Revistas de investigación educativa: una visión parcial desde el Reino Unido

Abstract

This paper is about educational research journals in general and the British Educational Research Journal in particular. In this paper, we discuss some of the aims of educational research journals and several the challenges facing them; we also identify various ways in which journals could consider doing things differently. Two issues are of particular significance. The first is about the accessibility of educational research in an era of rapid technological change and the rise of Open Access publication models. The second is to do with the mission of education journals in relation to long-standing and pervasive educational inequalities.1 A few points of clarification are in order before we go any further. We were invited to write this article as co-editors of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ). BERJ is the flagship of the British Educational Research Association. We co-edited the journal along with colleagues at Cardiff University for five years. As of early 2018 we are now the ex-editors 1 . Our views in this paper are our own, and don't reflect either this views of BERA or BERJ.