Trends and Concerns in Education is online journal dedicated to research and investigations in educational field. It is a peer reviewed interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary multilingual online journal scheduled to appear annually and serves as a means for innovative information exchange in the educational and research forum. It maintains its well respected core strength in all the major areas of education The Journal of Trends and Concerns in Education is committed to publishing articles that inform best practice in the education of students and their teachers. The mission of the Journal of Trends and Concerns in Education is to serve as a research forum for a diverse group of scholars invested in the preparation and continued support of teachers who can have a significant voice in discussions and decision-making process. Education is facing challenges. Our aim is to analyze current trends in education and respond critically to those by giving a platform to the budding aspirants. The Journal of Trends and Concerns in Education is the flagship journal featuring articles that advance the empirical, theoretical, and methodological understanding of education and learning. It publishes original peer-reviewed analyses that span the field of education research across all subfields and disciplines and all levels of analysis. It also encourages submissions across all levels of education throughout the life span and all forms of learning. The Journal of Trends and Concerns in Education reflects a wide range of perspectives, topics, contexts, and methods, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work.
Guru Nanak Dev College of Education with Elementary, Secondary and Higher Teacher Education components under one roof, aims to start an Open Access journal which provides free online access to their scholars as to enable them to explore a wide variety of research oriented contents which eventually help them to have insight into their focus and intensity to reach a particular conclusion. The writing process is also designed to bring short bursts on writings to inculcate the spirit of social efficiency among the students.
Professor J.N.Joshi Professor J.N.Joshi remained as Professor and Head of Department in Department of Education, P. U, Chandigarh for more than 20 years. He joined as a lecturer in 1963 and retired as Professor Emeritus from the same department. He was also at the distinguishing post of D.U.I (Dean of University Institute) in Punjab University. He also remained as Chairman of NCTE, NRC, Jaipur for 6 years. He is still holding the position of Chairman (Development and Communication Institution) in Punjab.
I have this great honour of being associated with this pioneer Education College as the Academic Head of this institution., Our team of highly qualified, enthusiastic, energetic and benevolent faculty members forms the academic life line of this institution. Prospective teachers enjoy the thrills of being taught by our faculty members with the strong backup support of the huge infrastructure, excellent academic facilities and the most modern sophisticated equipments. I warmly invite the aspiring scholars to contribute research based articles to make our journal successful We live today in a world that is so very different from the one we grew up in, the one we were educated in. The world today is changing at such an accelerated rate and we as educators need to pause and reflect on this entire system of Education. The aim of the journal Trends and Concerns in Education is to create awareness to match the advancement in the world. We pride ourselves to help them grow and develop into sensitive and responsible citizens of the next generation. Each issue of our journal will be a milestone that marks our growth and unleashes a wide spectrum of creative skills ranging from writing to editing and even in designing the journal. I congratulate the entire editorial team for their hard work and dedication in making this dream come true. The mission of the Journal of Trends and Concerns in Education is to serve as a research forum for a diverse group of scholars invested in the preparation and continuous support of teachers and scholars who can have a significant voice in discussions and decision-making process My special thanks to the contributors for perseverance, wisdom, responsibility, generosity, and a commitment to lifelong learning to the best of their ability in each and every sphere of life. Our motto to start this kind of high-level research based journal is to provide important source of information in the world. There are many electronic journals published on the INTERNET in many fields, but research based journals are still very rare and we are trying to assemble here information technology which can provide a competitive advantage for innovative products and services.
The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is a vital building piece in the improvement of an intelligible and regarded system of learning. It is an immediate impression of the nature of the work of the creators and the foundations that uphold them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is in this way significant to concur upon guidelines of needed moral conduct for all gatherings included in the act of publishing: the author, the editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society of society-owned or sponsored journals.
Data Fabrication and Falsification
Data fabrication and falsification means the researcher did not actually do the study, but made up data or results and had recorded or reported the fabricated information. Data falsification means the researcher did the experiment, but manipulated, changed, or omitted data or results from the research findings. This would lead to public distrust and less willing to provide funding support.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is deliberately using someone else’s language, ideas, or other original material without acknowledging its source and without giving them credit. Copying even one sentence from someone else’s manuscript, or even one of your own that has previously been published, without proper citation is considered plagiarism-use your own words instead.
Simultaneous Submission
Simultaneous submission occurs when a manuscript (or substantial sections from a manuscript) is submitted to a journal when it is already under consideration by another journal.
Duplicate Publication
Duplicate publication occurs when two or more papers, without full cross referencing, share essentially the same hypotheses, data, discussion points, and conclusions.
Redundant Publications
Redundant publications involve the inappropriate division of study outcomes into several articles, most often consequent to the desire to plump academic vitae.
Improper Author Contribution or Attribution
All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims. Don’t forget to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution, including students and laboratory technicians.
Citation Manipulation
Citation Manipulation is including excessive citations, in the submitted manuscript, that do not contribute to the scholarly content of the article and have been included solely for the purpose of increasing citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal. This leads to misrepresenting the importance of the specific work and journal in which it appears and is thus a form of scientific misconduct.
In the event that there are documented violations of any of the above mentioned policies in any journal, regardless of whether or not the violations occurred in a journal published by GNDCOE, Trends and concerns in Education, the following sanctions will be applied:
Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript.
Immediate rejection of every other manuscript submitted to any journal published by GNDCOE, Trends and concerns in Education, by any of the authors of the infringing manuscript.
Prohibition against all of the authors for any new submissions to any journal published by GNDCOE, Trends and concerns in Education,, either individually or in combination with other authors of the infringing manuscript, as well as in combination with any other authors. Prohibition against all of the authors from serving on the Editorial Board of any journal published by GNDCOE, Trends and concerns in Education, In cases where the violations of the above policies are found to be particularly egregious, the publisher reserves the right to take additional measures beyond those described above.
Duties of Authors
Publication fee will have to paid after acceptance of the article.
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All papers submitted to the Trends and Concerns in Education are peer-reviewed according to the following procedure:
Initial review:
Chief Editor evaluates each paper to determine if its topic and content meets the submission criteria of Trends and Concerns in Education Papers that do not meet minimum criteria are returned to the authors within one day of receipt. This is in the best interest of the authors who could then decide to either correct the problems or to submit the paper to a more appropriate venue, avoiding delays from a lengthy review process that would nonetheless lead to rejection.
Peer review:
All submitted papers will undergo a full double-blind national refereeing process in which: Submitted articles are sent to the reviewers.
Papers that pass the initial review are assigned to an Associate Editor, who selects several referees based on their expertise in that particular field. Each paper is reviewed by at least two referees under a double-blind peer review process, where both the referees and the authors are kept anonymous. Peer reviewers read the article and provide feedback to the editor based on its originality, soundness of methodology, impact to design research, and relevance to design practices. After collecting the referees’ review reports, the Associate Editor makes a recommendation on the acceptability of the paper to the Chief Editor.
Recommendation:
Based on the referees’ comments and the Associate Editor’s recommendation, the Chief Editor makes a final decision on the acceptability of the paper and If an article finally meets editorial and peer standard, he communicates to the authors with the decision, along with referees’ reports. The final decision can be “Strongly Accepted “, “Marginally Accepted “, “Accepted with Changes “, “Revision Required “, or “Rejected”. A revised paper should be re-submitted within 10 days of the decision. It will usually be returned to the original referees for evaluation.
All papers are referred and the Chief Editor reserves the right to refuse any typescript whether on invitation or otherwise to make suggestion and/or modifications before publication.
Abstract
Please send extended abstracts (500–1000 words) by email with subject field The abstract should be less than 1 A4 page, 11pt Times New Roman, preceded by “Abstract” in bold + italic. Format Authors are asked to study the following instructions before preparation of abstracts.
Paper Size A4 (21.0 x 29.7 cm), and NOT US letter.
Margins Type within the dimensions of 1 inch (2.54 cm) margins top/bottom and left/right.
Line Spacing 1.5 line spacing. No indentation.
Justification Full justification.
Page Numbering Pages are not to be numbered.
Title: The abstract title should be in Title Case (upper and lower case), centered in Times New Roman, capital, bold font size 12 point. There should be a single spacing between the title and the authors with 3pt para space.
Authors
Author(s) name(s) should be typed in Title Case, centered in Times New Roman, font size 11 point.
First name, middle initial(s), followed by the surname, should be used to identify authors (eg. Benjamin L. Smith). Underline the name of the Presenting Author. All affiliations should follow the authors‟ name in italics, font size 10 point. If the authors come from more than one affiliation, superscript numbers should be used to indicate the correct affiliation. Each author should indicate institute, city, state and contact number. Body Text Formatting: Submissions are limited to 2, A4 pages including tables, figures and references.
Page Numbers
Do not include headers, footers or page numbers. The body text of the paper will contain headings, pictures, diagrams, tables, figures, formulae and other relevant information. The section headings should be Times New Roman 12point bold. Body text should be in Times New Roman point 12 normal Equations should be centered and numbered consecutively with equation numbers in parentheses flush with the right margin, as in (1). A spacing of 3pt between body text and equations is desirable.
Figures
Colored or Black and white and grayscale figures (diagrams and photographs) and tables can be included anywhere in the text other than the title, author list or affiliation list. Figures should be numbered consecutively from Fig. 1 onwards. Tables should be numbered Table 1 onwards. The captions are Times New Roman 12-point italic. Ensure figures and tables are within the printable area of
Making a Reference
References in the text can be made to literature listed in the “reference” section at the end by numbering the literature with numbers in superscript.1The references are incremented in sequence of appearance in the text. Repeated reference to the same literature can be made using the same reference number.1In this case, the reference number will be incremented on the next new literature cited.2 References are Times New Roman 9-point font. The format for references should be: name of authors (initials of all names then family name, authors are separated by commas), Title of book or journal name in italic, Vol. Number in bold, pp. numbers, and year in (brackets). Submissions. Authors are asked to submit an e-mail of paper on (email address……). A word template (Call for Papers Guidelines & Template.doc) implementing the style guidelines are provided on the same website.
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