IJCE’s Editors: Broadening the scholarly conversation

Abstract

In the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Christian Education (IJCE), Trevor Cooling and I (Smith and Cooling, 2015) described the intended scope of the journal. We aim to publish scholarly work that addresses the intersection between Christianity (its beliefs, practices, history, etc.) and education (theory and practice, various areas of curriculum, various institutional forms, etc.). We indicated in that first editorial some areas where we hope to see a continued broadening of published work in this area. One of these areas was the global reach of the conversation. In this second editorial I would like to introduce the initial editors of IJCE—I say initial because, although they represent a range of national contexts, the list is still heavily focused on the West, and we hope to expand the editorial base further as opportunity allows. The initial group of editors grows out of the traditional bases of the Journal of Christian Education (Australia) and the Journal of Education & Christian Belief (UK and US), and begins the process of expansion from there. The two journals that have merged to form IJCE had editors in three countries; the initial group of IJCE editors represents six countries, as well as a variety of denominational backgrounds. We will continue to work towards including additional regions as we are able, but hope that even this initial expansion will help lay the basis for a genuinely international scholarly conversation about Christianity and education. Here, then, is the current group of editors, with a little information about their own research interests in this field.