CALL FOR PAPERS

General Guidelines | Review Process
Future Themes

General Guidelines

As an open-access electronic journal for scholars, practitioners and students of multicultural education, Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education (EMME) publishes a variety of writings:  (1) original (and occasionally reprint) scholarly articles, (2) practitioner essays, (3) instructional ideas, and (4) reviews of visual arts, professional and juvenile books, and multimedia resources.  Reviews are generally solicited. 

Since the inception of the publication in 1999 each issue has focused on a particular theme of multicultural education (go to http://www.eastern.edu/publications/emme/previous.html for back issues).  Any paper broadly related to multicultural issues is considered for publication in the Open Forum section.   Currently over 5,000 readers visit the journal site each month from the United States and other countries.  Since 1999 readers from over 48 different countries have freely accessed EMME.  

Please adhere to the following guidelines for submission:

1.   Submissions must be consistent with the styles outlined in the most recent edition of Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

2.   The following word limits are recommended for your manuscript:  3,500 for an original scholarly paper and a practitioner essay and 2,000 for an instructional idea.

3.   An abstract of 50-75 words should be included.

4.   Provide your contact information by submitting the Author Form to emme@eastern.edu attached as an MS Word document.

5.   Provide your submission materials (your manuscript, including the abstract) via email to emme@eastern.edu as  an MS Word attachment using the EMME submission template. To use this template, please save it to your hard drive (either by opposite-clicking on the link and then choosing "Save Target As..." or by double-clicking on the link to open it then going to the File menu and choosing "Save As..."), then pasting the text of your submission in it as appropriate. More detailed information on using the template is provided within the template itself. If you have any questions, please email emme@eastern.edu.

6.   To reprint a copyrighted text as an entirety or beyond 500 words (the APA guidelines) the author must first send a request to EMME and secure written permission to reprint from the copyright holder.  EMME will not be responsible for the cost incurred as a result of the reprint permission.  EMME will publish reprints only pertaining to issue themes and reserve the right to decline the request. Any reprint submission should follow the same guidelines as original manuscripts.     

Review Process 

EMME will become officially peer-reviewed as of January 2007. We are currently recruiting reviewers in preparation for subsequent issues. In the meantime, each submission will undergo several steps of in-house, and occasionally external, review before it is accepted for publication.  It is not uncommon that revisions are requested.  Revision of a manuscript does not guarantee publication.  All editorial communication is conducted via email, which usually expedites the publication process.  It generally takes less than six months before an accepted manuscript is published.

Future Themes

2006 Fall (Vol. 8, No. 2)

Theme: Multicultural Education in Higher Education
Guest Editor: Dr. Melanie Bush from Adelphi University
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2006
Publication Date: December 31. 2006

This is the last issue of EMME.
Back issues of EMME will continue to be available from the same URL.

International Journal of Multicultural Education (IJME), a peer-review online journal, will succeed EMME.
(Check http://www.eastern.edu/ijme;
contact editors at ijme@eastern.edu
after December 19, 2006)

Over the last several decades significant changes have been made to curriculum within institutions of higher education in response to demands by traditionally marginalized communities for representation, inclusion and balance in perspective, content, pedagogy and program. Within the scope of the broad theme of "Multiculturalism in Higher Education," articles and instructional ideas may include, but not be limited to: narratives about the curricular transformation process, current status at particular institutions, analysis about where we stand today and commentary about the future, critical perspectives about the social and political context of multicultural education, efforts to increase faculty diversity, pedagogical strategies and practice, and research conducted about the current state of diversity in higher education and the implications. How does the study of and engagement in projects for social justice fit within the academic project? Articles related to academia in the United States and globally are welcome. 

If you would like to submit a paper to EMME on this theme, please click here for more details. 

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