The purpose of the International Journal of Research in Education is to improve the practice and theory of qualitative research in education, with education defined in the extensive senses, including non-school settings. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical research focused on critical issues of science, mathematics, and technology information education, early childhood education, economic education, language education, social education, and other issues in the teacher preparation program. Research could implement a variety of qualitative methods and approaches, such as educational critique, curriculum criticism, policy studies, ethnography, grounded theory, case study, narrative, life history, phenomenology, and others. Moreover, innovative or provocative approaches to qualitative and quantitative research as well as the way research are reported are encouraged. We also accept theoretical papers, including discussions of ontology, epistemology, methodology, or ethics from a broad range of perspectives.