Jurnal Paedagogy

About Jurnal Paedagogy

Jurnal Paedagogy — Full Journal Profile

Jurnal Paedagogy is an Indonesian peer-reviewed education journal published by the Faculty of Education and Psychology (Fakultas Ilmu Pendidikan dan Psikologi, FIPP) at Universitas Pendidikan Mandalika (UNDIKMA) in Mataram, Indonesia. Its fuller Indonesian descriptor is Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pendidikan, which can be understood in English as a journal of educational research and development. That descriptor matters for identification: there are many Indonesian education journals with similar names built around the word pedagogy, but this specific record — print ISSN 2355-7761 and online ISSN 2722-4627, DOI prefix 10.33394, and UNDIKMA as publisher — is the journal profiled here. Readers who arrive through a search for a different pedagogy title should check the ISSN pair before citing, submitting, or downloading an article.

The journal has been published since 2014 and has been open access since 2014, according to its Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) record. It appears four times a year, in January, April, July and October, and by 2026 it had reached volume 13. Recent issues are large and topical, covering classroom learning in Indonesian primary and secondary schools, Islamic education, digital learning media, inclusive schooling, assessment, and school leadership. For teachers, teacher-educators, graduate students and education researchers — especially those working in Indonesian contexts — it offers a regular, freely readable outlet where applied classroom research and critical reviews sit side by side. This profile explains what the journal publishes, how its editorial process works, what it costs, how it is indexed and accredited, and what authors should check before submitting.

At a Glance — Verified Identity

The ISSN pair is the safest identity check. The JournalsWorld record for this post lists exactly 2355-7761 and 2722-4627, and DOAJ lists the same pair with the same publisher and country. No conflict was found between the stored JournalsWorld identifiers and the official or DOAJ records for this journal.

Publisher and Institutional Home

Universitas Pendidikan Mandalika, usually shortened to UNDIKMA, is a university in Mataram, on the island of Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, formed from earlier teacher-training institutions in the region. Its Faculty of Education and Psychology is the journal's publishing unit, which places Jurnal Paedagogy inside a faculty whose core business is teacher education, educational psychology and school-based research. That home explains a great deal about the journal's content. Many articles report studies carried out in partner schools, in teacher professional development settings, or in university classrooms where future teachers are trained. The work is often close to practice: a learning medium is developed, tried in a real class, revised, and then evaluated for feasibility and effect.

Indonesia has a very large national journal ecosystem, with thousands of university journals published through Open Journal Systems (OJS) installations. Within that ecosystem, a faculty journal earns trust in visible ways: a stable ISSN record, a DOI for every article, a regular schedule, a national accreditation grade, and inclusion in DOAJ. Jurnal Paedagogy displays each of those signals on its home page. Its current-issue announcements, archive of past volumes, and editorial information are all presented on the UNDIKMA e-journal platform, and articles carry DOIs in the 10.33394/jp pattern, which readers can resolve through Crossref.

History and Development

The journal began in 2014. Its early identity was anchored in the print ISSN 2355-7761, and the online ISSN 2722-4627 later became the identifier emphasised on the current journal home page. DOAJ records 2014 as the year open-access publishing began, which means the journal has made its content freely readable for essentially its whole life — a pattern common for Indonesian university journals, where openly readable PDFs support teachers and students who may not have subscription access through a large library system.

Volume numbering is consistent with an unbroken run: volume 9 appeared in 2022, volume 12 in 2025, and volume 13 in 2026, with four numbered issues in each volume following the January, April, July and October rhythm. The July 2026 issue, volume 13 number 3, illustrates the scale the journal now works at. The Crossref feed sampled on the JournalsWorld page for that issue lists studies on computational thinking in Islamic education, flipbook-based reading media for elementary pupils, playful learning design in junior high school informatics, augmented-reality books for elementary science, differentiated instruction, early-childhood motor development through play materials, school financial management, and blended learning in health-professions education. A single issue therefore spans early childhood through higher and professional education, while staying inside the journal's stated education, teaching and learning remit.

National accreditation is an important chapter in the journal's recent history. The journal home page states SINTA 3 accreditation under a 2025 decree of the Indonesian higher-education research authorities. SINTA — the Science and Technology Index run by the Indonesian ministry — grades national journals from SINTA 1, the highest national grade, through SINTA 6. A SINTA 3 grade signals that the journal has passed national review of its management, editorial process and article quality, and it matters materially to Indonesian authors, for whom publications in accredited journals count in academic promotion and institutional performance systems. Authors should still confirm the current accreditation period on SINTA itself, because grades are awarded for set periods and can change at reaccreditation.

Aims, Scope and What the Journal Actually Publishes

On its home page the publisher describes the journal, in summary, as a scientific journal carrying research articles and critical reviews in education, teaching and learning. DOAJ's keyword record sharpens that picture with the terms education, teaching, learning, curriculum, education research and multimedia learning. In practice, the published content clusters into several recognisable strands.

Learning media and educational technology. This is one of the journal's most visible strands. Authors develop a medium — a flipbook, an interactive e-book, an augmented-reality book, a website-assisted discovery-learning sequence, a locally themed digital resource — and then report expert validation, classroom trials, and measured effects on interest, motivation or achievement. Readers should expect the research-and-development design that is widespread in Indonesian education research: a development model is named, the product is validated by subject and media specialists, practicality is tested with teachers and learners, and effectiveness is examined, often with pre-test and post-test comparisons.

Curriculum, pedagogy and classroom practice. Studies examine problem-based learning, culturally responsive teaching, differentiated learning, discovery learning and project-based learning across subjects including mathematics, science, physics, civics, language and informatics. Work on assessment belongs here too, including teacher perceptions of classroom assessment and the cognitive load or outcome effects of a particular learning design.

Islamic and values-based education. Reflecting its Indonesian setting and UNDIKMA's community, the journal regularly carries work on Islamic educational philosophy, internalisation of values in Islamic elementary schools, and technology use in religious learning, including retrieval of Qur'anic verses for educational purposes. This strand sits alongside, rather than separate from, the general pedagogy content.

Early childhood, primary and inclusive education. Articles address fine-motor development in young children, healthy-living and nutrition programmes in early-childhood settings, naturalistic intelligence in early learning, reading interest in elementary school, and communication between teachers and parents of children with special needs in inclusive elementary schools. Communication barriers, digital readiness of schools, and stakeholder perspectives are recurring concerns in this part of the journal.

Teacher education, leadership and education management. A further strand covers differentiated instruction from the instructor's point of view, school leadership shaped by local cultural philosophy such as the Balinese Tri Hita Karana concept, digital transformation of school financial management, and systematic reviews of blended learning in health-professions education. Literature reviews and thematic analyses appear alongside empirical classroom studies, so the journal is not limited to experimental work.

What the journal does not appear to publish is equally useful for authors to know. It is not a journal of pure linguistics, pure psychology, or subject-matter science without an educational question. A manuscript whose centre is, for example, a chemistry result, a clinical finding or a literary text, with no teaching, learning, curriculum or education-development dimension, would sit outside the pattern of its published issues and would be at risk at initial editorial screening.

Editorial Process, Peer Review and Ethics

DOAJ records the review model as double anonymous peer review, meaning authors and reviewers are not identified to each other during review. The journal's author guidance warns, in direct terms, that manuscripts which do not follow the journal's writing guidelines or format will be rejected before further review, and only manuscripts that meet the format will be processed further. Prospective authors should take that warning literally: use the journal's template and checklist, prepare the abstract and keywords as instructed, and submit through the OJS site rather than by email alone.

DOAJ gives an average expectation of about 10 weeks from submission to publication. That is a directory figure, not a promise for an individual manuscript, and it will vary with reviewer availability, revision rounds and issue scheduling across the four annual issues. Authors who need a dated acceptance for a graduation, promotion or reporting deadline should build in extra time and should not treat the directory average as a guarantee.

The journal publishes a publication ethics statement modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidance for journal editors. Its ethics pages set out expectations for authors, editors, reviewers and the publisher, covering originality, proper attribution, responsible review, and the handling of misconduct. Authors submitting here should expect the normal obligations that follow from that framework: the work must be original and not under consideration elsewhere, contributions of others must be credited, data must be reported honestly, and any conflict of interest should be disclosed to the editor.

Open Access, Licensing, Copyright and Fees

Jurnal Paedagogy is free to read. DOAJ records open-access publishing since 2014, a CC BY-SA licence, and retention of unrestricted copyright and publishing rights by the author. In plain terms, readers may share and adapt published articles under the ShareAlike conditions — attribution to the original authors and journal, and any adaptation shared under the same licence terms — and authors are not required to transfer their copyright away as a condition described in the DOAJ record.

On cost, DOAJ records publication charges of up to 50 USD and records that there is no waiver policy. Two cautions follow. First, directory fee records can lag behind a journal's current price list, and Indonesian journals sometimes state fees in rupiah on their own sites; the amount to rely on is the one stated on the official journal site or in an official acceptance communication at the time of submission. Second, a recorded absence of a waiver policy means authors who would need a waiver should ask the editorial office directly before submitting, rather than assuming a waiver will be granted later. Never pay a fee to a personal account or to an intermediary who contacts you outside the journal's official channels; legitimate charges are handled through the journal and its university.

Indexing, Accreditation and Metrics — an Honest Account

The journal home page lists indexing in SINTA, DOAJ, Google Scholar and Garuda, and its indexing display also shows Dimensions and Index Copernicus. Each service does something different. DOAJ inclusion means the journal has met DOAJ's open-access and transparency criteria at the time of review. Garuda (Garba Rujukan Digital) is the Indonesian national reference portal, so inclusion there supports discovery inside Indonesia's research system. Google Scholar inclusion makes articles findable through the search route most teachers and students actually use. SINTA 3 is a national accreditation grade, as explained above, not an international citation index.

No Journal Impact Factor from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports, and no CiteScore or SCImago quartile, could be verified from official sources consulted for this profile, and none is claimed here. That absence does not make the journal illegitimate — most Indonesian faculty education journals sit outside those commercial indexes — but authors whose institutions specifically require a Web of Science or Scopus publication should check whether this journal meets their institution's rule before submitting, rather than discovering a mismatch after publication. Citation counts visible in Google Scholar for individual articles are article-level information, not a journal-level impact metric, and should be read that way.

Who Reads and Publishes in Jurnal Paedagogy

The author base visible in recent issues is mainly Indonesian: lecturers in teacher-training faculties, graduate students completing research-based degrees, and school-based researchers working with university partners. Affiliations span the archipelago, from Lombok and Bali to Java, Sumatra and Kalimantan, and topics frequently use Indonesian classrooms, Indonesian curriculum structures and Indonesian local culture as their research setting — for example gamelan-based learning, Javanese descriptive texts, and Balinese leadership philosophy applied to elementary schooling. At the same time, manuscripts are accepted in English as well as Indonesian, and English-language articles make the work readable to education researchers elsewhere in Southeast Asia and beyond who study similar questions about learning media, inclusion and teacher development.

For readers outside Indonesia, the journal is most useful as a source of grounded, classroom-level evidence: what happened when a specific medium or model was tried with a specific group of learners, in a real school, with named constraints. It rewards readers who value development studies and practical evaluation over large-scale theory testing, and who want to see how global pedagogical ideas are adapted to local languages, cultures and resources.

Guidance for Authors Considering Submission

Start with fit. Frame the manuscript around an education, teaching, learning, curriculum or multimedia-learning question, and make that framing explicit in the title, abstract and introduction. If the study develops a product, describe the development stages, the validators and their criteria, the trial participants, and the instruments used to judge practicality and effectiveness, so reviewers can follow the logic that Indonesian education journals expect for research-and-development work.

Follow the journal's format exactly, because the journal states that non-compliant manuscripts are rejected before review. Submit through the official OJS journal home, keep the correspondence address and article files consistent, and retain the submission acknowledgement. Declare funding and any conflict of interest, obtain the permissions your institution requires for research involving children or school pupils, and describe consent and safeguarding arrangements where the study involves minors — a point reviewers in early-childhood and primary-education research are entitled to probe.

Before submitting, verify three things on the live journal site on the day you submit: the current fee and payment route, the current template and author guidelines, and the current accreditation statement. Directory records, including this profile, are a starting point for due diligence, not a substitute for the journal's own current pages.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Jurnal Paedagogy the same as every other Indonesian journal with pedagogy in its name? No. Several Indonesian journals use pedagogy-related titles. This journal is the UNDIKMA journal with print ISSN 2355-7761, online ISSN 2722-4627 and DOI prefix 10.33394. Check those identifiers before citing or submitting.

Is it open access? Yes. It is free to read, has published in open access since 2014 according to DOAJ, and uses a CC BY-SA licence with author-retained copyright as recorded in DOAJ.

Does it charge authors? DOAJ records charges of up to 50 USD and no waiver policy. Confirm the current charge on the official site before submitting.

How often does it appear? Four times a year — January, April, July and October.

What languages can I submit in? English and Indonesian are recorded in DOAJ as manuscript languages.

Is it nationally accredited? The journal site states SINTA 3 accreditation under a 2025 ministerial decree. Verify the current period in SINTA when you need the grade for a formal claim.

Verification Notes and Sources

This profile was built from the journal's official UNDIKMA home page, its DOAJ record, and the JournalsWorld record itself, whose ISSN listing matches the official and DOAJ records. Facts that could not be verified from those sources — including any international impact metric — have been left out rather than estimated. Fee, timing and accreditation figures are directory or publisher statements as labelled in the text, and they can change; the journal's live site is the controlling source at the time of any submission or citation decision.