About the Journal

Mañé, Ferrer & Swartz International Journal of Education and Critical Social Analysis receives research articles and critical essays on Education, history, sociology, psychology, diverse didactics, anthropology, feminism, ecology, self-management, economy, philosophy, discourse analysis, health, veganism, literature, music, law... and everything for which we had evaluators. We accept critical and scientifically based reviews of books, movies, musical and artistic works, scientific events, and social struggles, with priority given to all those that are as far removed from commercial spheres as possible, or that include the analysis of profit motives as one of the purposes of the analysis, if applicable.

The current indexing of the journal can be found on its cover. This publication was created with the aim of being indexed as soon as possible in national and international databases, such as Scopus and Web of Science, although we are not part of such a business and are committed to open critical science. In our evaluations, the double peer review system will not contemplate any authorship curriculum, focusing on the content of the articles.

We are not going to be politically correct, nor to publish what does not contribute anything to the world, no matter how "methodologically perfect" it is "formulated". For that, there are already hundreds of Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 journals. We have no news that any of them wants to sink the fleet of the unfair system that surrounds us. In this journal, qualitative research is a priority, as long as we don't consider ourselves numbers, although critical quantitative research is welcome.

Our, your, journal is going to be biannual, but if we have received articles and they are previously approved (double-blind peer review), it will be published earlier, for the benefit of critical researchers. Although we publish under the Introduction-methodology-results-conclusions-bibliography scheme, we will also accept essays and free contributions, personal experiences, reviews and others, always based, if possible, on primary sources, with the maximum contrast of information, and with a critical look.

We are sorry, but at the moment, we will not be able to escape the APA 7 standards. We will not be able to publish articles that have spelling or writing mistakes, that do not quote or that do not write the bibliography correctly, or that do not comply with what they force us to comply with for be indexed. Papers in which we find plagiarism will not receive any verdict or response from us, we have zero tolerance in this regard. We will use the most modern plagiarism control tools.

Those manuscripts in which the political and economic facts are included, which determine the majority of what happens, will be expressly valued. In this journal you can name parties and castes, and even that word that seems taboo in most of the daily scientific production: capitalism. Neither state, political, economic, military, judicial or religious control can be fully understood as dissociated phenomena. To do so would be to cripple the understanding of any scientific fact. It is obvious, and public, what research is financed by the system, and under what regime we find ourselves.

Bearing in mind that our profession is teaching and research, we will try to manage this journal in the most beneficial way possible for those who send us their articles, counting on the understanding of colleagues in this regard as far as time is concerned. We are not machines.

Contributions we receive must be original and not be simultaneously evaluated in any other publication, although we accept (as long as it is indicated and it would be shown), to publish previously included writings in spaces that would not have been professionally useful for those who wrote them (such as non-indexed journal and books, Internet pages...), as long as they were adapted to the academic-scientific format, and/or updated. At least 40% of what is published in our journal must be original research, scientific communication or creation: original research articles, review articles, opinion articles, essays, clinical cases and technical notes.

The published papers do not necessarily express the opinion of the Scientific Committee. Nothing will ever be published that violates Human Rights in any way, or is even lukewarm against their violation, or is in favor of patriarchy, some kind of racial or national superiority, speciesism, aporophobia, ableism, cults, or any discrimination against the LGTBIQ+ community.

Our journal is defined by a total editorial openness, being open to all personalities related to critical and emancipatory research for a better world, beyond mere discourse, as Foucault would tell us. We support a science not for the benefit of big capital, nor one that must be defended for presenting itself as unquestionable as religions, as Feyerabend told us. We believe, and not as a matter of faith, in science for total liberation, in utopian science, even though we find ourselves in a dystopian world.

We accept all kinds of suggestions to include in all the information services of this journal and access policies, and our code of ethics is based on rigorous compliance with the critical analysis of the primary and secondary sources of the writings, and the contrast with the world that surrounds us, beyond uncritical analyzes that only reproduce the single thought, or that do not conceive that legislation is something momentary, that what was illegal yesterday is legal today, and vice versa.

The target audience for Mañé, Ferrer & Swartz is global, from Central America to South America, passing through Africa, Asia, Australia, North America or Europe. We want to reach the population, the academic community, and anyone who wants to have a critical sense or increase it.

Creative Commons licenses are the basis of our activity, and there are no payments to be made by those who research and wish to publish in our journal. I hope you all count on us to spread your research and critical contributions. Resignation is a daily suicide, utopia is possible.