MSSTA Spring 2025 Journal Call!
You are invited to submit to the Spring 2025 Issue of the Manitoba Social Science Teachers’ Association (MSSTA) Journal!
The climate crisis both compels a pedagogical response, and raises many pedagogical questions.
The 2024 MTS PD Day theme, “Environmental Changemakers: From Awareness to Action” was chosen in order to prioritize informed discourse about the climate crisis and to encourage action-oriented pedagogy. The conference theme was built around the idea that educators must go beyond teaching about the climate crisis. Instead, our teaching must provide opportunities for students to witness and enact real change, especially if we are to curb growing anxieties.
In order to extend the opportunity for social science teachers in Manitoba to engage further with this year’s PD theme, MB Speaks has decided to dedicate the Spring 2025 issue of the journal to this theme. We feel that it is crucial to dedicate time to this topic as educators are encountering growing levels of eco-anxiety and eco-apathy. For this issue, we are asking social science educators: What are ways you address student anxiety and apathy around climate change? How do you create meaningful learning opportunities that re-engage students? What different, deeper, and/or solution-based lenses do you use to examine climate change in your classroom? How do you create opportunities for your students to witness and/or enact real change?
Interested authors can submit to any section of the journal:
The journal team will evaluate your submission on the following criteria:
Submissions should be sent to [email protected] no later than February 1st, 2025. We hope to publish this issue in March or April, 2025. Please send your submissions as word documents.
For immediate response to any journal inquiries, please reach out to [email protected]
If you are interested in advertising in our journal, please contact us directly; we are in the process of developing protocols and policies around advertising.
You are invited to submit to the Spring 2025 Issue of the Manitoba Social Science Teachers’ Association (MSSTA) Journal!
The climate crisis both compels a pedagogical response, and raises many pedagogical questions.
The 2024 MTS PD Day theme, “Environmental Changemakers: From Awareness to Action” was chosen in order to prioritize informed discourse about the climate crisis and to encourage action-oriented pedagogy. The conference theme was built around the idea that educators must go beyond teaching about the climate crisis. Instead, our teaching must provide opportunities for students to witness and enact real change, especially if we are to curb growing anxieties.
In order to extend the opportunity for social science teachers in Manitoba to engage further with this year’s PD theme, MB Speaks has decided to dedicate the Spring 2025 issue of the journal to this theme. We feel that it is crucial to dedicate time to this topic as educators are encountering growing levels of eco-anxiety and eco-apathy. For this issue, we are asking social science educators: What are ways you address student anxiety and apathy around climate change? How do you create meaningful learning opportunities that re-engage students? What different, deeper, and/or solution-based lenses do you use to examine climate change in your classroom? How do you create opportunities for your students to witness and/or enact real change?
Interested authors can submit to any section of the journal:
- Pedagogy: scholarly writing connected to the issue theme. Writers should aim for 5-7 double-spaced pages.
- Practice: class activities, lessons and/or unit plans.
- Professional Development: events, organizations, learning resources, books, podcasts, or book/podcast/resource reviews.
- Photos: If you have any photographs of Manitoba that you would like featured in the issue, we would love to include them.
The journal team will evaluate your submission on the following criteria:
- Relevance to the journal call (as outlined above)
- Suitability for our target audience: Social studies teachers in Manitoba
- Written structure: Writing is of publishable quality
Submissions should be sent to [email protected] no later than February 1st, 2025. We hope to publish this issue in March or April, 2025. Please send your submissions as word documents.
For immediate response to any journal inquiries, please reach out to [email protected]
If you are interested in advertising in our journal, please contact us directly; we are in the process of developing protocols and policies around advertising.
MB Speaks is the official journal of the Manitoba Social Sciences Teachers’ Association. It is published twice a year, in the spring and fall. Each issue centres around a particular theme and educators are encouraged to submit contributions that are connected to any of the following areas:
Pedagogy: scholarly writing connected to the issue theme. Writers should aim for 5-7 double-spaced pages.
Practice: class activities, lessons and/or unit plans.
Professional Development: events, organizations, learning resources, books, podcasts, or book/podcast/resource reviews.
Photos: If you have any photographs of Manitoba that you would like featured in the issue, we would love to include them.
If you have any questions about MB Speaks, please direct them to our Managing Editor, Dr. Shannon D.M. Moore at [email protected]
Pedagogy: scholarly writing connected to the issue theme. Writers should aim for 5-7 double-spaced pages.
Practice: class activities, lessons and/or unit plans.
Professional Development: events, organizations, learning resources, books, podcasts, or book/podcast/resource reviews.
Photos: If you have any photographs of Manitoba that you would like featured in the issue, we would love to include them.
If you have any questions about MB Speaks, please direct them to our Managing Editor, Dr. Shannon D.M. Moore at [email protected]
