Focus And Scope

Athena: Physical Education and Sports Journalprovides a platform for research on the future challenges and developments that education will face. Athena: Physical Education and Sports Journal is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes original work in all areas of education, serving the community as a broad-scope journal for academic trends and future developments in the field. The journal publishes a broad range of article types and formats, and there are no limitations in theoretical, empirical or methodological content. Athena: Physical Education and Sports Journal particularly welcomes research with the potential for global impact, especially about perspective, and work on achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all.

Athena: Physical Education and Sports Journal covers a broad range of areas related to education in schools, universities, vocational institutions, early childhood settings and the community. It will be concerned with formal and informal education in multiple contexts with a particular focus on students, teachers and parents, their social interactions and the political contexts in which they are embedded. Athena: Physical Education and Sports Journal will be eclectic, which will support a full range of research methods that address critical and significant issues. Specific topics include (but are not limited to):

  • science education
  • digital education
  • engineering education
  • alternative education
  • art education
  • cooperative learning
  • critical pedagogy
  • distance education
  • educational leadership
  • educational philosophy
  • educational psychology
  • educational technology
  • primary education
  • secondary education
  • higher education
  • teaching and learning in medical education
  • special education
  • childhood education
  • physical education