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Author Guidelines

Orbis scholae carries four types of article:
theoretical papers (ca 45,000 characters)
methodological papers (ca 45,000 characters)
review papers (ca 45,000 characters)
research reports (ca 45,000 characters)
discussion papers (ca 18,000 characters)
conference reports (ca 9,000 characters)
book reviews (ca 9,000 characters)

English issues of Orbis scholae are concieved as invitation-based special (monothematic) issues. Papers on a selected topic are invited through “calls for papers” every year in advance. Only excellent papers of outstanding consequence are accepted outside the “calls for papers”.

The manuscript should be submitted via following link: https://ojs.cuni.cz/orbisscholae/.

The articles should have the following structure: abstract (max 1,200 characters), key words, introduction, state-of-the-art, method, results and interpretations, discussion.

Authors are expected to respect APA guidelines concerning referencing while preparing manuscripts.

The Journal accepts previously unpublished papers only. The submitted manuscript must include the following statement: “Neither the sumbitted paper nor its substantial parts were published in or submitted to another journal, collection of papers, conference proceedings or book.”

Peer Review

Prior to publication, each paper (excluding reports and book reviews) is peer-reviewed by two anonymous experts (double-blind review).

Open Access Statement

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Content License

The journal applies the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License to articles and other works we publish. If you submit your paper for publication by Orbis scholae, you agree to have the CC BY license applied to your work. The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions.

Publication Fees

There are no author fees or charges required for manuscript processing and/or publishing materials in the journal.

Archiving

Long-term archiving of the digital content of the journal is provided by Portico.


The journal follows APA style. The formatting requirements for manuscripts can be found here. For detailed author guidelines, please click here.

Manuscript Anonymization Guidelines

To maintain the integrity of the anonymous peer review process, it is essential to prevent both authors and reviewers from identifying each other. Before uploading your submission, please ensure that the following anonymization steps have been taken:

  • All author names must be removed from the text and replaced with the term “Author,” including in references and footnotes.

  • For Microsoft Office documents, author information must also be removed from the file properties.

  • For PDF files, author names should likewise be removed from the document properties, which can be accessed via the File menu in Adobe Acrobat.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The contribution, including any of its substantial parts, has not been published or submitted for publication in any other journal, proceedings, or monograph. If the contribution is published in the Orbis Scholae journal, it will not be republished elsewhere without the prior consent of the Orbis Scholae editorial board.
  • The manuscript file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
  • The text and formatting adhere to the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The manuscript is fully anonymized according to the Manuscript Anonymization Guidelines.
  • The submission is made using the corresponding author's institutional email address. The corresponding authors is clearly stated in the Title page of the submission.

On the issue of transdisciplinarity in didactics

There is a vivid tradition of disciplinary didactic as a form of reflection on content
transformation in the classroom. In this vein, domain-specific issues of teaching and learning
are covered by disciplinary didactic. Disciplinary didactics draws on theoretical and
methodological input from academic subject-matter disciplines, educational sciences,
empirical educational research, and other subject didactics (Vollmer & Rothgangel, 2024, p.
292). On the other hand, in education also overreaching concepts are to be dealt with. As
Deng (2024) emphasizes, fostering connections across disciplines and enabling
interdisciplinary dialogue is essential. Such efforts underscore “the need for an extended
meta-theory accommodating diverse research practices and the evolving influence” (p. 14).
Here, the challenge of transdisciplinarity emerges. Theoretical, methodological, and
practice-oriented approaches, concepts, and instruments that transcend individual
disciplines are thus essential to address the growing transdisciplinary demands in modern
education

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