, resources; Lilu Dallas: writing - review and editing, project administration.
Policy on Ethical Commitment and Use of Artificial Intelligence
The journal maintains a firm commitment to publication ethics, academic integrity, and transparency in all phases of the publication process for any document type submitted to and processed by the scientific journals of Universidad de La Sabana. In accordance with resolved cases and the guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) forum, we have adopted an explicit policy on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the editorial, review, and scientific writing processes.
We recognize that AI tools can provide support in tasks such as grammar review, textual analysis, information structuring, or data analysis suggestions. We promote responsible use, always relying on the authors’ own critical thinking principles.
The journal does not accept manuscripts in which writing or analysis has been completely delegated to AI systems. In addition, we require authors to clearly, explicitly, and transparently declare any significant use of these tools.
This commitment reflects our mission to preserve the reliability of published knowledge and to ensure that each scientific contribution meets the highest standards of quality and ethics.
Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence by the Journal
The journal publicly declares that it uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support certain tasks in the editorial and dissemination process, in keeping with its commitment to transparency, scientific integrity, and editorial efficiency.
Institutional Use of AI
Our editorial team uses AI systems, including language models such as ChatGPT, to support processes such as:
- Writing and improving communications with authors, reviewers, and collaborators, such as informational messages or reminders.
- Organization, normalization, and standardization of data for publication metadata, such as author names, affiliations, ORCID, keywords, among others.
- Suggestions of keywords in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, based on disciplinary thesauri and analysis of article content.
- Assistance in generating brief descriptions or texts for promoting content through institutional channels.
- Production of support materials such as automated podcasts based on scientific articles, using AI-generated speech synthesis tools.
Transparency in Derived Products
When the journal generates derived content, such as podcasts, audio summaries, images, or social media posts involving the use of generative AI, it will expressly state that such content has been produced with the support of these technologies. This statement will be included on the website, in the content description, or in the corresponding promotional material.
Limitations and Human Oversight
In all cases, AI is used as a complementary tool, under the supervision and editing of members of the editorial team. No content is published or disseminated without human review to ensure its fidelity, relevance, and quality.
This policy is framed within the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and it will be reviewed periodically to adapt to the evolution of these technologies and to the needs of the academic community.
Request, Complaint, Claim, Congratulations, or Thanks Channel
Although journals have their OJS, where all submission correspondence is expected to be managed, it is the responsibility of Universidad de La Sabana to provide them with an institutional space called “Contact us: request, complaint, claim, congratulations, or thanks channel” to contact this University-owned system.
