Aims and Scope

Aims of the Journal

AETHERION: International Journal of Society, Education, and Development advances scholarship in education, linguistics, including English and Filipino, and the social sciences. It provides a platform for examining how educational practices, language, social relationships, and institutions shape individual and collective development.

The journal aims to:

• Publish rigorous and original scholarship that advances knowledge within and across its core disciplines.
• Connect research with educational practice, public discourse, institutional improvement, and community needs.
• Promote critical understanding of equity, inclusion, cultural and linguistic diversity, and sustainable development.
• Encourage scholarly exchange across national and cultural contexts, including Philippine and Southeast Asian perspectives.
• Support methodological diversity through quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, theoretical, and evidence-synthesis contributions.

The journal welcomes locally grounded studies that demonstrate a clear contribution to wider scholarly understanding. Submissions need not involve international comparisons, but their significance beyond the immediate research setting should be explained.

Readership

The journal serves researchers, educators, language scholars, social scientists, graduate students, educational leaders, policymakers, development practitioners, and community organizations interested in the relationships among society, education, language, and development.

Topics Covered

Education	No. 01	Curriculum and instruction; teacher education; educational leadership; assessment and evaluation; educational psychology; inclusive education; educational technology; literacy; Indigenous education; higher and adult education; and educational policy.
Linguistics — English and Filipino	No. 02	Applied and theoretical linguistics; language acquisition; English and Filipino language education; sociolinguistics; psycholinguistics; discourse analysis; corpus linguistics; pragmatics; translation; stylistics; multilingualism; and language policy.
Social Sciences	No. 03	Sociology; anthropology; social and cultural psychology; governance; public administration; communication and media; gender; migration; development studies; community development; and the social dimensions of livelihoods and sustainability.
Cross-disciplinary Inquiry	No. 04	Educational equity; language and identity; digital inclusion; technology and social change; community-based education; cultural diversity; institutional development; and education for sustainability.

Single-discipline and interdisciplinary submissions are welcome. All manuscripts must demonstrate a substantive connection to the journal’s focus on society, education, or development. Purely technical studies without such a connection fall outside its scope.

Journal Sections

Articles will appear under the following subject sections in the table of contents:

Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment	Section 1	Teaching approaches, curriculum development, learning processes, and assessment.
Educational Leadership, Policy, and Teacher Development	Section 2	Educational management, governance, policy, teacher preparation, and professional learning.
Language, Linguistics, and Literacy	Section 3	English and Filipino linguistics, language teaching, translation, discourse, and literacy.
Society, Culture, and Communication	Section 4	Social relationships, cultural practices, identity, media, and public communication.
Governance, Equity, and Community Development	Section 5	Public institutions, social inclusion, participation, livelihoods, and community well-being.
Technology, Education, and Social Change	Section 6	Digital learning, artificial intelligence, technology adoption, and their educational and social implications.

Authors should select the most appropriate section during submission. The editorial team may reassign a manuscript according to its principal contribution.

Article Types

Article types are separate from subject sections. The journal accepts original research articles, review articles, theoretical or conceptual articles, methodological articles, and research notes. Editorials and book reviews may also be considered.