The Journal of International Museum Education (JIMuseumED) is an online, academic journal that offers international, peer-reviewed, non-profit, free access to museum education at every educational level to publish research, review, critique, review, and translation articles. JIMuseumED, especially in international literature, including Turkey aims to develop museum education. JIMuseumED aims to be an important source of reference for researchers who are researching this area by collecting the works that are scattered especially in the fields of museum education, teaching in historical places, and out of school. Therefore, we invite researchers and authors from different disciplines to contribute to JIMuseumED. Our journal has all kinds of education-oriented museums, historical places, ruins, science centers, and so on. It accepts both qualitative and quantitative empirical research, review, and publication critiques.
The Journal of International Museum Education (JIMuseumED) is a JIMuseumED publishes articles on museum education. The scope of the journal includes:
1. Archeology, Ethnography, Science, etc. all kinds of museum studies in the context of the study,
2. Studies on the educational importance of Historical Sites, Science Centers,
3. Turkey and addressing the historical development of museum education work in the world,
4. Critical studies on books, textbooks, and journal articles on museum education,
5. Translation studies aiming to inform Turkish researchers about museum education in different countries.
JIMuseumED uses three publication templates, depending on the type of work you have. You can download the one related to your work:
Authors are required to fill in and upload the JIMuseumED Copyright Agreement Form on their work.
The use of the APA 6 style created by the American Psychological Association is preferred in the "Journal of International Museum Education".
You can find the short guide for APA 7 here.
APA Manual 7th edition: The most notable changes
1. The publisher's location is no longer included in the reference.
2. The in-text citation for works with three or more authors is now shortened right from the first citation. You only include the first author’s name and “et al.”.
3. Surnames and initials for up to 20 authors (instead of 7) should be provided in the reference list.
4. DOIs are formatted the same as URLs. The label “DOI:” is no longer necessary.
5. URLs are no longer preceded by “Retrieved from,” unless a retrieval date is needed. The website name is included (unless it’s the same as the author), and web page titles are italicized.
6. For ebooks, the format, platform, or device (e.g. Kindle) is no longer included in the reference, and the publisher is included.
7. Clear guidelines are provided for including contributors other than authors and editors. For example, when citing a podcast episode, the host of the episode should be included; for a TV series episode, the writer and director of that episode are cited.
8. Dozens of examples are included for online source types such as podcast episodes, social media posts, and YouTube videos. The use of emojis and hashtags is also explained.
9. The singular “they” or “their” is endorsed as a gender-neutral pronoun.
10. Instead of using adjectives as nouns to label groups of people, descriptive phrases are preferred.
11. Instead of broad categories, you should use exact age ranges that are more relevant and specific.
12. Use double quotation marks instead of italics to refer to linguistic examples.
Reference:
Streefkerk, R. (2020, February). APA Manual 7th edition: The most notable changes. Scribbr. https://www.scribbr.com/apa-style/apa-seventh-edition-changes/
Basic Principle of Reference by APA Style
The APA style is usually based on the following format:
Author. (Year). Title. Publication Information.
How to Make Citation in APA Format?
In the International Journal of Museum Education, the use of the APA 7 style created by the American Psychological Association is preferred.
Templates and examples of different publication types in APA format are given below.
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the Journal Template.
Printed Book
Author's Surname, Initial. (Year of Publication). Book Title. Broadcasting Organization.
Creswell, J. W. (1994). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. Sage.
Creswell, J. W. (2014). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (4th ed.). Sage.
Karasar, N. (2017). Scientific research method: Concepts, principles, techniques (32 bs.). Nobel.
Edited Book
Author's Surname, Initial, & Author's Surname, Initial. (Eds.) (Year of Publication). Book Title. Broadcasting Organization.
Duncan, G. J. & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Eds.). (1997). Consequences of growing up poor. Russell Sage Foundation.
Printed Journal Article
Author's Surname, Initial. (Year of Publication). Article name. Journal Title, Volume (Issue), Page. Doi URL
Nevin, A. (1990). The changing of teacher education.The Journal of the Teacher Education Division for Exceptional Children, 13(3-4), 147-148.
Online Journal Article
Author's Surname, Initial. (Year of Publication). Article name. Journal Title, Volume (Issue), Page. DOI URL
Öner, G. & Öztürk, M. (2019). Science centers as out-of-school learning and teaching spaces: Experience of prospective social studies teachers. Eskisehir Osmangazi University Journal of Social Sciences, 20(Special Issue), 1109-1135. https://doi.org/10.17494/ogusbd.555135
Karadeniz, C. & Okvuran, A. (2014). One night at the museum: Museum education in Ankara Archeology Museum with students from Ankara University. Primary Education Online, 13(3), 865‐879.
Üztemur, S., Dinç, E. & Acun, İ. (2018). The effect of museum and historical space usage on social studies perceptions of 7th grade students in social studies education: An action research. Theoretical Journal of Educational Science, 11(1), p135-168.
Öner, G. & Çengelci-Köse, T. (2019). Opinions of prospective Social Studies teachers to gain value and skills in museums and historical places. Turkish History Education Journal, 8(1), 98-128.
Spelling Information Table:
| Paper Size | A4 Vertical |
| Top Margin | 1 cm |
| Bottom Margin | 2,5 cm |
| Left Margin | 2,5 cm |
| Right Margin | 2 cm |
| Font | Palatino Linotype |
| Font Size (Normal text) | 10 |
| Font Size (Footnote text) | 8 |
| Table-graphic | 10 |
| Line and Paragraph Spacing | First 0 pt in the paragraph, then 12 pt (0 pt before and after in tables and graphs). In main headings, the interval is 12 pt before and after. Line spacing Single. Hanging in bibliography and indent 0.63 cm, Alignment: Justify, spacing before and after 6 nk, Line spacing Odd. |
Translation Articles:
This section aims to evaluate the Turkish translations of important articles published in any language other than Turkish in the field of Museum Education and to share them with Turkish readers.
The following issues should be considered when applying for a translation article:
1. Obtaining translation and re-publication permission from the person or institution holding the copyright of the work.
2. Translating the entire article into Turkish.
3. Do not make any additions to the main text in the translation and make the necessary explanations and evaluations in the footnote section.
4. To submit the original text and permission letter along with the Turkish translation of the work.
Ethical Responsibilities and Policies

Retractions and Malpractices Policy
Authors may withdraw their work while it is in the evaluation process.
If errors are detected in the published works, the Author may contact the editor and request corrections within 4 days after the publication. However, if 5 days or more have passed since the publication process, the author may request an error notification in the next issue. Editors are responsible for publishing this notice. The correction process is also indicated via Crossmark.
CrossMark Policy
Crossmark is a unique initiative from CrossRef to facilitate a standard way for readers to locate the authoritative version of a document. JIMuseumED maintains the Crossmark icon with a commitment to maintain the updated published content and alert readers whenever any change occurs in the published content. JIMuseumED understands the significance of the integrity and completeness of the scholarly record and attaches the highest importance to maintaining trust in the authority of its electronic archive. The Crossmark icon will be present on pdf versions of the article. When a reader clicks on the icon, he/she gets information about the current status of the published content and any information on additional publication record of that manuscript.
Authors regarding the evaluation result in JIMuseumED can use their appeals to jimuseumed@gmail.com e-mail addresses with their justifications and scientific grounds. Appeals are evaluated by the Editorial Board and feedback is provided to the authors. If the appeals are found positive, the Editorial Board may ensure that the study is re-evaluated with new referees.
Ethical Responsibilities of Referees

Plagiarism Screening

Metadata and full texts of all articles published in JIMuseumED are stored and presented in .pdf format on ULAKBİM servers via TUBITAK Dergipark Database.

Disclaimer
Privacy Statement
All personal information such as telephone, address, etc. requested when sending work to JIMuseumED will be used only when deemed necessary by the Editors to operate a healthy process. We declare that this information will not be used for other purposes and will not be shared with other people.
Unethical Behaviour
If you encounter an unethical situation other than the ethical responsibilities mentioned in the Ethical Principles and Publication Policy section of JIMuseumED, please report it to jimuseumed@gmail.com via e-mail.
Publishing Fee
JIMuseumED is a free journal. It does not charge any fee from the author(s) at any stage (sending, processing, and publishing).
JIMuseumED is a free journal. It does not charge any fee from the author(s) at any stage (sending, processing, and publishing).
Dr Amy Johnstone is Lecturer in Museum Studies at the University of Glasgow, with a specialism in digital education and museums.
AUJEF Editor-in-Chief
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Servet ÜZTEMUR
Martin Bílek graduated from the Faculty of Education in Hradec Králové (Czechia) in the field of chemistry and physics teaching, obtained a Ph.D. in pedagogy at the Faculty of Education of Charles University (Prague, Czechia) and was habilitated and inaugurated in the field of theory of chemistry teaching at the Faculty of Science at the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia).
Currently he works at the Faculty of Education of Charles University, where he has successively held the positions of Head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Didactics, Vice-Dean for Science and Research and Vice-Dean for Lifelong and Distance Education. Prior to that he worked at universities in the Czech Republic (UHK, UJEP) and abroad (NTNU Trondheim, University of Maribor, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, UKF in Nitra). In his professional activity he deals mainly with didactics of chemistry and his broader range of professional interests includes didactics of natural science and technical subjects, methodology of natural science cognition, pedagogical and disciplinary didactic research, use of ICT in education and other areas related to education and applied informatics. He is a member of a number of professional societies, scientific councils and expert committees, e.g. ad-hoc committees for pedagogical disciplines of the Slovak Higher Education Accreditation Agency or vice-chairman of the Committee of the Expert Group for Chemical Education of the Czech Chemical Society. He is or has been an investigator of MOST projects from Horizon2020, MaSciL from EU FP7 or GEM from EU LC programme, several projects of GAČR, TAČR and other scientific and development projects. He has published in journals focused on science education and applied informatics and is the author of several monographs, e.g. Didactics of Chemistry - Research and Undergraduate Teaching, Towards Virtualization of School Experimental Activities, Psychogenetic Aspects of Didactics of Chemistry, Interaction of Real and Virtual Environment in Early Science Education: Tradition and Challenges and Natural Science Education in the Information Society. ID ORCID 0000-0002-1076-4595
Prof. Dr. Fethiye Erbay is a distinguished academic specializing in art, art management, art policy, museology, museum management, and cultural heritage. She is the only professor in Türkiye to hold dual professorships in her academic areas. A graduate of the University of Leicester’s renowned School of Museum Studies, she is the founder head and faculty member at Istanbul University's Department of Museology. Prof. Erbay has been instrumental in the establishment of university museums, private institutions, and municipal museums across Türkiye. She is the founder and president of key international networks, including the International Balkan Museums Association and the International University Museums Association Platform etc. Her contributions include international art exhibitions, pioneering publications, and advancing innovative art and museum practices globally.
Christopher Punzalan is an associate member of the Department of Science and Technology National Research Council of the Philippines Division 1 and an assistant professor at the National University Philippines. He is pursuing an EdD educational management program at the National University Manila. He also attended a postgraduate summer school at the Education University of Hong Kong, a master’s degree in integrated science at the Philippine Normal University as a DOST thesis scholar, and an undergraduate teacher education program in power plant engineering technology at the Technological University of the Philippines. Christopher is a Licensed Professional Teacher in the Philippines. As a researcher, his works related to science education, STEM, ESD, and green technology were published in various reputable journals. Lastly, he looks for approaches to enhance the integration of environmental education and sustainability in the various curricula.
Ann Rowson Love is Associate Professor and Director of Museum Education & Visitor-Centered Curation in the Department of Art Education at Florida State University. She is the co-editor of three books Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums (2017), Systems Thinking in Museums: Theory and Pracice (2017), and Dimensions of Curation: Considering Competing Values for Intentional Exhibition Practices (2023). She is co-author of An Introductory Guide to Qualitative Research in Art Museums (2024). She publishes and presents internationally.
Bahri Ata was born in İzmit in 1969. He graduated from the Department of History, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, METU, Ankara, Turkey. He worked as a history teacher in İmece Primary School, Kağıthane, İstanbul between 1991 and 1994. Later on He became a lecturer of History of Turkish Republic at Abant İzzet Baysal University, Bolu. In 1997, He completed his Master thesis related to the transfer of Telegraph Techology to the Ottoman Empire under the advisorship of Prof. Dr. Zafer Toprak. In 1998 he completed his second M.A. thesis concerning to History Education at Institute of Social Sciences, Gazi University under the advisorship of Prof. Dr. Mustafa Safran.
He completed his military service as history teacher at Işıklar Military School, Bursa between 2001 and 2002. He took an active role in the renewal of the curriculum of Social Studies and History courses and textbooks at the Board of Education between 2003-2006. He began to work as an assistant professor at Faculty of Education, Gazi University in 2005. He became an associate professor in 2010, Professor in 2017. He is interested in history education, social studies education, Museum education, science and technology history.
His memberships are as follows;
• Specialized Committee Member, UNESCO National Commission of Turkey (2010-2014)
• Museum Consulting Member, Atatürk Köşk Müzesi, Çankaya (2012-2014)
• TÜBİTAK Science Center Supervisory Board Member (2014-2016)
• Member of Board of Education, Ministry of Education, Turkey (2018-2021)
Dr. David Anderson is a Professor in the fields of Visitor Studies, Museum Education and Science Education, and is the Director of the Master of Museum Education (MMEd) degree program at UBC. He has made significant contributions to these fields through initiating, reforming and strengthening collaborations between museums, schools and universities. Through these reforms his work has been instrumental in energizing the remarkable wealth of cultural, historic, and social significance represented in museum institutions. He is a Japan Foundation, Ritsumeikan and Unversitas 21 Research Fellow, and his research contributions span the Globe, but have had particular impact and relevance for the nations of Asia, including China, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Japan. He has worked on the leading edge of the trends in educational reforms in Asia, identifying the needs, working harmoniously within the changes, and bridging disconnected groups in ways that are yielding considerable benefits to education. His work is releasing and revitalizing the extraordinary educational wealth of culture and history held in museums throughout the World.
Born in 1968 at Ceyhan province of Adana. In 1987, entered the Painting-Handiwork Teaching Department at Gazi University and graduated in 1991. Assigned to teacher duty the same year. Gazi University Received Masters degree in 2002 and doctorate degree in 2006. She became an associate professor in 2011 and a professor in 2018. Opened fourteen personal exhibitions ten of which are international. Attended to 300 national and international mixed exhibitions.
33 books, one of which is a double author and the other is an editor and chapter writer; More than 130 scientific articles and papers were published in academic journals and symposium books. His academic publications have received over 1770 citations to date.
In addition, in 2022, 2023 according to the average of the last 5 years, AD Scientific Index was among the top 10,000 in the list, which was prepared based on open profiles in Google Scholar and listed the 800 thousand most cited academics.
He took part in dozens of national and international social responsibility projects. Mercin worked as an executive and as an expert in some of the Projects of UNESCO, UNICEF, EUROPEAN UNION, TUBITAK, BAP and Development Agencies. He was the manager of the founding project of DPÜ TV. He took part in the commissions that updated the Visual Arts Course, Technology and Design Course and Elective Visual Arts Course Curriculum. He also took part in the commission that prepared the books of these programs and served as coordinator. He served in the design centers monitoring committee of the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. He took part as an executive in the official establishment and opening of the Private Ahmet Yakupoğlu Museum in 2023, and in moving the Kütahya Dumlupınar University Museum to its new building and activating it. He served as the chairman of the Visual Arts Education Association for two terms. Mercin, who is married and the father of three children, is currently a lecturer at Kütahya Dumlupınar University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Visual Communication Design Department and has been the Dean of the same Faculty since 2019.
Prof. Dr. Kadriye Tezcan Akmehmet
Kadriye Tezcan Akmehmet Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Sanat Bölümü’nde öğretim üyesidir. Sanat Bölümü Sanat ve Kültür Yönetimi Anabilim Dalı Başkanı ve Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Müzecilik Yüksek Lisans Programı’nın yürütücüsüdür. Lisansını İstanbul Üniversitesi Sanat Tarihi Bölümü’nde, yüksek lisansını Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Müzecilik Yüksek Lisans Programı’nda, doktorasını İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Sanat Tarihi Programı’nda tamamladı. 2010’da kazandığı Fulbright Doktora Sonrası Araştırma Bursu ödülü ile George Washington Üniversitesi Müzecilik Programı’nda Fulbright Türkiye Komisyonu 2010-2011 Misafir Araştırmacı Programı tarafından desteklenen araştırmasını yürüttü. Müze eğitimi ve öğrenme, müze iletişimi, sanat pedagojisi ve proje yönetimi konularında, 2007’den beri dersler vermektedir. Araştırmaları müze eğitimi genelinde, müze-okul işbirliği, müze-toplum işbirliği ve aile katılımı programları ve sanat tarihi öğrenimi üzerinde yoğunlaşmakta; bu konularda makaleleri ve kitap bölümleri bulunmaktadır.
Kadriye Tezcan Akmehmet, is a Professor in the Department of Art, Faculty of Art and Science, Yildiz Technical University. She is head of the Art and Cultural Management Department and the chairperson of the Museum Studies Graduate School of Social Sciences. She received a BA in Art History from Istanbul University, a MA in Museum Studies from Yildiz Technical University, and a Ph.D. in Art History from Istanbul Technical University. She was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and conducted his research at the George Washington University Museum Studies Program, which was supported by the Fulbright Türkiye Commission 2010-2011 Visiting Scholar Program. She has been teaching courses on a range of subjects, including museum studies, museum education and learning, museum communication, art pedagogy and project management since 2007. Her research interests is focused on museum education, in particular related to issues of school partnership, community partnership, parent involvement programs and art history learning. She has published articles and book chapters on these topics.
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