Focus and Scope

JPUS: Jurnal Pendidikan Untuk Semua is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to advancing educational research, innovation, and practices that contribute to educational quality, accessibility, inclusivity, and lifelong learning. The journal places particular emphasis on nonformal education, educational innovation, and education for all, while embracing interdisciplinary perspectives across formal, nonformal, and informal educational settings.

JPUS provides an academic platform for researchers, educators, practitioners, and policymakers to disseminate original research, theoretical and conceptual studies, and evidence-based educational innovations. The journal welcomes scholarly contributions addressing teaching and learning, educational development, technology integration, community empowerment, and educational policies across diverse educational levels and contexts.

The journal aims to bridge educational theory and practice by promoting innovative, inclusive, and sustainable approaches to education that respond to the evolving needs of individuals, institutions, and communities.

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

1. Nonformal and Community Education: Nonformal education, community-based learning, community learning centers, equivalency education,  community education programs, and the planning, implementation, management, and evaluation of nonformal educational initiatives.

2. Teaching, Learning, and Educational Innovation: Innovative teaching and learning approaches, instructional strategies, pedagogical models, classroom practices, active and collaborative learning, differentiated instruction, learning motivation, learner engagement, and educational innovations across formal, nonformal, and informal educational settings.

3. Educational Technology and Digital Learning: Educational technology, instructional media development, digital learning environments, e-learning, blended learning, mobile learning, artificial intelligence in education, gamification, immersive technologies, multimedia learning, and technology-enhanced teaching, learning, and assessment.

4. Curriculum, Assessment, and Educational Development: Curriculum design, development, implementation, and evaluation; educational assessment; learning outcomes; instructional design; educational program development; competency-based education; and the evaluation of educational practices and interventions.

5. Lifelong Learning and Adult Education: Lifelong learning, lifelong education, adult learning, andragogy, continuing education, professional learning, vocational education, workforce development, competency development, entrepreneurship education, reskilling, and upskilling.

6. Inclusive Education and Educational Equity: Inclusive education, special needs education, disability and accessibility, gender equality in education, educational participation, equitable learning opportunities, education for marginalized and underserved populations, and strategies to reduce educational disparities.

7. Family, Parenting, and Early Childhood Education: Family education, parenting programs, parental involvement, home-school partnerships, early childhood education, child development, family literacy, character education, and educational practices supporting children's holistic development.

8. Literacy, Life Skills, and Learner Development: Language and literacy education, scientific literacy, digital literacy, financial literacy, environmental literacy, life skills education, twenty-first-century competencies, critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration, learner identity, motivation, self-efficacy, and personal development.

9. Educational Management, Leadership, and Policy: Educational management, institutional governance, educational leadership, quality assurance, school and community education management, educational accountability, policy analysis, educational reform, institutional development, and educational program evaluation.

10. Community Empowerment, Sustainability, and Interdisciplinary Education: Community empowerment, social participation, sustainable development education, cultural and local wisdom-based education, citizenship education, social transformation, and interdisciplinary educational research integrating perspectives from psychology, sociology, technology, culture, communication, economics, health, and related fields.

JPUS welcomes original research articles, conceptual and theoretical studies, systematic literature reviews, and research-based educational development studies employing quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, research and development, action research, evaluation research, and other recognized scholarly approaches.

JPUS welcomes research conducted in formal, nonformal, and informal educational settings, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, vocational education, higher education, adult education, community-based education, and lifelong learning environments.

Manuscripts should demonstrate clear relevance to at least one of the journal's stated areas of focus and contribute meaningful theoretical, methodological, empirical, or practical insights to educational research and practice.

All submissions are subject to editorial screening and peer review based on their relevance to the journal's focus and scope, originality, methodological rigor, scholarly contribution, and ethical standards.