ARTSPRAXIS responds to the call for a rich dialogue between all those committed to the arts in educational and community contexts. The journal includes contributions from arts educators, therapists, arts agencies, arts administrators, funding bodies, arts scholars, and community artists from diverse settings. The journal emphasizes critical analysis of the arts in society.

ARTSPRAXIS provides a platform for contributors to interrogate why the arts matter and how the arts can be persuasively argued for in a range of domains. The pressing issues which face the arts in society are deconstructed. Contributors are encouraged to write in a friendly and accessible manner appropriate to a wide readership. Nonetheless, contributions should be informed and scholarly, and must demonstrate the author’s knowledge of the material being discussed. Clear compelling arguments are preferred, arguments which are logically and comprehensively supported by the appropriate literature. Authors are encouraged to articulate how their research design best fits the question (s) being examined. Research design includes the full range of quantitative and qualitative methods, including arts-based inquiry; case study, narrative and ethnography; historical and autobiographical; experimental and quasi-experimental analysis; survey and correlation research. Articles which push the boundaries of research design and those which encourage innovative methods of presenting findings are encouraged.

Contributions which seek dialogue across the art forms are welcomed. Current issues include contributions from the annual NYU Forum series as well as those submitted from a cross section of researchers and practitioners in the Educational and Applied Theatre field. Our goal is to motivate a dialogue that will enrich the development of educational theatre in the coming years.

ARTSPRAXIS currently publishes at least two peer-reviewed issues per year. There are no fees associated with review or publication. ARTSPRAXIS is an open access journal, free to all viewers. ARTSPRAXIS is published by the NYU Steinhardt Program in Educational Theatre; author(s) retain copyright of the work though they have given irrevocable right to reproduce, transmit, distribute, make available through an archive, sell, and otherwise use the Accepted Contribution as it is published in the Journal. At the same time, author(s) is permitted to print, post, or otherwise distribute the Journal’s PDF version of the accepted contribution.

Editorial correspondence and article submissions should be addressed to the editor, Dr. Jonathan P. Jones.

NYU Program in Educational Theatre 

82 Washington Square East, Room 223

New York, NY 10003

ARTSPRAXIS is archived in the NYU Faculty Digital Archive. 

Scholars who have previously published work in ARTSPRAXIS are invited to join the Editorial Board by the journal editor on a biennial basis. Additionally, scholars are encouraged to initiate a request to join the Editorial Board by submitting an email to the editor outlining their interest and experience, and providing a copy of their CV. There is no set term for participation in the Editorial Board and members may resign from the board at any time.

• Selina Busby, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK

• Manjima Chatterjee, Shiv Nadar School, India

• Durell Cooper, Cultural Innovation Group, USA

• Rivka Eckert, State University of New York, College at Potsdam, USA

• Rosalind M. Flynn, The Catholic University of America, USA

• Kelly Freebody, The University of Sydney, Australia

• Anna Glarin, York St John University, UK

• Courtney Grile, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA

• Norifumi Hida, Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University, Japan

• Byoung-joo Kim, Seoul National University of Education, South Korea

• Gillian McNally, University of Northern Colorado, USA

• David Montgomery, New York University, USA

• Amanda Pinkham-Brown, The School District of Philadelphia, USA

• Ross Prior, University of Wolverhampton, UK

• Amanda Rutter, The University of Texas Permian Basin, USA

• Sara Schroeter, University of Regina, Canada

• Nkululeko Sibanda, Rhodes University, South Africa

• Daphnie Sicre, University of California at Riverside, USA

• Tammie Swopes, New York University, USA

• Amanda Wager, Vancouver Island University, Canada

• James Webb, Davidson College, USA

• Gustave Weltsek, Indiana University Bloomington, USA

• Petronilla Whitfield, Arts University Bournemouth, UK

ARTSPRAXIS currently publishes two issues per year, generally according to the following schedule:

March 1: Manuscript Submission Deadline for Issue 1

June: Issue 1 Publication 

October 1: Manuscript Submission Deadline for Issue 2

December: Issue 2 Publication 

ARTSPRAXIS is an open access journal, freely available to all readers. While the publication is accessible through our online homepage (https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/artspraxis/), the journal is permanently archived in the NYU Faculty Digital Archive (https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/75065). 

ARTSPRAXIS is published by the NYU Steinhardt Program in Educational Theatre; author(s) retain copyright of the work though they have given irrevocable right to reproduce, transmit, distribute, make available through an archive, sell, and otherwise use the Accepted Contribution as it is published in the Journal. At the same time, author(s) is permitted to print, post, or otherwise distribute the Journal’s PDF version of the accepted contribution. This allows for immediate free access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.

There are no fees required for authors or readers. Print editions of new issues are often offered for sale through Amazon.com for the minimum fee allowed by the Kindle Direct Publishing Platform. In this way, no royalties are earned by the publication.

Relative to licensing, authors retain the right to republish their article anywhere and at any time provided that they indicate that the work originally appeared in ARTSPRAXIS.

Upon initial submission, authors receive an acknowledgement email on or within one week of the submission deadline.

The journal editor then provides an initial review of the manuscript to ensure that the content fits the frame of the journal as outlined in the general Aims and Scope. Some issues have special topics or guidelines that may narrow the scope, and the journal editor or guest editor will provide initial review through that lens when appropriate.

If the article is initially accepted, the author will receive an email notification that their article is moving forward to peer review. If not, the editor or guest editor will provide rationale for why the article will not move forward. These notifications will be made within one month of the submission deadline.

ARTSPRAXIS has a single-blind review process. As such, the reviewers remain anonymous though the manuscript authors are known to the reviewers. 

All manuscripts are peer reviewed by two or more reviewers. Most reviewers are from the Editorial Board, though the editor or guest editor may invite additional peer reviewers based on subject-matter expertise, research methodology expertise, or in aid of avoiding conflicts of interest. 

Peer reviewers are never affiliated with the authors–and it is up to the editor or guest editor to ensure compliance with this policy.

For the peer review, reviewers are given 3-4 weeks time to provide feedback as follows:

• Publication Recommendation* (Article should be published as is with no revisions; Article should be published with minor revisions; Article should be published with major revisions; Article should not be published)

• Contribution the Article Makes to the Arts Community*

• Suggestions for Revision (Be as specific as possible)

• If the Article Is Considered Unacceptable, Recommend Other Publishing Outlets

• Optional Additional Feedback for the Author

• Optional Additional Comments for Editor (Not to be shared with author) 

* - Required Item

The distinction between major and minor revisions may be ambiguous, so to clarify: major revisions are those to do with the structure and content of the writing whereas minor revisions are those to do with language use, mechanics, and writing conventions.

The readership of ArtsPraxis is diverse; as such, peer reviewers should assume that readers may include a variety of artists, arts educators, and scholars. 

Peer reviewer comments are compiled by the editor or guest editor and sent to the author as soon as possible.

• If the article is accepted for publication with minor revisions, the author will have 4 weeks to revise and submit the article for final review by the editor or guest editor. While the author is encouraged to delineate specific changes they have made to the manuscript in response to the peer review feedback, this is not required.

• If the article is accepted for publication with major revisions, the author will have 4 weeks to revise and submit the article for final review by the editor or guest editor. Depending on the scope of revisions recommended, the editor or guest editor may require that the manuscript is delayed to a future issue such that it can be peer reviewed a second time. While the author is encouraged to delineate specific changes they have made to the manuscript in response to the peer review feedback, this is not required.

Instructions for submitting manuscripts for publication are updated regularly in each call for proposals. CFPs for the upcoming issue are released concurrently with the publication of an issue and accessible from the ARTSPRAXIS Welcome and CFP page.

ARTSPRAXIS follows a revised version of the American Psychological Association (APA) Style Guide, as outlined here: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines

Revisions to the APA style guide are as follows:

• For In-Text Citations (ex. Author, year, p. 20), if the reference is to information from a range of pages, change (p.) to (pp.).

• Note the commas between Author, Year, and Page - these are required. 

• If you have multiple citations within one set of parentheses, list them in alphabetical order and separate them with a semi-colon - ex. (Jones, 2024, p. ii; Leavy, 2019, pp. 67-69)

• For Reference Lists at the end of the article, if the reference is from an academic journal:

  • Skip a space between the volume and the issue number - ex. ArtsPraxis, 8 (2) instead of 8(2) 

• For Reference Lists at the end of the article, do not list an open URL. DOIs are fine - but never list a full URL. Instead, make the article title a hyperlink to the URL

Authors are strongly encouraged to use heading functions within their Word Processing Applications. In the PDF version of the articles, the font size and color for headings will be consistent throughout the headings and main text of the article. The headings in the PDF will generally appear as follows:

HEADING ONE - capital letters, bold; 11pt font

Heading Two - bold; 11pt font; italics 

Heading Three - 11pt font

Most articles are published in English, though entire articles or parts of articles may be in another language. Authors may use British spellings or otherwise, provided that they are consistent in doing so.

For ArtsPraxis, we do not have required guidelines for book reviews - though we have encouraged authors to follow these recommendations published by San Jose State. 

And you can see two reviews that used this structure:

Swopes - Review of Dana Edell's Girls, Performance and Activism

Jones - Review of Julian Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed and Its Times

Book reviews should be approximately 1,500 words. Along with the review, we will also need a biography for the reviewer - roughly 150 words. Book reviews are due 1 month after the submission deadline for regular articles.

Authors affiliated with academic institutions or large cultural institutions are expected to follow the guidelines from their respective Institutional Review Board (IRB). Authors do not need to submit statements or other qualifiers to affirm this as it will be presumed based on their submission of their manuscript. Liability for failure to comply with IRB policy rests with the author.

For authors whose affiliated institutions do not have an Institutional Review Board or process, authors must explain their ethical process in the methodological text within their article. This must include:

• a statement for how voluntary participation was ensured such that participants could opt in or out at any time

• a process for obtaining consent from research participants 

• the author’s approach to maintaining the anonymity of their participants and ensuring that all personally identifiable information is not collected

• steps the author has taken to avoid harm to participants or minimize it as much as possible 

Liability rests with the author.

ARTSPRAXIS publishes original work that has not been published elsewhere. 

If a work is discovered to have been published elsewhere in any stage of pre-publication, the manuscript will be withdrawn immediately. In the event that a manuscript is published and later found to have been previously published elsewhere, it will be retracted immediately and a statement of this retraction will appear in the next available issue of the journal. The retraction statement will include the name of author(s), their affiliation(s), and the title of the work as it appeared in ARTSPRAXIS.

Similarly, if an author is found to have plagiarized themself or another writer in any stage of pre-publication, the manuscript will be withdrawn immediately. In the event that a manuscript is published and later found to include material that has been plagiarized,  it will be retracted immediately and a statement of this retraction will appear in the next available issue of the journal. The retraction statement will include the name of author(s), their affiliation(s), and the title of the work as it appeared in ARTSPRAXIS. 

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