About the Journal

The journal Pedagogika has been coming out since 1951 as a specialist academic journal on education which respects contemporary standards of quality of academic publishing. Originally it was published by the Ministry of Education but it soon came under the Comenius Institute of Education of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Since 1994 it has been published by Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education.

The journal Pedagogika contributes to the development of academic understanding in education and to the cultivation of professional opinions. This it does through both the overall selection and the orientation of articles, the rigorous demands made on them and observation of ethical principles of publishing.

The journal publishes reviewed academic studies, discussions on current issues, reviews of relevant publications as well as analytical reports on important events in the professional community. Pedagogika publishes the following types of academic studies: theoretical, historical, review, methodological and research papers. Pedagogika journal is usually published four times a year. Two issues are monothematic, one being interational with texts published in foreign languages. Pedagogika journal also publishes foreign language texts in standard issues.

Pedagogika is an open access journal. By a submission of a text authors agree with its publication and accept the open access policy. Content of the journal is freely available to all readers and institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, print, distribute, search and refer to full texts of the articles without a permission of the author and publisher. Pedagogika journal applies Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).

Pedagogika journal is indexed in international databases DOAJ, ERIH PLUS, EBSCO and Ulrich’s.

ISSN: 0031-3815 (print), 2336-2189 (online)
Journal web pages: www.pedcas.cz
Journal system pages: www.scied.cz/index.php/pedagogika/index

Announcements

Call for Papers: English Monothematic Issue 2027 Learning in Times of Polycrisis: Education, Life Skills, and Social Resilience

2026-10-09

This special issue explores how people, communities, and institutions learn amid interconnected crises, developing life skills and social resilience. It examines formal, non-formal, and informal learning, with particular attention to overlooked knowledge, preparedness, and the capacity to act under uncertainty. Contributions critically address power, inequality, and institutional responsibility, asking how education can support both adaptation and the transformation of conditions that produce vulnerability.

Abstract deadline: 30 November 2026. Send abstracts (max. 2 pages / 3,600 characters) to pedagogika@pedf.cuni.cz, with the subject “English mono 2027”.

Notification of abstract acceptance: by 31 December 2026. Full manuscript deadline: 30 April 2027.

Publication: by the end of 2027, following double-blind peer review.

Guest editors: Jana Poláchová Vašťatková (Palacký University Olomouc) and Paweł Rudnicki (DSW University).