What’s So Special About Special Issues? A Discussion of Their Benefits and Challenges

IF 2.5 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-01-26 DOI:10.1177/10525629211072315

J. Leigh, Marissa S. Edwards

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Abstract

Welcome to our second issue of the year! As we are all experiencing, living through the COVID-19 crisis has been an emotionally draining time for us all. Now the pandemic continues to present challenges both in and outside of our classrooms due to new variants emerging and swiftly changing lockdowns and border restrictions. As we start our next terms, we recognize that many of our students are similarly exhausted, and they have struggled with numerous challenges throughout the last two years. There are places of hope where countries are sustaining some level of face-to-face instruction, other locations where universities are returning to the classroom, and in other locations, this is not possible yet. Similarly, in our professional lives, many domestic and international conferences will continue in virtual and hybrid mode in the first part of 2022. We remain cautiously optimistic that by midyear at the MOBTS 2022, we will be seeing our friends and colleagues faceto-face again and enjoying rich conversations and debates about important issues in our field. One of these debates includes how we might keep adapting our scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) research in these extraordinarily complex times. For decades Special Issues have been one of the key mechanisms for advancing SoTL. This editorial addresses some questions we have received from our readers in the past about Special Issues and we hope to unpack various unknown or opaque editorial processes for authors. Common questions

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特刊有什么特别之处？关于它们的好处和挑战的讨论

欢迎收看我们今年的第二期！正如我们所有人所经历的那样，经历新冠肺炎危机对我们所有人来说都是情绪枯竭的时刻。现在，由于新变种的出现以及迅速变化的封锁和边境限制，疫情继续在我们的课堂内外带来挑战。在我们开始下一学期的时候，我们认识到我们的许多学生也同样筋疲力尽，在过去的两年里，他们一直在与许多挑战作斗争。在一些充满希望的地方，各国正在维持一定程度的面对面教学，在其他地方，大学正在重返课堂，在其他地区，这还不可能。同样，在我们的职业生活中，2022年上半年，许多国内和国际会议将继续以虚拟和混合模式举行。我们仍然谨慎乐观地认为，到2022年年中，在MOBTS上，我们将再次与我们的朋友和同事面对面，并就我们领域的重要问题进行丰富的对话和辩论。其中一个争论包括，在这个异常复杂的时代，我们如何继续调整我们的教学学术（SoTL）研究。几十年来，特别问题一直是推进SoTL的关键机制之一。这篇社论解决了我们过去从读者那里收到的一些关于《特刊》的问题，我们希望为作者解开各种未知或不透明的编辑过程。常见问题

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Journal of Management Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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4.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Management Education (JME) encourages contributions that respond to important issues in management education. The overriding question that guides the journal’s double-blind peer review process is: Will this contribution have a significant impact on thinking and/or practice in management education? Contributions may be either conceptual or empirical in nature, and are welcomed from any topic area and any country so long as their primary focus is on learning and/or teaching issues in management or organization studies. Although our core areas of interest are organizational behavior and management, we are also interested in teaching and learning developments in related domains such as human resource management & labor relations, social issues in management, critical management studies, diversity, ethics, organizational development, production and operations, sustainability, etc. We are open to all approaches to scholarly inquiry that form the basis for high quality knowledge creation and dissemination within management teaching and learning.