About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Revista Educación, Saberes y Territorios is an academic journal of the Faculty of Education at Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile. It is an open access, continuous publication journal available in electronic format.

Its purpose is to contribute to the critical problematization of the practices and conditions that strain socio-educational reality. It is likewise concerned with educational phenomena that go beyond formal educational settings. This entails understanding territory as a social and symbolic setting whose knowledge and ways of knowing shape educational experience. Territory is conceived as a space where educational practices and identities are produced and reconfigured as part of formation.

In line with this purpose, the journal expects authors to offer discussions that advance knowledge in educational research, improve pedagogical practices and inform decision-making within educational institutions, from an interdisciplinary perspective.

It is addressed to researchers, graduate students, teachers and actors of the educational system at national and international level.

Subject areas

The journal welcomes the diversity of phenomena that make up educational contexts —teaching and learning processes, teacher education, school culture and management, pedagogical practices and identity, among others— organised along the following lines:

  • Educational policy
  • Intercultural education
  • Rural education
  • Technology and educational innovation
  • Teacher education and professional development
  • Educational management

Sections

Articles. Original academic and argumentative texts reporting the results of empirical research, offering a rigorous and analytical view of the topics discussed.

Essays. Academic and argumentative works that ground and discuss the relevance of a topic in the Educational Sciences, within the editorial scope of the journal.

Book reviews. Works based on a publication released within the last three years, offering a critical reading from a distinctive and in-depth perspective on the reviewed work.

All contributions undergo double-blind peer review.

Work the journal does not publish

  • Academic or non-academic summaries of a topic.
  • Evaluations of programmes resulting from educational intervention or innovation in general.
  • Results of surveys, scales, tests or other standardised or non-standardised instruments.
  • Opinion pieces.
  • Studies lacking theoretical and methodological clarity or rigour.
  • Letters.

Editorial team

  • Dr. Daniel San Martín Cantero — Editor. Department of Education and Innovation, Universidad Católica de Temuco.
  • Dr. Luz Valoyes-Chávez — Associate Editor. Department of Didactics and Practice, Universidad Católica de Temuco.
  • Dr. Vanesa Valdebenito Zambrano — Associate Editor. Department of Education and Innovation, Universidad Católica de Temuco.
  • Dr. Georgina Jiménez Durán — Technical Editor. Centre for Teaching Development and Innovation, Universidad Católica de Temuco.

Scientific committee

  • Dr. María Eugenia Alvarado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico.
  • Dr. Carolina Hidalgo Standen, Universidad de La Frontera, Chile.
  • Dr. Patricia Castillo Ladino, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile.
  • Dr. María José Reyes Andreani, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
  • Dr. Fernando José Martins, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Brazil.
  • Dr. Vanessa Neto, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
  • Dr. Beatriz Guerrero, Universidad del Valle, Colombia.
  • Dr. Víctor Díaz Estévez, Universidad de La Frontera, Chile.
  • Dr. Carlos Arriagada-Hernández, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Chile.
  • Dr. Alexander Montes Miranda, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia.
  • Dr. Arlett Krausse, Universidad de La Frontera, Chile.
  • Dr. Juan Sánchez García, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico.
  • Dr. Víctor Carvajal Mardones, Universidad de Valencia, Spain.
  • Dr. Neisa Gómez Díaz, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia.
  • Dr. Juan Carlos Chaucono Catrinao, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile.
  • Dr. Juan Mansilla Sepúlveda, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile.
  • Dr. Omar Aravena Kennigs, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile.
  • Dr. Enrique Riquelme Mella, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile.
  • Dr. Alejandra González Hermosilla, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile.
  • Dr. Mario Díaz Díaz, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile.
  • Dr. Omar Turra Díaz, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile.
  • Dr. Rodrigo Fuentealba Jara, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Chile.
  • Dr. Alejandra Nocetti De La Barra, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Chile.
  • Dr. Gonzalo Muñoz Stuardo, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.

The scientific committee advises the journal; its members act as reviewers of the manuscripts received and distribute proposals to external reviewers. It also proposes special issues relevant to the development of the journal.

Open access policy

Revista Educación, Saberes y Territorios provides immediate open access to all of its content, on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. No subscription or registration is required to read or download published articles.

Article processing charges (APC)

The journal does not charge any fee for the submission, processing or publication of articles. The entire editorial process is free of charge for authors.

Copyright and licensing

Content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. This licence allows others to share, remix and adapt published articles, provided that appropriate credit is given to the authors and the content is not used for commercial purposes.

Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication. The views expressed in the articles are the sole responsibility of their authors and do not necessarily represent the position of the journal or of Universidad Católica de Temuco.

Language policy

The journal receives and publishes work in Spanish, English and Portuguese. Regardless of the language of the manuscript, the title, abstract and keywords must be provided both in the original language of the work and in English. Where the research involves Indigenous populations, authors are asked to include an additional abstract in the Indigenous language of the participants.

Peer review policy

The journal applies a double-blind peer review process, ensuring that both authors and reviewers remain anonymous and have no access to each other's identity.

  1. Preliminary assessment. The editorial team checks that the manuscript fits the editorial scope, the journal's sections and the author guidelines, and verifies its originality. At this stage a manuscript may be rejected or returned for formal adjustments without proceeding to external review.
  2. External review. Manuscripts that pass the preliminary assessment are sent to at least two experts in the topic and methodology of the work, who use the evaluation form defined by the journal for each type of contribution.
  3. Editorial decision. On the basis of the reports received, the editorial team communicates one of the following decisions: accept, accept with minor revisions, request major revisions with a further round of review, or reject. Where reports disagree, a third review will be requested. The final decision rests with the editorial team.

Evaluation criteria consider the originality and relevance of the contribution, theoretical and methodological rigour, the quality and consistency of the results, the clarity of the writing and the adequacy of the references. Authors are asked to anonymise the manuscript and the file metadata before submission.

Reviewers must inform the editorial team of any conflict of interest with the authors or the subject of the manuscript, in which case they will be excluded from the process. Manuscripts under review are confidential documents and may not be shared, circulated or used for purposes other than the review itself.

Originality and plagiarism policy

The journal is committed to academic integrity and research ethics. All manuscripts received are screened for similarity using Compilatio software before proceeding to external review.

Manuscripts presenting unattributed matches, or levels of similarity incompatible with the journal's standards of originality, will be rejected or returned to the authors for correction. Properly attributed quotations and references are not counted as matches. Authors must attach a signed originality declaration confirming that the manuscript is original and unpublished, is not under review elsewhere, and contains no plagiarised material.

Artificial intelligence policy

The journal recognises that generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools can support academic work while at the same time requiring safeguards of transparency and accountability. This policy is aligned with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).

Authorship

AI tools cannot be listed as authors of a work, nor cited as such. Authorship entails responsibility for the content, the capacity to approve the final version and to account for the integrity of the work — conditions that an automated system cannot meet.

Author responsibilities

  • Disclose use. Any use of generative AI in the conception, writing, analysis, translation or editing of the manuscript must be explicitly disclosed in a dedicated section of the work, stating the tool, its version and the purpose for which it was used. The use of spell checkers, reference managers and conventional editing tools does not require disclosure.
  • Accept responsibility. Authors are fully responsible for the content of the manuscript, including any sections supported by AI. They must verify the accuracy of all data, quotations and references, and account for the absence of plagiarism and fabricated content. Non-existent or inaccurate references generated by these tools constitute a breach of academic integrity.
  • Protect third-party data. Confidential information and personal or sensitive data concerning research participants must not be entered into AI tools.
  • Images and figures. Images, figures or data generated or altered by AI are not accepted, except where they are the object of the study itself, in which case this must be explicitly disclosed.

Reviewer and editor responsibilities

  • Manuscripts under review are confidential documents. They must not be uploaded, in whole or in part, to generative AI tools or to platforms that may store or reuse their content, as this constitutes a breach of the confidentiality of the process.
  • The review report must be written by the reviewer. AI cannot replace expert judgement or draft the report.
  • The editorial team does not delegate editorial decisions to automated tools; such decisions always remain a human responsibility.

Non-compliance

Substantive and undisclosed use of generative AI will be considered a breach of academic integrity and may lead to rejection of the manuscript or, if detected after publication, to its correction or retraction under the corresponding policy.

Publication ethics

The journal adheres to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and to the Singapore Statement on Research Integrity.

Conflicts of interest

Authors must disclose any financial, institutional or personal relationship that may have influenced the development, results or conclusions of the work, as well as all sources of funding. They guarantee that the results presented reflect the findings of the research fully and honestly. Reviewers must report any conflict of interest and withdraw from the process where appropriate.

Authorship responsibility

All signatories must have contributed significantly to the development of the research and the manuscript. The contribution of each must be specified according to the CRediT taxonomy, stating the role performed and the percentage of contribution.

Research ethics safeguards

Studies involving human beings must have been conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki or equivalent ethical standards. The manuscript must describe the ethical procedures applied, how informed consent or assent was obtained and, where applicable, approval of the protocol by an accredited ethics committee, stating its name and approval number.

Research using personal or sensitive data must comply with applicable national and international data protection legislation and indicate how the privacy of the information was safeguarded. The use of photographs in which people appear requires the corresponding authorisations and must not cause harm or detriment to those appearing in them. The editorial committee may request additional documentation supporting the ethical and legal compliance of the study.

Retractions and corrections policy

Retraction. The journal is committed to safeguarding the integrity of published articles and the trust of readers, researchers and the scientific community. Where serious errors, misconduct or ethical problems are identified in a published article, the journal will proceed with a retraction in accordance with COPE guidelines. Grounds for retraction include, among others, plagiarism, fabrication or manipulation of data, serious methodological errors, ethical conflicts, duplicate publication and authorship disputes. The retracted article will remain available on the journal's site with a visible note indicating its status.

Post-publication correction. Where the error is minor and does not invalidate the main conclusions of the article, it will be corrected by means of an editorial correction note or erratum. In all cases the electronic version will be preserved and the notices will be made clearly and unambiguously.