Play, Games, and Toys: Play Cultures and Educational Processes

Topics in this issue

• The educational value of play across the life span
• Contemporary transformations of play between digital and analog
• The relationship between play, inclusion, and participation
• Toys as educational tools, cultural mediators, and simulations of social or work activities
• Play practices in educational services, both formal and non-formal

Important deadlines

Manuscript submission: September 1, 2026
Review results: October 1, 2026
Submission of revised articles: by November 1, 2026
Expected publication: by December 2026

Educating for Complexity: Intersectionality, Decolonial Approaches to Teaching, and Practices of Care in Education

Themes of the Issue

• Decolonisation of teaching, knowledge, and assessment practices
• Situated epistemologies, marginalised knowledges, and plurality of perspectives
• Critical, postcolonial, and feminist pedagogies
• Practices of care in educational contexts, towards collective forms of interdependence, justice, and institutional transformation
• Initial and in-service teacher education on intersectionality and care
• Action research experiences, instructional design, and pedagogical innovation oriented towards care.

Important Deadlines

Submission of proposals: 15 April 2026
Notification of review results: 15 May 2026
Submission of revised paper: 31 May 2026
Expected publication: June 2026