About the Journal

Journal of Educational Sciences was founded in 1992. The founder and publisher of the journal are Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. The journal has developed and approved cover and title pages indicating the university, the output data of the issue, ISSN, eISSN, the composition of the editorial board, editorial policy, publication ethics and website.  The journal is published 4 times a year.

Journal articles are registered in the CrossRef database and each author's article is necessarily assigned a DOI-a a digital object identifier that is used to provide a citation, reference and access to electronic documents.

The journal is indexed by the Kazakhstani Citation Database of JSC "National Center for State Scientific and Technical Expertise".

The journal is also available in the Scientific Electronic Library elibrary.ru in open access for readers and included in the analytical database "Russian Science Citation Index ".

The editorial board of the journal includes leading Kazakh and foreign scientists.

The journal follows the policy of information openness and accessibility of authors' publications, articles are published on the journal's website in three languages in full-text access.

Purposes and objectives of the journal

The purpose of the journal is to publish and discuss the results of scientific researches in the field of education and pedagogy, philosophy and education, sociology and psychology of education, economy and management of education for the improvement of the level and quality of development of Kazakhstani's education and science, the representation of researches of Kazakhstani scientists in the world educational community.  

In this regard, the journal has an integrative character for presenting the results of research in the field of education from the point of view of various social, humanitarian and natural sciences: pedagogy and psychology, sociology and philosophy, economy and management, didactics and methods of teaching scientific disciplines, studying various scientific approaches to the development of the world and domestic system of education and upbringing.

The journal provides a platform for discussing modern educational reforms from a scientific point of view on preschool, school, university and postgraduate education; implementing the possibility of scientific and educational cooperation between university scientists and school teachers, educational psychologists, social workers, economists and philosophers, doctors; reflecting advanced scientific research results, presenting cooperation between domestic and foreign scientists.

Advantages of publications in the journal – scientific novelty, research intensity, high level of selection of articles-uniqueness and peer review of articles by independent experts, interdisciplinary nature of consideration of educational problems.

The objectives of the journal:

  • Covering of new scientific results of fundamental, applied, innovative research conducted in different regions of Kazakhstan and abroad in the field of education and pedagogy in three languages-Kazakh, Russian, English;
  • Accessibility and discussion of the results of scientific researches, international and domestic groups of scientists-pedagogues, psychologists, sociologists, teachers, practitioners in their cooperation and collaboration; 
  • Integration of approaches of domestic psycho-pedagogical and foreign educational science, demonstration of complex research designs with quantitative and qualitative validation of the obtained research results;
  • Reflection of the results of scientific researches of Kazakhstani and foreign authors in the world educational community by including the journal in the world, international databases of journals and articles; 
  • Promotion and advertising of Kazakhstani pedagogical science, scientific schools to new world achievements; 
  • Creating an environment of openness and accessibility to discuss the results of scientific researches of young scientists-PhD students;
  • A gradual increase in the share of articles in English – up to 20-30%, etc.
  • Review articles of specialized researches in the field of education;
  • Original scientific articles with new scientific achievements, experimental pedagogical and experimental data in the field of education;
  • Reviews and reviews of various new scientific studies, monographs and textbooks;
  • Editorials, comments or summaries on ongoing scientific events, discussions of educational regulations, etc.

 Thematic directions of the journal

The materials of the journal cover a wide range of problems in the field of pedagogy and education development – scientific reviews, results of theoretical and practical researches in the history and methodology of education, social and psychological issues of education, professional training, comparative pedagogy, inclusive education, methods of teaching subjects and methods of upbringing, e-learning and distance education, etc.  Articles are published in the following sections of pedagogy and problems of education: 

  • History. The methodology of modern education. 
  • Psycho-pedagogical problems of professional training of specialists. 
  • Psycho-pedagogical researches. 
  • E-learning and distance education. 
  • Comparative education.
  • Management of education. 
  • Innovative development of universities. 
  • Inclusive education. 
  •  Evaluation and measurement in education: domestic and foreign experience. 
  •  Theory and methodology of upbringing work. 
  • Methods of teaching disciplines.

Current relevant directions in Kazakhstan are: 

  • Ethno-pedagogical foundations of national education of young people in the context of systemic changes in society. 
  • Philosophy and methodology of pedagogy and education. Paradigm shifts in the theories of pedagogy. 
  • Pedagogical concepts of great thinkers (al-Farabi, Abay Kunanbayev, etc.) and their potential to achieve success in the educational process. 
  • Multicultural educational space.
  • International studies on the quality of education. 
  • Academic and functional literacy of students. 
  • New achievements of innovative secondary and higher school didactics. 
  • Creation of a system for training scientific and pedagogical personnel: domestic and foreign experience. 
  • Evolution of the development of the content of education in Kazakh schools. Unique schools on the territory of Kazakhstan.

 

  * The author(s) of the manuscript approved for publication in the journal are obliged to pay for publication in accordance with the approved price list for publication in the scientific journals of al-Farabi KazNU. According to the approved price list, payment for publication is 2000 tenge per page. In exceptional cases, if there are other sources of funding for the journal series, authors may be fully or partially exempted from payment for the publication of the article.

A receipt for payment for publication in pdf format is sent by the author(s) to the e-mail address of the editorial office of the journal.