FOCUS AND SCOPE

Although there are many journals that we can find in our areas of knowledge, we believe that many of them have been instrumentalizing practices and analysis at the service of disseminating research results, in many cases disconnected from the interests of the educational community. Faced with this, our proposal is aimed at recovering pedagogical and didactic reflection as a central element of educational discourse, subordinating the importance of tools to the epistemological, methodological and axiological approach, that is, focusing on how and, above all, in the why and for what. We are interested, therefore, in rescuing and giving prominence to didactic theorizing, pedagogical reflection and innovative praxis as fundamental pillars of education, in order to promote critical thinking within the framework of analysis, studies and democratic and participatory. And all this by offering a space for expression both to teachers and teachers as well as to students of the faculties of Education.

We at Márgenes magazine are convinced that the current editorial policy, based on impact indexes, has many critics and hardly helps the democratic dissemination of knowledge [San Francisco Declaration of Evaluation of Research: Spanish | English] [link 1; link 2; link 3link 4; link 5]; This situation has been revealed by a recent Supreme Court ruling [link]. Even so, we are aware of the impact, especially on young teachers and researchers, that these quality criteria have on their academic careers. That is why we are going to work to improve the impact of the magazine, without sacrificing along the way our concern for quality content that is structured from a concrete and coherent perspective of education. For this purpose, we rely on the work and criteria of a committed scientific council of recognized prestige, and with a team of reviewers who are equally competent and committed to the journal's policy.

The aforementioned hegemonic editorial policy is also contributing to the rise of a vision of education supported by external evaluation and housed in quantitative and experimentalist approaches that, consequently, mortgage approaches to educational processes and contexts based on understanding and interpretation of meanings and senses.

The Márgenes magazine emerges as an alternative to give visibility to these other approaches to education, from qualitative methodological approaches that currently find few spaces for publication, dissemination and discussion. At this point, we want to make it clear that the question is not merely instrumental nor is it resolved through the intermediate route of mixed methods. We are convinced that, in the face of the search for objectivity that is promulgated from the positivist paradigm, ideology is an inherent part of education and as such, it is impossible to separate publications from the way in which we approach knowing reality. . A scientific discussion that is by no means new (Denzin, 1978; Stake, 1975; Eisner, 1979; Guba, 1978, 1979, 1985; Guba and Lincoln, 1985; Paredes, 2009; Bassols, 1982; Pérez, 2011), but which, however, we are interested in reconsidering in this magazine. In our view, education as a social science, epistemologically, demands its own methods that are far from the experimental ones. That is why it seems important to us to make explicit the vision of education that we have in our magazine:

• Our research perspective is focused on the qualitative paradigm, showing interest in publishing research, phenomenological, ethnographic, naturalistic, evaluative, biographical-narrative, action-research studies and experiences , among others.
• We believe that knowledge should be a tool to solve practical problems and, therefore, we are not interested in those experiences or studies that see knowledge as an instrumental issue.
• We believe in an inclusive public school and we identify with a vision of socio-constructivist learning: we understand that this is a unique and personal process, different for each person and that cannot be measured.
• We are concerned about the didactic methodology and the role of education professionals: we believe that improving education inevitably involves improving the activities we design.

The Márgenes Magazine will publish papers that contribute to enriching knowledge in education, fundamentally focused on the specific paradigm exposed above.

The works must be original, have not been published in any medium or be in the process of publication, being the responsibility of the authors and the authors compliance with this rule.

The type of contributions can be found in the Sections section of the Rules for authors-as.

The rest of the information about the format in which contributions should be submitted can be found in Author Guidelines</a >.

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

The role of the editor-in-chief is very important: the role is held by an individual with very good knowledge of the profession, common sense, and tact to be consistent with our commitment to a friendly review process.

Our chief editor receives the articles and initially assesses their suitability for the journal's approach and their scientific quality, and in doubtful cases consults the management. This first selection of the articles by the management team is essential, since only this team has the general vision of the objectives and the level of quality that the magazine pursues.

The editor-in-chief performs two more tasks: checking the originality of the text by searching the Internet and using some applications to detect plagiarism; and take care that the texts meet the anonymity criteria of the journal (in the text and in the document properties). At this point, each manuscript is assigned to an editor, who will continue the editorial process.

The editor will be in charge of assigning two reviewers to the manuscript. The Scientific Committee, made up of people chosen for their academic and professional prestige, is in charge of carrying out a part of the reviews of the works by the double-blind method, according to which authors and reviewers do not know. Another important part of the reviews are carried out by specialists in the subject matter of the articles in question, totally external and without ties to the journal. The exchange of messages is carried out exclusively through the chief editor and the OJS platform.

The journal considers the work of peer review to be very important, and that is why it places special interest and dedication in the selection of reviewers for its own database, focusing on their academic and professional quality and that they are experts on specific topics.

In cases where male and female reviewers make suggestions for improvements to the articles, there will be two rounds of review (and sometimes as many as three).

Once the article has been definitively accepted, the editor passes to the exclusive review of style, spelling, expression, review of additional materials (graphics, illustrations, photos of the authors), etc. If necessary, it will ask the authors for new style corrections or additional material in better conditions (resolution of images, documents, etc.).

Once this stage is finished, the material will be formatted and published in the corresponding issue of the magazine. This will be communicated to the author or author by means of a copy of a digital certificate in case they need it in any accrediting process while the article is in press or editing.

Margins magazine's commitment is not to extend review times beyond 4 weeks from receipt of the article.

FREQUENCY OF PUBLICATION

Márgenes Magazine is published on a semi-annual basis (January and July) with the possibility of an extraordinary number per year (September). The editors and publishers reserve the right to assign manuscripts to the most pertinent section.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Márgenes Revista de Educación de la Universidad de Málaga provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps a greater global exchange of information. knowledge and based on the principles of the international Open Access movement established in Budapest (BOAI, 2002), Berlin (2003) and Bethesda (2003 ), so that the publications in this journal meet these conditions:

1. The guarantee that all users equally have the free, irrevocable, worldwide right to access a scholarly work, as well as a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and publicly display it, and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital media for any responsible purpose, all subject to proper acknowledgment of authorship (community standards will continue to provide mechanisms to enforce proper acknowledgment and responsible use of published works, as is now done), as well as the right to make small number printed copies for your personal use.
2. A complete version of the work and all its supporting materials, including a copy of the above permission, in a convenient standard electronic format, is deposited (and so is published) in at least one online repository, that uses acceptable technical standards (such as Open Access definitions), that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, learned society, government agency, or well-established organization seeking to implement open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archivability.

Márgenes is an open access journal, whose content is free. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full-text articles in this journal without the prior consent of the publisher or author. The reuse of the works must be done in accordance with the terms of the license used: Creative Commons BY-ND. Márgenes does not charge fees for the submission of manuscripts or for the publication of their articles.

COMPROMISO ÉTICO

Márgenes Magazine adheres to the code of conduct and good practices established by the Ethics Committee in Publications (COPE) defines for editors of scientific journals.

Authors' commitments:

• Originality and plagiarism: The authors assure that the work is original, that it does not contain parts of other published works without citing. In addition, they confirm that neither the data nor the analyzes have been altered to favor the findings.
• Multiple publications: The author should not publish articles in which the same findings and/or analyzes are repeated in more than one scientific journal.
• List of sources: The author must always provide the correct indication of the sources and contributions mentioned in the article.
• Authorship: Regarding the authorship of the manuscript, the authors guarantee the inclusion of those people who have made a significant scientific and intellectual contribution in the conceptualization and planning of the work as well as in the interpretation of the findings and in the writing of the same.
• Access and retention: If the editors deem it appropriate, the authors of the articles should also make the sources or data available in on which the research is based, which can be retained for a reasonable period of time after publication and possibly made accessible.
• Conflict of interest and disclosure: All authors are required to explicitly declare that there are no conflicts of interest that may have influenced the findings or proposed interpretations . The authors must also indicate any funding from agencies and/or projects from which the research article arises.
• Errors in published articles: When an author identifies an important error or inaccuracy in his article, he must immediately inform the editors of the magazine and provide them with all the necessary information to list the pertinent corrections at the bottom of the article itself.
• Responsibility: all authors accept responsibility for what has been written and also undertake that a review of the most relevant scientific literature has been carried out of the topic analyzed, taking into account in a plural way the different currents of knowledge.

Reviewer Commitments:

• Contribution to editorial decision: Peer review is a fundamental procedure for making decisions about proposed articles and also allows the author to improve the contribution submitted for publication . The reviewers-as assume the commitment to carry out a critical, honest, constructive and unbiased review, both of the scientific quality and of the literary quality of the writing in the field of their knowledge and skills.
• Respect for time: The reviewer who does not feel competent in the subject to be reviewed or who cannot complete the evaluation in the scheduled time will immediately notify the the-editors-as. They undertake to evaluate the work in the shortest possible time to respect the delivery deadlines.
• Confidentiality: Each assigned manuscript must be considered confidential. Therefore, these texts should not be discussed with other people without the express consent of the editors.
• Professionalism: Peer review will be conducted in a professional manner. No personal judgment about the authors of the contributions is considered adequate. The reviewers are obliged to give sufficient reasons for their evaluations. Likewise, they will deliver a complete critical report according to the review protocol, especially if it is proposed that the work be rejected. They are required to notify editors if substantial parts of the work have already been published or are under review for another publication.
• References: The reviewers undertake to accurately indicate the bibliographical references of fundamental works possibly forgotten by the author. You should also inform the editors of any similarities or overlaps in the manuscript with other published works.
• Conflict of interest: Confidential information or information obtained during the peer review process should be considered confidential and may not be used for personal purposes Reviewers only review one manuscript if there are no conflicts of interest.

Publishers' commitments:

• Publication decision: the editors will guarantee the selection of the most qualified reviewers and specialists to issue a critical and expert appreciation of the work, with the least possible biases.
• Honesty: the editors evaluate the articles submitted for publication only on the basis of the quality of the content, without discrimination of race, gender, sexual orientation , religion, ethnic origin, nationality, political opinion of the authors.
• Confidentiality: the editors undertake not to disclose the information related to the articles submitted for publication to other people who are not authors, reviewers- ace and editors-ace. The editors and the Editorial Board agree to the confidentiality of the manuscripts, their authors and reviewers, so that anonymity preserves the intellectual integrity of the entire process.
• Conflict of interest: the editors agree not to use the content of the articles submitted for publication in their research without the written consent of the author. .
• Respect for time: editors are ultimately responsible for compliance with the time limits for revisions and publication of accepted papers, to ensure a rapid dissemination of its results. They firmly commit to comply with the published times. Likewise, the works will not remain accepted without being published in infinite waiting lists beyond the time just for their publication in the next issue.

DISSEMINATION OF WORKS

From the Márgenes Magazine we encourage the authors and the scientific community to promote and disseminate the works in their final version through:

• Contact lists (mails)
• University institutional repositories and public repositories (Mendeley, ...).
• Scientific social networks (ResearchGate, Academia.edu, ...).
• Social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, …)
• Personal or institutional websites, blogs, etc.
• Google Scholar, ORCID, ...

ANTIPLAGIARS

Margins. Education Magazine of the University of Malaga maintains an anti-plagiarism policy that ensures that all published works are unpublished, through the professional application of the services of Crossref Similarity Check from Ithenticate, to scan all proposals.

We use the service on all papers that have passed the editorial screening process and are eligible for blind peer review.

The Journal reserves the decision to reject articles with an inadequate similarity percentage.

We also have specific plagiarism detection tools such as Unicheck, a free access platform that monitors originality and controls plagiarism.

DIGITAL PRESERVATION

Márgenes uses DOI, which is a persistent identifier, thus ensuring that the link will be preserved, and DOAJ, which is a community initiative of peers, who maintain the open access journal directory project collaborated to identify principles of transparency and good practices of academic publications. In addition, all the articles are hosted on Dialnet.

HISTORY OF THE MAGAZINE

The Márgenes magazine emerges as an alternative to give visibility to other educational paradigms.

We do not believe in the veracity of the impact indices, as shown by numerous studies [San Francisco Statement of Research Evaluation: Spanish English] [link to study 2]. We are convinced that, in the face of the fallacy of objectivity that is promulgated from other publications, ideology is an inherent part of education and as such, it is impossible to separate the publications from the way in which we approach knowing reality. That is why it seems important to us to make explicit the vision of education that we have in our magazine:

• Our research perspective focuses on the qualitative paradigm, therefore we are not interested in quantitative studies in our area of an experimental or quasi-experimental nature. On the contrary, we are interested in publishing research, phenomenological studies and experiences, grounded theory, narrative, ethnographic, naturalistic, evaluative and ethnomethodological, among others, such as: case studies, biographical-narrative, action-research, critical incidents, …< /li>
• We believe that knowledge should be a tool to solve practical problems and, therefore, we are not interested in those experiences or studies that see knowledge as an instrumental issue.
• We identify with a constructivist vision of learning: we understand that this is a unique and personal process, different for each person and that cannot be measured or valued.
• We are concerned about the didactic methodology and the role of the teacher: we believe that improving the school inevitably involves improving the activities that teachers do with their students and this is a methodological issue.</li >
• We believe in a public school for everyone: as inclusive as possible.
• We flee from rankings and the fashionable perspective in evaluation associated with measurement.