Call for Papers for Volume 28
Welcome to the second call for papers from the new Canadian Journal for Environmental Education (CJEE) editorial team. Since its inception in 1996, when it was founded by the eminent Bob Jickling, CJEE has been known for promoting innovative, experimental, and trailblazing research. Aligning with those aspirations, we seek submissions that continue to expose assumptions, challenge methodological orthodoxies, further essential and existential debates, and offer imaginative possibilities for practice, pedagogy, and research. What fundamental beliefs in environmental education need to be challenged, adjusted, or updated? What perspectives have been overlooked? What are the possibilities for collaborating with more-than-humans in pedagogical practices and research? How might the challenges of the current moment usher in a new paradigm?
CJEE has also long published articles by leading researchers while also supporting newer thinkers, scholars, researchers, and educators as the field grows and deepens. Often at the forefront of change, the journal seeks to continue its rich history of opening space for diverse knowledges and the growing range of methods, for an expanding array of voices, and for a changing sense of what research/scholarship/educational practice can and needs to be. To best respond to the current challenges, we need a complexity of voices, robust and diverse visions, and dynamic practices and possibilities that are likely to shake up the “status quo”. CJEE aims to support and welcome these conversations. Help us push the envelope.
We are inviting submissions for two different strands. The first strand is an open call inviting articles from across the environmental education landscape.
The second strand is a call for articles related to questions, challenges, possibilities, and even impossibilities of change. After 30 years of supporting, furthering, challenging, and creating change, we here at CJEE are wondering …
- What is change and how does it happen?
- In working for change, what assumptions do we bring about causality, purpose, intention, participation, novelty and so on, and are they entangled leftovers of the very culture we want to change? If so, how to proceed?
- How can change be sustained?
- How do ecological, social, and cultural justice interrelate in bringing about change?
- Is change even possible? If not, then what?
- Is change even the right way to be thinking practically, pedagogically, theoretically about today’s crises?
- What is the role of environmental education theory, research or practice in responding to these questions?
Timeline for either strand
Calls for papers: May 20th, 2026
Manuscripts due: Nov. 1st, 2026
Publication in Volume 28: April 1st, 2027
Please review our author guidelines when preparing your submission. Submissions can be uploaded at https://cjee.lakeheadu.ca In your submission, please indicate the names of 3-4 potential reviewers for your paper. CJEE is actively seeking reviewers. Please consider becoming a reviewer for CJEE by emailing cjee_editors@sfu.ca
Please note that while we welcome geographically diverse submissions, we particularly encourage papers that are relevant and attentive to the Canadian context—itself a dynamic terrain woven into and through the global context.
CJEE Editorial Team:
Sean Blenkinsop (Simon Fraser University)
Estella Kuchta (Maynooth University)
Sarah Anderson (Simon Fraser University)
Elizabeth Boileau (University of Minnesota, Duluth)
Megan Tucker (Simon Fraser University)
Ramsey Affifi (University of Edinburgh)
Ellen Field (Lakehead University)
