Focus and Scope

JGK (Jurnal Guru Kita) aims to be a scientific platform that presents various aspects of education from various perspectives. This journal contains various topics that are relevant to the development and improvement of the education system, policies, learning methods, and updates in the world of education. The focus of this journal is as follows:

1. Teacher Professional Development

This journal focuses on the continuous development of teachers, including training, curriculum development, competency development, and best teaching practices.

2. Early Childhood Education

This journal discusses early childhood development and education, including appropriate learning approaches, children's social, emotional, and cognitive development.

3. Learning Evaluation and Measurement

This journal explores various methods of evaluating and measuring learning outcomes, including formative and summative assessments, performance-based assessment techniques, and the use of data to enhance learning.

4. Global Citizenship Education

This journal explores teaching and learning related to global citizenship, inclusion of democratic values, human rights, and active participation in global society.

5. Language and Literature Education

The focus of this journal is on language and literature learning, including strategies for teaching a second language, literary literacy, and developing speaking and writing skills.

6. Inclusive and Disabled Education

This journal focuses on efforts to integrate students with special needs into the general education setting, including adapted learning strategies and development of inclusive curricula.

7. Character Education

This journal discusses character education and moral values in the context of formal education, including the implementation of character building programs in schools.

8. Technical and Vocational Education

This journal focuses on technical, vocational, and skills education, including technical curriculum development, job training, and student preparation for industry.

9. Mathematics and Natural Sciences Education

This journal discusses the teaching and learning of mathematics and the natural sciences, including innovative teaching strategies, research on conceptual understanding, and the application of technology in learning.

10. Art and Creativity Education

The focus of this journal is on arts education, including visual arts, music, dance, and theatre, as well as the application of creativity in cross-disciplinary learning processes.

11. Media Literacy Education

This journal discusses media literacy education, helps students understand and critically analyze media content, and promotes responsible media use.

12. Information and Communication Technology Education

This journal explores the use of information and communication technology in learning, including the use of e-learning platforms, learning applications, and technology integration in the curriculum.

13. Project Based Education

This journal focuses on a project-based learning approach, in which students learn through hands-on experience completing real projects.

14. 21st Century Education

This journal discusses how education can adapt curricula, methods, and approaches to prepare students for the demands of the 21st century, such as critical thinking skills, creativity, and collaboration.

15. Social Science and Humanities Education

This journal focuses on the teaching and learning of the social sciences, including history, economics, sociology, and other humanities disciplines, highlighting relevant teaching methods.

16. Others Related to Education

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Peer reviewers and the editorial board assess manuscripts that will be published in JGK (Jurnal Guru Kital). The review process is carried out using double anonymous peer review, where the identities of the author and reviewer remain anonymous. The Editor-in-Chief and editorial board are responsible for all communications with the author and determining whether the manuscript is suitable for publication, rejected, or needs revision.

The review process is carried out both by internal journals (Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board) and externally (reviewers who are experts in their fields). Before entering the review stage, the manuscript will be checked to detect possible plagiarism. After passing the prequalification stage, the manuscript will be evaluated by two peer reviewers selected by the Editor-in-Chief or editorial board.

Peer reviewers are asked to provide recommendations to the Editor-in-Chief as quickly as possible (usually within four weeks). The final decision to accept or reject a manuscript rests with the Editor-in-Chief. Manuscripts that require revision will be returned to the author, and after revision, will be considered again by the Editorial Board.

The Editorial Board has two weeks to recommend whether the manuscript should be returned to the author, accepted, or rejected. The final decision to revise the manuscript will be discussed at an editorial board meeting, with possible outcomes in the form of rejection, major revision, minor revision, or acceptance.

The Editor-in-Chief will send an official notification to the author regarding the decision regarding publication of the manuscript, along with a reprint of the revised manuscript. The average number of weeks between article submission and publication is up to eight weeks.

Publication Frequency

The Guru Kita Journal publishes articles four times a year, namely in March, June, September, December

Open Access Policy

JGK (Jurnal Guru Kita) provides direct open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports greater global exchange of knowledge. JGK (Jurnal Guru Kita) started open access publication starting in 2017.

JGK (Jurnal Guru Kita) holds the principle that all research is for the benefit of humanity worldwide. Research is a product of investment by society and the results should be returned to society as a whole without limits and discrimination, serving the community, universally and transparently. That is why JGK (Jurnal Guru Kita) provides free and open online access to all its research publications. All accepted articles will be available and freely accessed or downloaded on the website https://jurnal.unimed.ac.id/2012/index.php/jgkp/index without limit and without charge. JGK (Jurnal Guru Kita) understands that in the world everyone has the same opportunity to seek, share and create knowledge. We hope authors will join us in this open access concept.

Archiving

JGK (Jurnal Guru Kita) uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed filing system among participating libraries and allows those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes. More...

JGK (Jurnal Guru Kita) sends its content to the Indonesian library database, Onesearch, Garuda (Garba Rujukan Digital) and several journal indexing agencies, so that the availability of data is always maintained and accessible.

Screening Plagiarism

The Editorial Board of JGK (Jurnal Guru Kita) has realized that plagiarism is an unacceptable act. Therefore, we have authorized the following policy that stipulates specific actions (penalties) against cases of identification of plagiarism or similarity in articles submitted for publication in the JGK (Jurnal Guru Kita). JGK (Jurnal Guru Kita) will use Turnitin software to check the originality of the article manuscript and compare it with the final version of the article ready for publication. We allow up to 24% similarity in submitted papers (exclude quote & bibliography). If a similarity index of more than 24% is found, the article will be returned to the author for correction and resubmission.

Each paper must be original, not previously published, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Any material taken directly from other sources must be clearly identified through indentation, quotation marks, and indication of the source.

If any text exceeds fair use standards (which we define as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent) or if any graphic material is taken from another source, then permission from the copyright holder should be obtained, where possible, along with an indication of the original source.

When plagiarism is detected, the Editor-in-Chief will review the paper and will take appropriate action according to the level of plagiarism identified, in accordance with the following guidelines:

Level of Plagiarism

Minor Plagiarism:
This involves plagiarizing a small number of sentences or short paragraphs from another manuscript without taking significant data or ideas from another paper or publication.
Action: The author will be given a warning and asked to correct the manuscript and cite the original source correctly.

Intermediate Plagiarism:
This involves plagiarizing significant data, paragraphs, or sentences from an article without including appropriate citations from the original source.
Action: The submitted article will be automatically rejected.

Severe Plagiarism:
This includes plagiarism that involves a large part of the article and includes reproduction of original results (data, formulations, equations, laws, statements, etc.), ideas, and methods that have been presented in other publications.
Action: The paper will be automatically rejected and the author will be prohibited from submitting further articles to the journal.

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JGK (Jurnal Guru Kita)

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