This list includes many of the academic journals on experiential learning and community engagement. These publications also could be potential outlets for publishing your research.
Experiential Learning and Teaching Journals
Experiential Learning & Teaching in Higher Education: A Journal for Engaged Educators
- Publisher: Nova Southeastern University; National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE)
- Website: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/elthe/
- Availability: Issues posted on journal’s website.
Description (from website): Experiential Learning & Teaching in Higher Education: A Journal for Engaged Educators (ELTHE) focuses on concepts, practices, and scholarship documenting experiential education. Inquiries and submissions are accepted at any time. ELTHE is an indexed academic journal published semi-annually by Nova Southeastern University in cooperation with the National Society for Experiential Education. The ELTHE editorial board welcomes the submission of scholarly work and reports relating to the study, practice, and effectiveness of experiential learning and teaching in higher education. The journal is a publication representing a range of interests and is receptive to a variety of topics, whether general or specific. All scholarly methods and theoretical perspectives, so long as they contribute to readers’ knowledge about experiential learning and/or teaching within higher education, are accepted. The ideal ELTHE submission addresses a significant problem or approach, draws out the implications of its findings clearly, and engages the attention of its audience through a concise, readable presentation.
Innovative Higher Education
- Publisher: Springer
- Website: https://www.springer.com/journal/10755
- Availability: IC Library’s journal database and on journal’s website.
Description (from website): Innovative Higher Education is a refereed scholarly journal that strives to package fresh ideas in higher education in a straightforward and readable fashion. The four main purposes of Innovative Higher Education are: (1) to present descriptions and evaluations of current innovations and provocative new ideas with relevance for action beyond the immediate context in higher education; (2) to focus on the effect of such innovations on teaching and students; (3) to be open to diverse forms of scholarship and research methods by maintaining flexibility in the selection of topics deemed appropriate for the journal; and (4) to strike a balance between practice and theory by presenting manuscripts in a readable and scholarly manner to both faculty and administrators in the academic community.
International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Publisher: International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE).
- Website: https://journals.sfu.ca/iarslce/index.php/journal/index
- Availability: Issues on journal’s website.
Description (from website): The IJRSLCE is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the publication of high-quality research focused on service-learning, campus-community engagement, and the promotion of active and effective citizenship through education.
Journal of Experiential Education
- Publisher: SAGE
- Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jee
- Availability: IC Library’s journal database.
Description (from website): The Journal of Experiential Education (JEE) is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing refereed articles on experiential education in diverse contexts. The JEE provides a forum for the empirical and theoretical study of issues concerning experiential learning, program management and policies, educational, developmental, and health outcomes, teaching and facilitation, and research methodology. The JEE is a publication of the Association for Experiential Education.
Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
- Publisher: University of Georgia
- Website: https://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/jheoe/index
- Availability: IC Library’s journal database and journal’s website.
Description (from website): The mission of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement is to serve as the premier peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal to advance theory and practice related to all forms of outreach and engagement between higher education institutions and communities. This includes highlighting innovative endeavors; critically examining emerging issues, trends, challenges, and opportunities; and reporting on studies of impact in the areas of public service, outreach, engagement, extension, engaged research, community-based research, community-based participatory research, action research, public scholarship, service-learning, and community service
Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education
- Publisher: University of Louisiana Learning Systems
- Website: https://journals.sfu.ca/jslhe/index.php/jslhe
- Availability: Journal’s website and IC Library’s database.
Description (from website): The Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education is an online, international, peer-reviewed journal for the dissemination of original research regarding effective institutional-community partnerships. Our primary emphasis is to provide an outlet for sharing the methodologies and pedagogical approaches that lead to effective community-identified outcomes. The Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education is a subscription-free journal with a review board made up of various academic disciplines of the member institutions of the University of Louisiana System as well as other nationally and internationally accredited colleges and universities and affiliated organizations.
Journal of the Scholarship and Teaching and Learning
- Publisher: Indiana University
- Website: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl
- Availability: Journal’s website and IC Library’s journal database.
Description (from website): JoSoTL aims to address contemporary issues bridging teaching and learning in higher education, philosophical approaches to teaching, current research, and praxis. The journal publishes empirical research, case studies, essays, critiques, and articles of a theoretical/conceptual nature that contribute to deeper understanding of the issues, problems, and research relevant to the community of reflective teacher-scholars. Submissions must transcend disciplinary relevance as the journal's readership is inter-disciplinary.
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
- Publisher: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan
- Website: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mjcsl/
- Availability: Journal’s website and IC Library’s journal database.
Description (from website): The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning is an open access, peer-reviewed journal with authors and readers around the world. It publishes research, theory, and pedagogy pertinent to service-learning and civic and community engagement. As the publisher of MJCSL, we respond to the continuously emerging challenges we encounter in our communities by advancing innovative and interdisciplinary scholarship that informs and enhances the practice of community engagement. MJCSL is a crucial part of our mission to promote transformational student learning and community impact through campus-community partnerships.
Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research
- Publisher: Office of Applied Learning at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
- Website: https://ujslcbr.org/index.php/ujslcbr
- Availability: Journal’s website.
Description (from website): The Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research, a new, refereed, multidisciplinary, online undergraduate journal that will advance knowledge in new scholarly arenas by presenting intellectual and reflective work by undergraduates.
Note: This journal could be an opportunity for publishing student research.