EDITORIAL SCOPE.

Teaching Artist Journal (TAJ)provides an authoritative, timely, ongoing professional development resource to clarify,enrich and advance teaching artist research and practice. Teaching artists - professionals with skills in both teaching and the arts - have uniquely powerful perspectives, practices and skills. They make significant contributions and are a crucial resource to arts-in-education programs, to arts education and general education,and to the future of the arts as a whole. Until Teaching Artist Journal, there has been no national professional forum for their learning and development, no vehicle for their voices to be heard.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION:

Submissions of varying lengths and formats will be considered.Each submission should conform to the length specifications for the specific TAJ section for which it is submitted. Inclusion of visual elements (and artworks) is encouraged:images, photographs, tables and charts, etc. Prepare manuscripts according to Modern Language Association (MLA) style guidelines [further information can be found at www.mla.org .]. Creative and literary works need not fit the Modern Language Association (MLA) style guidelines. Please address questions about appropriate format for your submission and requests for the “TAJ Style Sheet” to: tajournal@colum.edu

All submissions are anonymously blind reviewed by a series of peer reviewers to assure unbiased response. To facilitate this process,please include only the article title on each page of the article, not the author(s) name(s).

Double space all components of the manuscript on one side of 8.5''x 11''nonsmear paper. Costs may limit inclusion of some visual elements, but every effort will be made to include them where relevant. All visual elements must be camera-ready.

The first page should include the title of the manuscript, authors ' names, affiliations, complete mailing addresses (including e-mail), and the telephone and fax numbers of the author to whom editorial correspondence is to be addressed. The second page should include the title (but no author identification), a word count, and should identify the section under which the submission applies.In a cover letter,authors should also include a statement that the contents of the article have not been published previously and are not under review by any other publication at this time.In articles that present original scientifically-based research, authors should also state that they have complied with American Psychological Association ethical standards in the treatment of their research samples.

Four identical copies should be submitted to: Teaching Artist Journal ,Center for Arts Policy, Columbia College Chicago, 600 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605. Please also e-mail an electronic version to tajournal@colum.edu. Submissions that conform to guidelines will receive an acknowledgment and statement of the review process.

SUBMISSIONS:

Neither a traditional scholarly journal (although it includes scholarly articles), nor a traditional professional publication (although it includes articles describing practice), TAJ is a broad, jargon-free, imaginative, direct and heartfelt peer-reviewed publication addressing the fullest range of practice, research, theory, opinion and issues related to teaching artists. It seeks to include a wide representation of artistic disciplines, of teaching artist approaches, of audiences involved and of cultural contexts. TAJ includes a variety of sections. Submissions for all sections are invited:

Practice, Research, Theory: Original articles in standard journal format. Suggested length: 2000 –4000 words.
Medley: Some teaching artists are disinclined to write articles; to include their voices TAJ will include original poems, artworks,transcripts of dialogs or interviews about teaching artistry,and other alternative presentation forms. Suggested length: 1500 –3000 words.
In My Opinion: An opinion piece about an issue in the field from a different writer in each issue. Suggested length:1000 –2000 words.
Research Review: Information on new research studies,reports and resources that will be of value to the teaching artist community. Submit information for this section to Susannah Brown: sbrow118@fau.edu
Resource Roundup: Key information to help teaching artists design their own ongoing learning, to provide reliable information on which to build strong advocacy and programs,and to help them increase their knowledge and skills as action researchers - including reviews of books, workshops, study units, software, and web sites research resources that are of value to the teaching artist community.Submit information for this section to Becca Barniskis: beccabarniskis@visi.com
Newsbreak: Information on conferences, grant opportunities, advocacy occasions, changes in the field that other teaching artists should know about, job openings. This section will serve as the “one place to go” for teaching artists to keep up with their field.. Submit information for this section to Laura Reeder: laura@arts4ed.org.
Letters to the Journal. A forum for readers to interact and respond to articles.

PERMISSIONS:

Authors are responsible for all statements made in their work and for obtaining permission from copyright owners to reprint previously published material,or to adapt a table or figure,or to include an artistic image, a quotation of more than 500 words, or a quotation of any length (even a single line) from a poem or song. To get such permissions, Authors should write to the original author(s) and publisher to request nonexclusive world rights in all languages to use the material in the article and in future editions. Provide copies of all permissions and a listing of all credit lines that should appear with the article at the time of manuscript submission. Contact the editor for sample permission request forms.