Eco-thinking and Informal Science Learning

Building a Journal for Everyone

Abstract

As founding co-editors, we welcome you to the launch of the International Journal of Informal Science and Environmental Learning (IJISEL). These are exciting times to begin a new journal that focuses on informal science and environmental learning. We share with you our aspiration to create an academic space that brings together the informal science and environmental education communities through an open-access platform - accessible to a diverse and international audience. In aiming to draw a collection of original research, the new journal will document and describe a diversity of research from around the globe. We will address this goal in two ways. First, the journal will refl ect a diversity of voices/cultures conducting research across these global fi elds of inquiry. Second, the journal will further illuminate research diversity by highlighting an eclectic range of methodologies. From established to emergent methodologies we aim for papers to describe learning in science and environmental contexts in ways that push our collective thinking about what is possible.