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“Academic Studies. Series “Pedagogy”” is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that supports the policy of open access to scientific publications. The journal accepts articles meeting the following research areas:
1. Theoretical-methodological fundamentals of higher and general secondary education
2. Theory of education and training
3. Theory and methods of education
4. History of pedagogy
5. Comparative pedagogy
6. Education quality
7. Education development management
8. Methods of school teaching etc.
PUBLICATION CONDITIONS
Manuscripts that do not meet the requirements and do not present research findings are not accepted for publication. The editors reserve the right to proofread authors’ manuscripts. An author receives a decision of the Editorial Board via e-mail (“to publish”, “to improve”, or “to reject”).
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
To submit an article for Issue No. 2, 2026 by April 21, 2026 (including), it is necessary to complete the online author information form and send the article, prepared in accordance with the journal requirements, to the email: pedagogy@academstudies.volyn.ua
Submitted manuscripts are subject to editing, peer review, and plagiarism check.
If the article successfully passes peer review and is accepted for publication, the author will be provided with bank details for payment of the publication fee.
After making the payment, the author must send a scanned copy of the receipt to the editorial office.
An example of electronic files: Ivanenko_I.I._article, Ivanenko_I.I._payment.
PUBLICATION FEE
The publication fee is UAH 1,600 (up to 12 pages). Each extra page is charged at UAH 50. The publication fee covers the costs associated with the processing, peer review, and/or publication of the article.
The editorial board accepts individual articles submitted by postgraduate students enrolled in state-funded programs for publication free of charge, provided that the manuscripts are authored solely by the students (without co-authors), comply with the journal’s requirements, and adhere to the principles of academic integrity.
Along with the manuscript, postgraduate students enrolled in state-funded programs must submit a certificate issued the graduate studies department confirming their enrollment. The certificate must be signed by the head of the relevant department and bear the its official seal.
Authors may also order a printed copy of the journal. The cost of a printed copy is UAH 1,000 and is payable in addition to the publication fee.
Journal electronic version will be available on the website on May 27, 2026.
Authors who ordered a printed copy will receive it before June 27, 2026.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
The Editorial Board guarantees high-quality anonymous peer-review of articles and their check for plagiarism using StrikePlagiarism.com by the Polish company Plagiat.pl.
PROHIBITION TO REFER TO THE AGGRESSOR STATE’S SCHOLARLY PAPERS
It is prohibited citing and including in the reference list russian-language contributions published in any country, incl. papers written in other languages but published in russia and belarus.
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
1. It is accepted Ukrainian, English, Polish or Bulgarian articles, which have not been published or submitted in other journals (including electronic). No more than one article by the same author (co-author) may be published in the issue.
2. Manuscripts written in foreign languages shall not be translated from Ukrainian or Russian.
3. The Editorial Board evaluates the topicality of a submitted paper, its scientific novelty, statement of the basic material, conclusions and generalizations. Materials are checked for plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Editors reserve the right to reject a paper or send it back for improving.
4. Article text should be submitted in the electronic form (.doc and .docx). The file name should include the surname of at least one author: Kalinovska_article.
5. Unrevised manuscripts (including factual, stylistic or technical mistakes) are not accepted for consideration.
6. Peer-review is anonymous. The editorial staff does not send back rejected manuscripts.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR MANUSCRIPTS
1. Volume– up to 40 thousand of printed characters (including spaces).
2. Times New Roman, 14, line spacing – 1.5.
3. Paragraph indention – 1.25 сm.
4. Text alignment – justification.
MANUSCRIPT STRUCTURE
1. A title and information about an author (authors)
The first line: UDC – at the left, in bold face.
One line below: author’s initials and surname – in bold CAPITALS; the next line: affiliation (full official name of an educational institution or establishment), city, country, e-mail, ORCID.
One line below: an article’s title is centered in bold CAPITALS.
Sample:
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УДК 378.091 О. В. КАЛИНОВСЬКА КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНА МОДЕЛЬ ПРОФЕСІЙНОЇ ПІДГОТОВКИ МАЙБУТНІХ УЧИТЕЛІВ ПОЧАТКОВОЇ ШКОЛИ ДО ІННОВАЦІЙНОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ |
2. Abstracts and keywords
Ukrainian abstract is one line below the title. Abstract volume – at least 1800 characters. The next line includes keywords (5 – 7 words).
At the end of the article, after Literature and Reference (Sources if any), an author indicates the following in English:
– at the left, author’s initials and surname (meeting fixed transliteration rules or a foreign travel passport) – in bold CAPITALS; the next line: affiliation (full official name of an educational institution or establishment), city, country, e-mail, ORCID;
– one line below: the article’s title is centered in bold CAPITALS;
– abstract (at least 1800 printing characters and keywords (5-7 words)) is one line below.
The number of keywords should be the same in Ukrainian and English abstracts, and the order should be kept (if grammatical features don’t require other).
Sample:
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O. M. KALYNOVSKA THE CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL TRAINING TO CONDUCT INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES |
3. Article body consists of introduction (problem statement, analysis of previous research related to the present paper), presentation of the basic material, results and conclusions.
4. After article text (keeping one-line spacing between the elements):
– LITERATURE;
– REFERENCES;
– SOURCES (if any).
If an article is written in a foreign language, an author should adhere to the following structure: 1) personal information; 2) article title; 3) abstract and keywords in the foreign language; 4) text; 5) REFERENCES and SOURCES (if any); 6) in Ukrainian: personal information, article title, abstract and keywords.
RULES FOR TEXT DESIGN
Text should be executed according to the rules of the current orthography, except illustrative material which can be conveyed as it stands in the original.
Initials and surname should be separated by a no-break space (simultaneous pushing of Ctrl + Shift + space) (e. g.: O. B. Lukianenko, O. O. Tytarenko).
Text can contain tables, graphics, figures, diagrams etc. Figures (Word) should be grouped as one graphic object. All graphic files should be given in color and separately from the text in the relevant format, such as *.jpg.
Citations should be indicated through quotation marks. E.g.: О. Савченко зазначає: «Одночасно необхідно внести у європейську скарбницю свої, українські самобутні національні і загальнолюдські культурні, освітні, технологічні цінності» [Савченко : 72].
If a quote has quotation marks inside, the following type of marks are used: «Ця повість побачила світ у виданні ‟Сучасні записки”».
Words’ meaning (research of dialectic, etymological focus etc.) is rendered through simple (semantic) quotes ‛...’ (e. g.: нетяга ‛людина без тяглової худоби’).
It is essential to differentiate dash (–) and hyphen (-). E.g.: «Інформальна освіта – це...», 5–10 с., 2005–2006 рр., Х–ХІ ст. (for numerical designation), but: семінар-практикум, не сьогодні-завтра.
References are indicated in the square brackets within the text: author’s surname (or first word of a source’s title), publication year (if there are references to different works of the author), colon (one space before it), number (numbers) of a page. For example: [Булаховський]; [Семиколєнова : 31]; [Жайворонок 2018 : 55–56]; [Колесник 2005а : 4–5; Колесник 2005б : 31]; [Слов’янський : 265]; [Lakoff : 105].
REQUIREMENTS FOR LITERATURE
1. Sources shall be presented in alphabetical order (first Cyrillic, then Latin, and others). The bibliographic list is executed according to DSTU 8302: 2015. English-language version of the bibliography is provided following the international bibliographic standard APA 6th Referencing Style.
2. The list of literature references should include new sources (for the last 3 years) and consist of 30 % of scientific works published in journals included in Scopus or Web of Science.
3. In the text, there should be a minimum of one reference of every source indicated in the list.
4. Self-citation is allowed, but it shouldn’t exceed 10 % of the overall number of literature sources.
5. To ensure the quality of scientific citations, the DOI of each source (if available) must be provided in the list of references.