About Journal

About the Journal:

Biannual Journal of Higher Education Curriculum Studies was introduced and published by the collective efforts of curriculum and higher education experts with the support of the Iranian Curriculum Studies Association. This journal seeks to address issues and challenges of the curriculum in the higher education environment and specialized thinking and practice in the curriculum, transcend the rea of unified answers to the questions arising in curriculum development situations, and reaching the era of organized efforts in the context of higher education. In addition to publishing the works and ideas of experts and researchers in the field of curriculum in higher education, this journal seeks to enrich and develop the theoretical foundations and practical procedures and also encourage further specialized questions and answers in this emerging field. 

The validity of the scientific-research degree

This journal was confirmed according to the letter No. 3/11/2004 dated 20th Feb 2010 by Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.

Bi-quarterly Journal of Higher Education Curriculum Studies was established in order to address the issues and challenges of the curriculum in the higher education environment and in line with specialized thinking and practice in the curriculum and avoiding routine answers to questions from different curriculum dimensions and reaching the organized efforts in the field of higher education. This journal was developed with the help of a group of curriculum and higher education specialists, with the support of the Iranian Curriculum Studies Association, with the purpose of publishing the works and ideas of experts and researchers in the field and meanwhile encouraging more questions and answers in this emerging domain.

The validity of the scientific-research degree of this journal has been approved according to the letter No. 11/3/2004 dated 2010/02/20 by Iran Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.

 

Article Review Process:

After the initial review by the editor of the journal and confirmation of the related contents to areas of the journal, the reviewers for are assigned for the journal (3 reviewers). After a thorough review process and receiving the confirmation from at least 2 reviewers and making the necessary corrections, the article is accepted for the publication.

 

Charges of access to archive articles:

Since the main policy of this journal is to promote and spread science among all researchers around the globe, access to all archival articles of this journal is free of charges.

 

Copyright:

The editors of the journal consider the copyright of the works of the articles to belong to the authors and also reserve the material and intellectual rights of the articles published in the journal for the publisher.

 

Ethical Principles in Publication:

Since honesty and truthfulness in scientific research is the basis of the work of the editor and members of the editorial board of this journal, so the team always tries to prevent fraud and copying in published articles. Accordingly, before reviewing and publishing articles, it examines articles using similar finder software and takes the necessary action against them after going through the reviewing process. Furthermore, in order to be transparent in dealing with the violations and scientific misconducts, this journal follows the guidelines offered by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and has taken action to become a member of this committee.