Journals on Education are published from different countries including India. The subject matters range from the current problems and their solutions in the field of education, government policies in education, the need for multicultural education, education administration, distant learning and other related matters.
Since the content of this type of journals is highly academic, the readership is confined to teachers, scholars, policy makers, researchers, professionals and academicians. The need, however, is to reach the common people as the purpose of the entire exercise is aimed at them. Unless the writers get feed back from them, the evaluation of the education field would be short of complete.
The trend of on-line education journals was expected to pay good dividend. Articles of these e-journals are free to access and the readers might find these very handy. But a recent US study has revealed that these education e-journals get less than 5,000 hits a year. The reason perhaps is that the journals deal with technical education only.
People, mostly of the developing nations, are concerned over the sliding standard of primary and high school education. The high cost of higher educations is also a cause of worry. But they do not find enough education journals to get their questions answered. The writers of the journals available are also too pedantic. They write in scholarly jargon, which is often not understood well by the commoners.
The need of the hour is to publish low-cost education journals dealing with common man’s problems. Hosting of more on-line journals with free access to articles to the same goal is also necessary. The writing style should also be made common reader oriented. The feed back from parents and students on the current educational issues should be properly highlighted.
What we need is a holistic approach to education with mass participation. More on-line educational journals should be run by Institutes to educate both parents and their wards. No country prospers if the majority of its population is denied higher education. Journals on vocational training should also be published.
To sum up, the elitist attitude to education should be shelved.
Since the content of this type of journals is highly academic, the readership is confined to teachers, scholars, policy makers, researchers, professionals and academicians. The need, however, is to reach the common people as the purpose of the entire exercise is aimed at them. Unless the writers get feed back from them, the evaluation of the education field would be short of complete.
The trend of on-line education journals was expected to pay good dividend. Articles of these e-journals are free to access and the readers might find these very handy. But a recent US study has revealed that these education e-journals get less than 5,000 hits a year. The reason perhaps is that the journals deal with technical education only.
People, mostly of the developing nations, are concerned over the sliding standard of primary and high school education. The high cost of higher educations is also a cause of worry. But they do not find enough education journals to get their questions answered. The writers of the journals available are also too pedantic. They write in scholarly jargon, which is often not understood well by the commoners.
The need of the hour is to publish low-cost education journals dealing with common man’s problems. Hosting of more on-line journals with free access to articles to the same goal is also necessary. The writing style should also be made common reader oriented. The feed back from parents and students on the current educational issues should be properly highlighted.
What we need is a holistic approach to education with mass participation. More on-line educational journals should be run by Institutes to educate both parents and their wards. No country prospers if the majority of its population is denied higher education. Journals on vocational training should also be published.
To sum up, the elitist attitude to education should be shelved.
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