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Editorial
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Personal
Construct Theory & Practice is now entering its fifth year. We feel proud that the e-journal has
been accepted by the PCP community and feel encouraged to widen its scope by
including more articles of a different kind. Subscribers live in more than 30
countries from five continents as identified by their email address domains,
probably even more as many have unspecific addresses such as “gmx.com”. Obviously,
many of them are not affiliated to the three regional organisations in North
America, Europe and Australasia.
In addition
to the regional organisations, trans-national theme-focussed groups are being
formed, dealing with the applicability of PCT to fields such as the arts,
politics, philosophy, or education. This journal will support this development
by opening its pages to special sections of papers edited by guest editors from
these fields. This seems of special importance now that publishing houses
increasingly appear reluctant to publish “collected papers” or edited books – understandably
so as cheap photocopying makes the publication of specialised books less and
less economically viable. Therefore, electronic journals will play an increased
role in publishing scholarly and educational works. One special section
currently in preparation will comprise selected papers from the 2007
International Congress on PCP in Brisbane, Australia. Others will be devoted to
PCP and the Arts, PCP and Education and PCP and Philosophy.
In the future, submitted manuscripts to be peer-reviewed will still constitute a
substantial part of the articles but in addition we shall present articles
together with invited comments to facilitate the discussion of important
issues. In a similar way, “target” articles will invite comments from readers.
We should especially like to invite practitioners to share their expertise with
our readers. We think that it is important to reflect and discuss the
application of Personal Construct Theory because in our view it is one of the
strengths of theory that it has an immense value beyond the academic discourse
prevailing in “postmodern” social sciences.
We would
like to thank the reviewers who have contributed to maintaining the quality of
the journal.
The
articles published prior to 2007 are now accessible without password.
Generally, articles will be accessible without password one year after
publication. The password for 2008 will be sent out to subscribers. Free
subscriptions are available from the first editor.
Finally, we
would like to point to other sources of information on PCP, accessible through
the Gateway at http://www.personal-construct.net
and especially the “NewsBlog” at http://www.pcp-net.de/info/news.html.
Jörn
Scheer (Hamburg, Germany)
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Trevor Butt (Huddersfield,
UK)
January, 2008
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