About the Journal

Focus and scope

Revista Panamericana de Pedagogía. Saberes y quehaceres del pedagogo, is a scientific, biannuall, indexed and double-blind peer reviewed journal. It is edited since 2000 by the Escuela de Pedagogía of Universidad Panamericana, campus Mexico City. It publishes specialized and unpublished contributions, both national and international, that may contribute to the advance in the knowledge of the field of education and pedagogy through the study of paradigms, scopes, theories, models and educational expressions. The topics centered in the following issues are particularly relevant:

1) Educational theory and thought, concerning the critical study of human formation, from the perspective of the different schools of thought that may philosophically, historically, psychologically and sociologically base this critical study.

2) Educational actors, processes and institutions referring to the analysis of problems related to diverse educational systems and subsystems., as well as other social spaces interrelated to education.

The journal has a biannual periodicity (January and July). Since it’s 31st. number, the journal is only published in the digital format.

Types of contributions

The Section <<Knowledges>> receives papers that may be reflections and dissertations  on the educational thought.

Section <<To do´s>> receives papers on research from perspectives and designs that may  involve field work with qualitative, quantitative or mixed scopes.

Section <<Notes>> receives reflections on the teaching work and classroom life.

Section <<Critical Book Reviews>> accepts texts that describe books from the pedagogical and education field, that may be no more than 3 years old since their publication. 

Indexing

The journal Revista Panamericana de Pedagogía. «Saberes y Quehaceres del Pedagogo», is indexed in the data bases of the Regional System of online information for scientific journals for Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal, (Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, El Caribe, España y Portugal) (LATINDEX); Latinamerican Quotes in Social sciences and Humanities (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) (CLASE); Journal Index on Higher education and educational Research (Índice de Revistas sobre Educación Superior e Investigación Educativa) (IRESIE); Elton B. Stephens Company (EBSCO),  Alert Diffusion on the Web  (Difusión de Alertas en la Red) (DIALNET), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and, Google Scholar.

In order to preserve the texts of the Journal, as well as sharing them with the mentioned indexers, these texts are preserved in Scripta (https://scripta.up.edu.mx/) the institutional repository of Universidad Panamericana.

Open access policy

This journal grants an immediate open access to its content, based on the principle upon which offering the public a free  open access to research helps to a major global knowledge exchange.

 Code of Ethics

It is considered to be among the good practices of research and the professional ethics of research that the authors of Revista Panamericana de Pedagogía. Saberes y quehaceres del pedagogo, must have into consideration these aspects:

  1. The text must be unpublished. Texts previously sent to the journal or that are currently under review in other journals will not be accepted.
  2. The text must explicitly include the research sources from which any information is extracted. The list of sources must include their complete data. DOI number and URL of sources must be given when available. 
  3. Every paper will be submitted to an anti plagiarism software check.
  4. The author or authors of the paper must be acquainted and must agree with the copyright policy. This is, in case of the publication of  the paper this supposes the yielding of the copyright to  the Universidad Panamericana, which reserves the right to distribute the published version of the paper, or its review, on the Internet, according to the current laws. The journal distributes its articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
  5. The editorial staff of the journal commits itself to manage the received papers for its possible publication in a just, impartial and confidential way.
  6. The sent papers that meet the mentioned requirements in the “Instructions for authors section” will be submitted to a double-blind peer reviewed process, in which anonymity among authors and reviewers will be kept. Critical reviews will not be submitted to a double-blind peer reviewed process, but will be considered by the editorial staff. 
  7. The final publishing decision will be communicated to the authors and is not appealable. The final publishing decision may be: publishable, publishable with minor corrections, publishable with major corrections, and not publishable. In the case of needed  corrections, these must be given back in a two weeks time.