Focus and Scope

JPUS: Jurnal Pendidikan Untuk Semua is a multidisciplinary scientific journal focusing on nonformal education, lifelong learning, and education for all. The journal publishes empirical research, conceptual studies, and innovative practices that contribute to the development of educational theory, practice, policy, and innovation, particularly in diverse, community-based, and lifelong learning contexts.

JPUS provides an academic platform for researchers, academics, practitioners, and policymakers to disseminate scholarly work addressing educational quality, accessibility, equity, inclusion, participation, empowerment, and sustainability. The journal particularly encourages studies that examine how education can expand learning opportunities and support individuals, families, communities, and society across different stages of life.

Nonformal education, community education, and lifelong learning constitute the primary scholarly orientation of JPUS. The journal also welcomes interdisciplinary and cross-contextual studies when they demonstrate a clear and substantive connection to nonformal education, lifelong learning, education for all, community development, educational inclusion, or equitable access to learning opportunities.

The scope of JPUS: Jurnal Pendidikan Untuk Semua includes, but is not limited to:

• Nonformal and Community Education: nonformal education programs, community-based education, community learning centers, program management, implementation, development, and evaluation.

• Lifelong Learning and Education for All: lifelong learning, lifelong education, learning society, educational access, participation, equity, democratization of education, and learning opportunities across the life course.

• Adult and Continuing Education: adult learning, andragogy, continuing education, older adult education, community-based learning, and learning in later life.

• Community Empowerment and Development: community empowerment, capacity building, social participation, community development, social transformation, and education for community resilience.

• Family and Parenting Education: family education, parenting education, parental involvement, family literacy, and educational dimensions of child and family development.

• Training and Human Resource Development: vocational learning, competency development, workplace learning, entrepreneurship education, reskilling, upskilling, and professional development.

• Literacy and Life Skills Education: basic, digital, financial, health, environmental, and media literacy; life skills; and twenty-first-century competencies.

• Educational Technology and Learning Innovation: digital learning, artificial intelligence, mobile learning, blended learning, immersive learning, instructional media, and digital platforms, particularly in nonformal, community, and lifelong learning contexts.

• Inclusive Education and Educational Equity: inclusive and accessible education, education for marginalized and underserved groups, disability and special needs education, gender equity, and equitable access to learning opportunities.

• Curriculum, Learning, and Learner Development: curriculum, learning strategies, assessment, evaluation, motivation, self-efficacy, learner engagement, guidance, and learner development, particularly when examined within nonformal, community, or lifelong learning contexts.

• Educational Management, Leadership, and Policy: educational management, leadership, governance, quality assurance, educational policy, institutional development, and program evaluation, particularly in nonformal and community-based education.

• Education for Sustainable Development and Social Transformation: sustainability education, environmental education, citizenship education, social innovation, social change, and education's contribution to sustainable communities.

• Interdisciplinary Studies in Education: interdisciplinary research integrating education with technology, psychology, sociology, health, culture, communication, economics, and related fields, provided that the study demonstrates a clear contribution to the journal's primary focus.

JPUS welcomes manuscripts employing quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, research and development, evaluation research, action research, case study, systematic review, literature review, and conceptual approaches, provided that the research question, theoretical contribution, or practical implications are relevant to the journal's focus and scope.

Manuscripts originating from other educational disciplines may be considered when they demonstrate a clear, substantive, and explicit contribution to nonformal education, lifelong learning, education for all, community empowerment, inclusive education, equitable learning opportunities, educational innovation, or the improvement of educational quality. Manuscripts that address education solely within a formal schooling or disciplinary context, without a meaningful connection to the journal's primary focus, may be considered outside the scope of JPUS.