CALL FOR PAPERS - „Paidia and Literature” 2023, 5th release
Down to Earth
We invite you to send your articles for the 5th release of “Paidia and Literature” dedicated to “down-to-earth”. We count on your creative recognition of this metaphor. Please keep in mind the contexts of environmental humanities, biohumanities, phytohumanities, geopoetics, geological turn, necrohumanities, an environmental history of the Holocaust, new animism, new materialisms, new vitalism, non-anthropocentric pedagogy and green competences in reading and writing.
We wish to see your interpretations in the form of texts of culture addressed to young audiences, such as literature, movies, theatre, illustrations, posters, video games, popular science publications, pedagogy practices, and widely understood languages as a whole.
Topic suggestions:
– landscape as a creation of nature-culture;
– portrayals of Earth in culture;
– portrayals of natural disasters and contamination of Earth and soil as a result of humankind’s actions;
– reinterpretations of metaphors “rooting”, “rooting out”, and “overgrowth”;
– wastelands;
– chthonic narration;
– earth as the source and conclusion, the space of reconstruction and change;
– earth reading (biocommunity, a community of animate and inanimate matter);
– portrayals of inanimate matter (soil, rock, sand, concrete)
– Earth and soil as an ecosystem;
– self-agency and networking of matter;
– self-agency of Earth;
– interdisciplinary education in the interest of Earth;
– young people’s actions in aid of Earth;
– field education;
– museums and exhibitions of natural history addressed to young audiences;
– outdoor pedagogy.
“Varia” and “From the world” sections are planned for the new release of “Paidia and Literature”.
We invite You to consider indicated problems and submit article proposals by February 15th, 2023. We are waiting for the texts up to March 15th, 2023.
Please send your topics and articles to https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/pl.
In case of any questions or technical difficulties, please contact us at pil.czasopismo@us.edu.pl
Submitted articles will be judged by the editorial office of the magazine. Final acceptance of publication is determined by two independent viewers (double-blind peer review).
As a result of an evaluation conducted in 2021, the magazine received a score of 20 points and it is included on the list of scored magazines of the Ministry of Education and Science. The magazine is indexed in the following databases: ARIANTA, BASE, Bibliotekanauki.pl, CEJSH, CEEOL, DOAJ, EBSCO, ERIH+, Google Scholar, ICI World of Journals, PBN, Most Wiedzy, MLA International Bibliography.
