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                           Announcing
 
 
                    THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
                               OF
                  CONTINUING EDUCATION PRACTICE
 
                                                   ISSN 1198-3213
 
The International Journal of Continuing Education Practice has
been established to foster excellence in the practice of all
aspects of continuing education.  It is an international,
refereed journal of the highest standard.  The journal welcomes
original program descriptions and assessments, innovative
administrative practices in program planning and implementation,
methodological discussions on administrative and teaching
practice, original or applied research and conceptual pieces
focusing on practice..
 
The journal addresses all topics and issues of relevance to the
broad field of adult and continuing education, and frames them by
their relevance to practice.  Practice refers to the entire range
of activity in the broad field of adult and continuing education.
It may include, but is not limited to, continuing education in
the professions and para-professions, training and human resource
development, university and all post secondary continuing
education, community and societal development, and personal and
recreational development.
 
 
Publication
 
The Journal will be published electronically as submissions
warrant. The ISSN is 1198-3213.     .
 
 
Subscription
 
There is no charge for subscription.  To subscribe, send an e-mail
message, with no subject line, to:
     listserv@max.cc.uregina.ca
with only this one line message:
     subscribe CONTED  your first name your last name
for example,
     subscribe CONTED Mary Smith
 
Inquiries and correspondence to the Editors can be sent to:
     Conted@max.cc.uregina.ca
 
 
Editorial Notes:
 
We are setting up the International Journal of Continuing
Education Practice to offer the same voice to practice that
theoretical journals offer to academic discussion.
 
Colleagues in academic disciplines have developed a mechanism for
recognizing and disseminating meritorious research and theory
development through refereed publications.  As practitioners, we
are often so caught up in 'doing' that excellent practices and
programs are largely unrecognized at a national or international
level.  Similarly, few practitioners are widely recognized for
their excellence because very few of us publish; innovations are
seldom disseminated to others interested in practice, in part
because there are few mechanisms to do that.
 
The International Journal of Continuing Education Practice fills
this niche.  It will foster excellence in practice and assist in
the dissemination and development of new ideas through the peer
review process.
 
 
Peer Review Guidelines
 
While peer review of academic articles is reasonably well
understood, peer review of practice is another matter.  In the
tradition of the field of adult and continuing education, the
Editors invite you to participate in the development of the
guidelines by which good practice should be judged.  Please
subscribe to the Journal to engage in this moderated discussion.
(A moderated discussion means that messages sent to CONTED are
not automatically distributed, but are first reviewed by the
Editors.)
 
The discussion will begin March 14 and continue for several weeks
until a reasonable consensus has developed regarding peer review
of continuing education practice.  The resulting criteria for
evaluating good practice will be used by reviewers in the referee
process, and will be provided to authors to guide them in their
submissions.
 
Editorial Board Members
 
Editorial Board members are expected to be knowledgeable and
experienced practitioners in any area of adult and continuing
education.  Members of the Editorial Board review articles
submitted to the journal and provide advice and assistance to the
Editors.  In conjunction with the discussion on peer review of
practice, we will also be addressing the qualifications necessary
to be invited to serve as a member of the editorial board.
Please subscribe to the Journal to engage in this discussion.
 
Call for Papers and Author's Guidelines
 
Please start now to give some thought to excellent programs and
practices that you can share with others.  An official call for
papers will be issued when the above discussions have concluded.
In the meantime, we encourage you to contact us with your ideas.
You can reach us by sending a mail message to
     Conted@max.cc.uregina.ca
Your message will not be distributed to the list.  However, so
that we know your message is just for the editors, it would be
helpful if you used "To Editors" as your subject line.
 
We hope to hear from you soon.  Please feel free to forward this
announcement to other interested individuals or lists.
 
 
                             Editors
 
Dr. Sandra D. Pearce                    Dr. Larry I. Hein
Associate Professor & Head,             Professor & Head
Professional & Social                   Business & Management
  Development Division                    Division
 
                      University Extension
                      University of Regina
                           Regina, SK
                             Canada