EDITORIAL POLICY

NAME OF THE PUBLICATION

«Педагогический диалог», «Педагогикалық диалог», «Pedagogical dialogue» 

TYPE OF PUBLICATION

Information and methodical journal for educators of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Issued since 2012

OWNER

“Center of Excellence” private entity

REGISTRATION

08/06/2012

Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan,

Committee of Information and Archives. Certificate of registration of a periodical “Педагогический диалог”, “Педагогикалық диалог”, “Pedagogical Dialogue” №12804-Ж

ISSN CODE

28/06/2013

National State Book Chamber, ISSN National Centre.

The journal is registered in the International Centre for the registration of serial publications ISSN (UNESCO, Paris, France), international ISSN number 2308–7668.

(ISO 3297–98 “Information and documentation. International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)” International Standard GOST 7.56-2002 “International Standard Serial Numbering”).

PUBLICATION LANGUAGE

Kazakh, Russian, English

PERIODICITY

quarterly

PRIMARY GOAL

Dissemination of ideas of the best international and Kazakhstani educational practices based on the results of modern pedagogical research.

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

• to develop a constant and sustained interest and demand for the journal in professional circles among the scientific and pedagogical community
• to cover current issues of educational development for the professional development of teachers and the formation of a scientific and methodological worldview
• provide scientific-methodical and methodological support to teachers through publications
• create an environment of openness and accessibility for a broad presentation of the results of pedagogical research

TARGET AUDIENCE

scholars, researchers, education experts, methodologists, teachers of pre-school, secondary, technical and professional, higher and postgraduate and additional educational organizations.

STRUCTURE OF THE PUBLICATION

MAIN SECTIONS:

1. “Theory and practice of modern education” (scientific and methodological section):

• leadership and management in education
• international cooperation
• digital education
• teachers’ professional development
• research
• teaching and learning in school
• student education and well-being
• other aspects of the education system

2.         “Research in practice”

Publications reflecting the results of Action Research (own practice research) and Lesson study conducted by teachers of educational organizations.

3. Information leaflets, advertisements, announcements.

REVIEWING

Organization of reviewing

A review is an evaluative analysis of a scientific, scientific and methodical article submitted for publication in the journal. The review is mainly an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the material, a brief reproduction of the author’s views and a scientifically substantiated reviewer’s attitude to the main ideas of the author and their interpretation following the reviewer’s beliefs.

The review is obligatory as the main document of the expertise conducted by the editorial board to determine whether the material corresponds to the scientific and thematic orientation of the journal.

The journal “Pedagogical Dialogue” accepts a one-sided “blind” review (the author does not know the name of the reviewer).

The reviewer is guided by the code of ethics of scientific publications: confidentiality, objectivity, impartiality, clarity and reasonableness of their opinion and observance of the principle of recognition of primary sources.

The main criteria for evaluating an article manuscript are:

• relevance
• correspondence of the content to the stated topic
• scientific and professional style
• structured text and logical presentation of the thought
• compliance of the research methodology with the research results and conclusions
• reliability of the conclusions.

The form of the review is presented in Appendix.

The reviewer should determine the compliance of the material presented in the article with the profile and subject of the journal; briefly describe the problem the article deals with; assess the degree of relevance, originality and significance of the results obtained, compliance with modern achievements of scientific and theoretical thought, accessibility in terms of language, style, 

arrangement of material, clarity of tables, charts, figures and formulas; note the positive aspects as well as the drawbacks of the article.

In addition to the content of the material, the quality of the presentation will be assessed as well: the volume of the article, availability and informativeness of the abstract and keywords in Kazakh, Russian and English and availability of the list of references and footnotes in the text.

The review will give recommendations on the advisability of publishing the submitted article or on the need to improve it on the basis of the presented remarks.

If the review contains an indication of the need for revisions and corrections, the manager sends the text of the review to the author with a proposal to take them into account in the preparation of a new version of the article. The article revised by the author is re-submitted for review and consideration in the general order.

The article that is not recommended for publication by the reviewer will not be accepted for reconsideration.

The period of reviewing in each case should be sufficient for a qualitative analysis of the submitted material and prompt publication of the article.

PUBLICATION ETHICS

The editorial policy of the journal is based on the traditional ethical principles of Kazakhstan’s scientific periodicals and supports the Code of Ethics of Scientific Publications, formulated by the Committee for Quality Assurance in the Sphere of Education of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

1. Editorial Board (Editors)

The editorial board is responsible for making the decision to publish, taking into account the current legal requirements regarding copyright, legality and plagiarism.

The editorial board evaluates the intellectual content of manuscripts regardless of the nationality, gender and citizenship of the authors.

The editorial board does not disclose information about the accepted manuscript to third parties, except for the authors, reviewers and scientific advisors, without the need to do so.

Unpublished data obtained from manuscripts submitted for review may not be used for any other purpose without the written consent of the author. Information or ideas obtained in the course of reviewing and related to possible advantages must be kept confidential.

Editors should inquire of the co-editor if there are conflicts of interest due to competitive, collaborative and other interactions and relationships with authors and possibly other organizations related to the manuscript.

The editors respond adequately to ethical concerns about the manuscripts reviewed or the material published. Such measures generally include interaction with the authors of the manuscript and allow for interaction with relevant organizations and research centers.

The Editorial Board has the right to independently:

• plan its activities within the framework of the themes, specialization and orientation of the journal approved by the Founder; decide on its content and artistic design;

• sign the number of the journal in the set, in print and for publication; in the prescribed manner to correspond with the readers of the journal, take into account their interests and suggestions.

  2. Reviewers

  Reviewing helps the editorial board make publication decisions and, through collaboration with authors, improve the quality of their work. Reviewing is a necessary link in formal scientific communications. The publisher shares the view that all scholars who wish to improve the content of the texts of their publications should make additions and changes to the texts in consultation with the reviewers.

  Any selected reviewer who feels insufficiently qualified to review a manuscript or who does not have enough time to complete the work quickly should notify the journal editorial board and ask whether to be excluded from the review process of the corresponding manuscript.

  Any manuscript received for review should be treated as a confidential document. This work should not be opened and discussed with any persons not authorized by the Editorial Board.

  The reviewer is obliged to give an objective assessment. Personal criticism of the author is unacceptable. Reviewers should express their opinions clearly and reasonably.

  Reviewers should identify significant published works relevant to the topic and not included in the bibliography of the manuscript. Any statement (observation, conclusion or argument) previously published and relevant to the topic should be bibliographically referenced in the manuscript. The reviewer should also draw the attention of the editorial board to finding significant similarities or overlaps between the manuscript under consideration and any other published work within the reviewer’s scientific competence.

  Unpublished data obtained from manuscripts submitted for review may not be used in personal research without the written consent of the author. Information or ideas obtained in the course of reviewing and related to possible benefits must be kept confidential and not used for personal gain.

  Reviewers should not participate in the review of manuscripts if there are conflicts of interest due to competitive, collaborative and other interactions and relationships with any of the authors, companies or other organizations related to the submitted work.

  The reviewer has the right to refuse to review an article sent to them, explaining the reasons for the refusal.

  3. Authors

  Authors should provide only thoroughly verified reliable results of original research and objective discussion of them.

  Scientific reviews and articles should be accurate and objective.

  Authors must submit original work to the editorial board, and if statements and/or works of other authors are used, citations and accurate bibliographic references must be arranged properly (according to the existing general rules).

  Plagiarism in all forms (from presenting someone else’s work as the author’s, copying or paraphrasing essential parts of someone else’s work (without 

  attribution) to claiming their own rights to the results of others' research) is regarded as unethical, unlawful actions.

  An author should not place as an original publication a manuscript describing the same research (or part of it) in more than one journal. Submission of identical manuscripts to several journals at the same time is a violation of ethics.

  In general, an author should not submit a previously published article to another journal for consideration.

  Authors have the right to reuse, republish, archive and distribute their articles after publication.

  Contributions by others to the author’s research should always be indicated in the form of references to scholarly sources that influenced the execution and results of the proposed work for publication. Data obtained privately, e.g., through conversation, correspondence or discussion with third parties, should not be used or presented without the written permission of the source. Information obtained from confidential sources, such as manuscript evaluations or grants, also may not be used without the written permission of the authors of the work related to confidential sources. Only persons who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the results of the study can be co-authors of the publication. Co-authors must read and approve the final version of the publication.

  If the work involves human subjects, the authors must ensure that the manuscript specifies that all stages of the research comply with the laws and regulations of the research organizations and are approved by the relevant authorities. The manuscript should clearly state that informed consent has been obtained from all human subjects. It is always necessary to ensure that privacy rights are respected.

  In case of detection of significant errors in the published works, the author must inform the editorial board in order to withdraw the publication as soon as possible or to correct the errors in time before the journal is published.

  4. Borrowing and plagiarism

  The editorial board of the journal “Pedagogical Dialogue” during the consideration of the article, checks the material using the Anti-Plagiarism system. In the case of numerous borrowings (more than 60%), the editorial board does not accept the work for publication.

  5. Preprints and postprints placement policy

  When submitting a manuscript to the editorial board, the author should confirm that the article has not been published or has not been accepted for publication in another scholarly journal.

  When citing articles printed in Pedagogical Dialogue, the publisher requests that references be made to the official website of the journal.

  Preprint is a draft of a manuscript or scientific article (abstract, conference, dissertation, etc.) that is submitted for peer review by the journal editorial board. 

Postprint – a scientific article that has passed the peer-review procedure and is officially published scientific material. A postprint includes both the author's manuscript of a scientific publication and the editorial work of the publisher – formatting and preparation of the manuscript for printing.

6. Legal basis of the editorial policy

The right of authorship belongs to the article authors. Exclusive rights to use the materials of the journal “Pedagogical Dialogue” belong to the PE “Center of Excellence” as the founder and publisher. Reprinting materials in whole or in part, undertaken for educational or research purposes, is possible only with reference to the output data of the journal with the obligatory indication of the copyright holder and the names of the authors of articles.

When creating new, creatively independent works on the basis of articles published in the journal, quoting or translating fragments of articles to cite them, it is necessary to refer to the original sources in compliance with the rules of citation.

7. Professional Code

Editorial staff members are guided by the following professional principles when preparing publications:

• to respect the privacy rights of the authors of publications.
• avoid illegal and unethical methods of obtaining information.
• be guided by the socio-cultural values of the target audience.
• to present different points of view when describing a problem situation.

The policy of the journal’s editorial board is based on the modern requirements for copyright, legality and plagiarism outlined in the law and the ethical principles supported by the community of leading scientific periodicals publishers.

Considering reviewing as the most important link in ensuring the exchange of scientific information, the editorial board imposes requirements on reviewers for confidentiality, objectivity, impartiality, clarity and argumentativeness of their opinion and observance of the principle of recognition of primary sources.

The editorial board expects the authors proposing their materials for publication in the journal to adhere to the following principles:

• relevance of the topic and scientific novelty of the research, originality of the research problem and applied research methods.
• weightiness of scientific conclusions and objective discussion of the research significance.
• provision of reliability of research and the results of scientific and experimental work.
• compliance with the information needs of the audience and genre requirements.
• accuracy of data presentation.
• the obligatory presence of bibliographic references to the works.

presentation as co-authors of all participants who made a significant contribution to the research.

The journal may publish advertising materials on advanced technologies and achievements in the field of education, informational messages about significant events and scientific conferences.

VOLUME OF THE JOURNAL

The total volume of one issue of the journal is 130 pages.

The contents of the sections are not strictly limited and may vary from issue to issue.

THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PRESENTING INFORMATION IN THE PUBLICATION

Relevance of the topic: information about events, processes, and phenomena significant for the current moment.

Relevance to the thematic focus of the journal: the journal has its own area of interest, within which it considers, reviews and publishes articles of each issue.

Analytical approach: emphasis on considering the current and prospective state of the selected problems.

Applied nature: orientation not only on fundamental data but also on the results of research, proven experimentally.

Transparency (openness): the submitted article should not be previously published, accepted or sent for review to another journal; the abstract of the article should reflect the main content of the whole article; the article should have a clear structure and logic; the authors of the article should refer to authoritative and reliable sources, follow the citation style of the journal.

Authoritativeness and credibility: the information provided will be evaluated by a professional audience of readers, so it must be quite correct.

Constructive presentation: discussion of problems based on facts and balanced opinions, as well as examples of constructive experience in solving problems in the process of training.

Author’s narrative: the publication does not allow reprints of material already published in other media.

Compliance with the requirements of the publication: materials should be prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Editorial Board.

Recognition of primary sources

Contributions by others to the author’s research should always be acknowledged in the form of references to scholarly sources that influenced the execution and results of the proposed work for publication. Data obtained privately, such as through conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, should not be used or presented without written permission from the primary source. Information obtained from confidential sources, such as manuscript evaluations or grants, also may not be used without the written permission of the authors of the work related to confidential sources.

Authorship of the publication

Only persons who have made a significant contribution to the conception of the study, its design, execution or interpretation of the results can be co-authors of the publication.

All significant contributors to the study must agree on the composition of the co-authorship team, and all co-authors must read and approve the final version of the publication.

FORMAT

Digital print 60х84/8

NUMBER OF SHEETS

130