Information about Kieli, koulutus ja yhteiskunta

Kieli, koulutus ja yhteiskunta (Language, Education and Society) is an open online journal edited by the Finnish Network for Language Education Policies. We publish articles and comments on subjects within the language education field. A central goal of the journal is to generate discussion and increase awareness about current issues in language education, and to bring together researchers, language policy decision-makers, teachers and others working in the field.

The journal is a low-threshold publishing platform to which we invite texts written in a popularized style on good practices and experiences from projects, research results and the latest decisions in language education politics as well as their backgrounds. We also welcome polemical comments on language education in Finland or elsewhere.

The journal is classified as D1 (trade journal) by Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture. 

The journal uses Creative Common license CC BY NC. Read more on the license.

Kieli, koulutus ja yhteiskunta comes out at least five times a year. The journal’s target group are various actors in the wide field of language education. The journal can be read free of charge at https://www.kieliverkosto.fi/fi/journals

Both open issues and theme issues are published in the journal. If you have a good idea for a theme issue, please contact us! Theme issues are often agreed upon long before they come out, and the editor-in-chief for each theme issue recruits the writers. Therefore, we mainly invite article suggestions for the open issues.

If you have an idea for an article, we invite you to contact Kieliverkosto. The idea can be a preliminary one. Please submit your article proposal well ahead of the issue in which you would like your article to be published as the issue in which you would like to publish may already be full. We hope to hear from you soon and discuss your article proposal! The editorial team decides which texts will be published.

Year 2025 publication schedule

Both open issues and theme issues are published in the journal as follows:

• February, open issue
• March, theme issue
• May, open issue
• June, theme issue
• September, open issue
• October, theme issue
• November, theme issue
• December, open issue

Year 2026 publication schedule

Both open issues and theme issues are published in the journal as follows:

• February, open issue
• March, theme issue
• May, open issue
• September, open issue
• October, theme issue
• December, open or theme issue