Submission INFORMATION

Peer Review Process

Canadian Art Teacher works with a double-blind peer review process. Each manuscript is blind and reviewed by at least two reviewers with feedback provided to authors upon completion.  If revisions are required, authors will be expected to submit a revised manuscript to address and delineate the revisions and changes.  

This process is designed for:

• Academic professionals (professors, assistant professors)

• Those with extensive publishing experience

If you elect to submit your work for CAT's peer review process, you are requested to prepare your work so that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.  Authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. 

TITLE PAGE:  Submit the Title Page containing the Author's details and Blinded Manuscript with no author details as 2 separate files.  This should include the title, authors' names and affiliations, and a complete address for the corresponding author including telephone and e-mail address.

MANUSCRIPT: Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review, such as:

• Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2020]” .

• Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation-related identifier

• Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper.

• Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows:  ‘[Anonymous, 2020]’.

• For blinding in the reference list:  ‘[Anonymous 2020] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’

• Remove references to funding sources

• Do not include acknowledgments

• Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized.

Peer Mentor Process

Canadian Art Teacher is committed to creating an inclusive publishing experience.  We acknowledge that not all artists, teachers and scholars have experience submitting and publishing their work within national journals.  We aim to complicate the current hegemonic publishing practices by offering editing and publishing support via our peer mentor process.

If your work is accepted for publication via the peer mentor process, experienced editors from CAT will work directly with you to give you conceptual feedback on your ideas and intentions, organizational feedback on your writing voice, style, and logistical support to ensure that your work follows academic publication guidelines

This process is designed for:

• Those who are inexperienced with the publishing process

• Working Undergraduate/Secondary Teachers 

• Artists 

• Graduate or Ph.D. students 

• Undergraduate/Secondary students

Please note, with respect, due to the output of time and care that the CAT editors are taking with your work, if you choose to participate in the mentoring process, it is expected that you will continue with the progress until its completion; publishing your work with CAT.

Articles

We are looking for journal articles to be from 2500 to 3500 words, with an abstract (of no more than 150 words) and appropriate references. The body text is single-spaced, justified, Times New Roman, 12pt font. Page numbers are not neccessary. 

Please consult previous articles found in past issues of CAT to follow the same format. 

We encourage prospective author(s) to respect the following guidelines and format for submission:

1) Title. The first page starts with the article title and the first letter of each word is capitalized according to APA 7th formatting. The title is in Times New Roman, 18 pt, aligned left. A blank line follows the title.

2) Abstract. The abstract follows the blank line with the title "Abstract" in bold. The text immediately follows on the same line. The abstract is followed by a blank line.

Example: Abstract: This paper addresses….

3) Keywords. Keywords (5 max) follow with the same formatting as the abstract and are separated by semi-colons.

Example: Keywords: Arts; Education

4) Text body. The body of the text follows. The body text is single spaced in Times New Roman. 

5) Subtitles. Each subtitle is in bold, 12 pt, with no indent or colon. Subheadings are also in 12 pt, underlined, with no indentation or colon.

7) Visuals, whether as illustration or the central focus, are encouraged. Figures, images, photographs, drawings, tables, and diagrams that are directly inserted into the text must be centered and labeled with appropriate credits for copyright and in accordance with APA 7th style format.  Conversely, you may also add a note in the text for where you wish the images to appear.  or share the original image files  and our graphic designer will place them at key points in your article.  In this instance, please share an additional document with the appropriate labels for your images. 

For Photographs: 

It is the author's responsibility to acquire permission for submitted images.  If there are clear images of facial features other than the author, permission must be granted by each person visible.  If the images are of children (under 18), then permission must be obtained from a parent and/or guardian.  If images are submitted of artworks other than the author, such as examples of student works, permission to share these images must also be obtained.   If there is confusion about this and/or a form is required to obtain permissions, please email canadianartteacher.cat@gmail.com directly. 

8) All artwork and images must be of high resolution (JPG/PNG minimum 300 dpi) and accompanied by appropriate credits, permissions, and copyright.

9) Acknowledgements. Acknowledgments, (including any use of generative AI) are located directly before the References at the end of the paper.

10) References. All references use APA style (7th Edition). In the reference section, please include hyperlinks to the article’s DOI by highlighting it and using Word's Insert Hyperlink tool and the article’s URL.

11) Endnotes. Authors must use endnotes, not footnotes. Endnotes should be at the very end of the manuscript after the references. Footnotes, if any (these must be limited), are placed at the appropriate places in the text.

12) Not previously published. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.

Creative Works

We are interested in creative works that explore themes relevant to Art Education.   Creative works are considered a manifestation of creative effort which could include (or combinations of):

• fine artwork (sculpture, paintings, drawing, sketching, performance art)

• writing (literature)

• gallery shows, installations

You are encouraged to submit an artistic intention (approx 100-200 words) that explains your intentions with your artwork and situates it and you as an artist within the field of Art Education. 

Due to the digital nature of our publications, artistic works are requested to be submitted in digital forms as images: (300 dpi) JPG or PNG (max 20 MB). 

For Photographs: 

It is the author's responsibility to acquire permission for submitted images.  If there are clear images of facial features other than the author, permission must be granted by each person visible.  If the images are of children (under 18), then permission must be obtained from a parent and/or guardian.  If images are submitted of artworks other than the author, such as examples of student works, permission to share these images must also be obtained.   If there is confusion about this and/or a form is required to obtain permissions, please email canadianartteacher.cat@gmail.com directly. 

Making Discoveries

(BOOK/GALLERY/HAPPENINGS REVIEWS)

The Making Discoveries section publishes reviews of books, gallery shows, art happenings related to the field of arts education research, and issues as outlined in CAT's focus and scope. The purpose of the review is to provide readers with a critical evaluation and/or creative response to the book/gallery show/happening.

For Making Discoveries, you are encouraged to submit approx. 1000 words. Please write in accessible language.

When drafting your review, please consider the following (as relevant):

• aims of the book/gallery show/happening and whether the aims were achieved;

• the background of the author/artist and their expertise in the subject;

• for edited books, the important themes and questions raised in the book, and the chapters that directly speak to these themes and questions;

• appropriateness of the methodology, including sources used;

• the audience who might benefit from the book/gallery show/happening;  

• implications of the book/gallery show/happening for arts education practice, theory, research, and policy;

• how the book/gallery show/happening compares to other scholarship in the field;

• any creative responses generated from the review (optional), which may take the form of a poetic sounding, a visual arts response, etc.;

• constructive comments about the strength and weaknesses of the book/gallery show/happening.

Submitting author(s) you are encouraged to respect the following guidelines and format for written submissions:

Follow APA 7th Edition formatting. The body text is single-spaced, justified, Times New Roman, 12pt font. Page numbers are not neccessary. Include keywords (max 5) for your submission. 

Artist-Teacher 

The Artist-Teacher section highlights the delicate balancing act of being an artist and a teacher.  We are cognizant that each artist-teacher explores their own creative practice in their own unique fulfilling way.  We find each process and artistic outcome inspirational and aspire to share the many varied incantations of what being an artist-teacher may encompass. 

For each issue, we highlight the work of an Artist Teacher through a reflective rationale as well as a accompanying insert.  The insert is intended to highlight the creative aspects of the artist-teachers work and intended to be visually impactful, serving not only as an inspiration for our readers but something that art teachers can post within their classrooms.

For more information and the link to submit your interest in being featured as an Artist-Teacher CLICK HERE

Generative AI is evolving rapidly and there is not yet general consensus on how to acknowledge and reference it.  From our perspective at CAT, we encourage you to endeavour to understand the limitations and risks of using generative AI before you consider its use.  Please consider:

• Generative AI produces information that may be inaccurate, biased, or outdated.

• Generative AI is not an original source of information: it reproduces information from unidentified sources.

• Generative AI may fabricate quotations and citations. It is always best to refer to original and credible sources of information.

If you do choose to use generative AI tools, we encourage you to critically evaluate any output it produces and acknowledge its use.

For any submission to CAT, the use of generative AI must be acknowledged in an ‘Acknowledgements’ section at the end of your work in any instance where it has been used as a functional tool to assist in the process of creating academic work.

The minimum requirement to include in acknowledgment:

• Name and version of the generative AI system used; e.g. ChatGPT-3.5

• Publisher (the company that made the AI system); e.g. OpenAI

• URL of the AI system.

• Brief description (single sentence) of the context in which the tool was used.

For example: 

I acknowledge the use of ChatGPT 3.5 (Open AI, https://chat.openai.com) to summarise my initial notes and to proofread my final draft.

Canadian Art Teacher honours the work of our submitters.  Therefore, CAT authors retain the copyright of their individual articles and each article is published under the Creative Commons Licensing code: 

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 : Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Canadian Art Teacher values the creative artistic process of developing and designing each individual issue in a unique and relevant way to showcase and highlight the work of our art educatiors, artists and teachers.  CAT also would like to honour the work of our editorial team, communications committee and graphic designers.  Therefore each issue is copyrighted as an original creation: 

© 2022 Canadian Society For Education through Art (CSEA-SCÉA).

PRIVACY INFORMATION

The names and email addresses entered in the (Canadian Art Teacher) journal submissions will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.