Aims & Scope

The research and education community faces an obvious lack of journals with a special focus on the philosophy of education. A journal that takes a theological perspective on education is even a bigger challenge to find. Along with that, philosophy and theology have always been a theoretical backbone of pedagogy. In recent years, theology has been gaining momentum as one of the major branches of the humanities in Russia. This necessitates the development of expert platforms that will facilitate experience sharing accumulated by scholars and academics and encourage the discussion of new projects. Paideia can accommodate both.

The development of a common communicative space for those with an interest in the Journal’s research agenda is indispensable to our mission. Paideia is a comprehensive interdisciplinary journal for professionals exploring the issues in education, philosophy, theology, and pedagogy.

Education is central to society, politics and culture. This explains its long-standing popularity as a subject for philosophical and theological consideration. Pedagody has a huge potential for human development. This potential would be impossible to recognize without the conceptual contribution of philosophy and theology as well as their predictive power.

Since the society is united by a public consensus about the present and the future, the Journal is both retrospective and prospective in its nature. The society undergoing dramatic changes is shaping a new agenda for educational institutions. To implement the new agenda is to understand the outcomes a modern education should bring and the profile a modern school/university graduate should have. Another key element in education is training teachers as those responsible for the future of the young.

In this regard, we welcome philosophical and theological contributions with the focus on the state-of-the-art and prospects of Russian and foreign general and higher education. We give preference to papers exploring current issues in pedagogy in Russia and beyond as well as studies in how educational institutions face up to acute challenges of our time: globalization, digitalization, “religization” of politics, structural changes in scholarly knowledge, economic and cultural crises.

High on the Journal’s agenda is the discussion of changes facing the human-centred and non-human-centered domains of education, the study of values, traditions, history and predictive aspects of pedagogy.

Paideia welcomes contributions from individuals from a wide range of research backgrounds provided the contributors show high professional and ethical standards in research and academic discussion.