The call for submissions is now open for original articles related to the special issue "Community Education Today: International Perspectives" is open

The call for submissions is now open for original articles related to the special issue "Community Education Today: International Perspectives", coordinated by Professors Segundo Quintriqueo Quilaqueo (Catholic University of Temuco, Chile), Gerardo Muñoz Troncoso (Austral University of Chile), and Miquel Àngel Essomba Gelabert (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), is open.

Community education emerges as an alternative pedagogical framework to respond to current challenges in both formal and informal education. On the one hand, community education can represent a decisive commitment to opening the school to its community environment, establishing alliances and partnerships for the development of its educational project. On the other hand, community education can also structure educational proposals that emerge in a specific social environment and meet the needs associated with lifelong learning specific to a community.

The framework of community education encompasses a diverse set of methodological strategies: learning communities, participatory action research processes within education, the proposal for educating cities, service-learning experiences, among others. Depending on the social and political context, this methodological translation takes diverse forms that seek to adapt to the requirements of the spaces, the participants, and the times in which they occur.

Having left behind the era in which community education was restricted to the education of rural populations in South America, or to compensatory education in Anglo-Saxon contexts, it is an opportune moment to analyze current developments in community education from an international perspective.

This monograph aims to compile various recent studies within the framework of community education, providing a broad and up-to-date range of the latest trends and emerging research issues. With these contributions, we hope to foster academic debate that illustrates the reality of community education today and how to advance the construction of its theoretical and methodological corpus.

See the authors’ guidelines to know the formal requirements that the article must meet.

Deadline for receiving original articles is 08/31/2025 (articles after the deadline will not be accepted).