MSSTA Fall 2025 Journal Call!
You are invited to submit to the Fall 2025 Issue of the Manitoba Social Science Teachers’ Association (MSSTA) Journal:
You are invited to submit to the Fall 2025 Issue of the Manitoba Social Science Teachers’ Association (MSSTA) Journal:
Democracy Depends on It: Social Sciences Education
"In the end, the question is whether social studies education will promote citizenship that is adaptive to the status quo and interests of the socially powerful or whether it will promote a transformative citizenship that aims to reconstruct society in more equitable and socially just ways. Social studies teachers are positioned to provide the answer."
--Ross, 2024
"In the end, the question is whether social studies education will promote citizenship that is adaptive to the status quo and interests of the socially powerful or whether it will promote a transformative citizenship that aims to reconstruct society in more equitable and socially just ways. Social studies teachers are positioned to provide the answer."
--Ross, 2024
The fall 2025 professional development day and journal are both dedicated to the theme of citizenship and democracy. In the current context, due to political, economic, environmental, technological, and social changes, notions of citizenship and democracy have been challenged and changed. These factors are impacting our understanding of citizenship, in particular our ideas of what it means to be a “good” citizen as we face these challenges. At this moment, we are also witnessing attacks on citizenship and democracy. It is for these reasons that we have dedicated this issue to the exploration of citizenship and democracy in social studies education.
As citizenship education is a core concept in the provincial social studies curriculum, we want to hear how teachers are exploring this concept in their classrooms. That is, we want to hear how social studies educators are challenging attacks on citizenship and democracy, inviting complex discussions about these concepts, and enacting democratic practices in their own classrooms. We recognize that many teachers may be grappling with the weight of the current context, and we hope this issue also offers space for educators to share their uncertainties and insecurities about how to pedagogically respond.
Submissions can engage the following themes:
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 July 15th, 2025. We hope to publish this issue in time for the October PD in 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.
As citizenship education is a core concept in the provincial social studies curriculum, we want to hear how teachers are exploring this concept in their classrooms. That is, we want to hear how social studies educators are challenging attacks on citizenship and democracy, inviting complex discussions about these concepts, and enacting democratic practices in their own classrooms. We recognize that many teachers may be grappling with the weight of the current context, and we hope this issue also offers space for educators to share their uncertainties and insecurities about how to pedagogically respond.
Submissions can engage the following themes:
- explorations of citizenship education in social studies.
- changing ideas of citizenship/good citizenship
- attacks or threats to citizenship and democracy in the current context and their implications for social studies education
- dialogue and deliberation as essential to explorations of citizenship and democracy education
- classrooms practices that model, encourage, and enact active citizenship
- the emotional toll of teaching about citizenship and democracy while experiencing attacks on both
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 July 15th, 2025. We hope to publish this issue in time for the October PD in 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]
