Reflections from a Summer of Relaxation
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Reflections from a Summer of Relaxation Douglas McDougall
Accepted: 2 September 2020 # Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) 2020
As I write this editorial on the back deck of my house, I reflect on the six months that COVID-19 has affected our social and educational life. There are currently many discussions about how to safely open our schools and universities so that we can continue to learn as a community. Hopefully, you also have more time to read what we have learned about science, mathematics, and technology education and that the articles in this issue will further your understanding of teaching and learning in these fields. You may have noticed that there has been a major expansion in the number of articles published in CJSMTE. Our goal is to bring you approximately 12 articles per issue. We have expanded the range of topics and the types of manuscripts in our journal. For example, in this issue, you will find commentaries by our two mathematics education editors. In the first commentary, Professor Egan Chernoff, University of Saskatchewan, our mathematics editor for English-language manuscripts, describes his journey in becoming an editor in the journal (Chernoff, 2020). He begins with a camping trip experience and enlightens the reader with his journey as an editor with numerous connections to CJSMTE and to the field of mathematics education. Egan takes us on a humorous and insightful excursion as he develops into an editor through a change in publishers and editors-in-chief. I am very happy that he is still with us! Caroline Lajoie, the mathematics editor for French-language manuscripts, writes a second commentary about the experiences of being a mathematics editor. In this French-language article, she provides the reader with some thoughts about the journal and what she has been doing to give back to the academic community through her work as an editor (Lajoie, 2020). She reviewed the first 20 years of mathematics articles to get a sense of the role of diversity in CJSMTE. She discovered four different forms: the language of publication, their geographical origin, their scientific field of reference, and the current theory(ies) from which they come. She presents several themes and their corresponding authors in her commentary. Reflecting on these two commentaries, I thought about my own journey in becoming the Editor-in-Chief of this journal. In the Fall of 2018, then Editor-in-Chief John Wallace had announced his retirement from the journal. There was a posting at the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning (my home department) inviting applications to fulfill the role of CJSMTE’s Editor-in-Chief (EIC). I was six months from the end of my time as Associate Dean, Programs, and I wanted to make a contribution to the Centre for Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, where I was once Director before my long leadership
D. McDougall (*) Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6, Canada e-mail:
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