A journal of field practice.
The Journal of International Experiential Education and Learning — a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of field-based scholarship from CIEEL fellows and the wider experiential education community. First published 2014–2017. Returning in late 2026 as a New Series, with Vol. 1, No. 1 carrying the foundational KARCA Spiral methodology article.
JiEEL was founded in 2014 as the editorial vehicle for CIEEL's first generation of fellows and the practitioner-scholarship that emerged from their fieldwork. The original series ran from 2014 to 2017, with several issues hosted at journal.cieel.org; publication paused during CIEEL's institutional consolidation period and the pandemic that followed. The journal now returns as a New Series, in Q3–Q4 2026, alongside the September 2026 founding cohort.
The New Series positions JiEEL as the canonical venue for KARCA Spiral methodology — both the foundational methodology articulation and the applied case-study scholarship of CIEEL practitioners — while remaining open to peer submissions from the wider field of experiential education.
The journal operates on a double-blind peer-review process under the editorial stewardship of the KARCA Centre of Innovation. Open access; no submission fees; no publication fees. One issue per year, with a rolling submission window for shorter notes and field essays. The original 2014–2017 issues are being reconstructed for archival listing on this page; see Section D below for status.
New Series, Vol. 1, No. 1.
The Relaunch Issue: Methodology, Place, and the First Cohort
Forthcoming. Editorial review in progress; full table of contents finalises in late 2026.
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The KARCA Spiral: A Five-Stage Methodology for Field-Based Experiential Education from Himalayan Practice
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From Naddi to Hamirpur: Thirty-three IDMPs and the Question of Pedagogy in Disaster Preparedness
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The Editorial Pause: A Note on Institutional Time
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Additional articles in editorial review
Three categories. Field-rooted, all of them.
Methodology articles (4,000–8,000 words). Conceptual or empirical articles advancing the methodology of field-based experiential education. KARCA-Spiral-aligned submissions are particularly welcome but not required; the journal is open to alternative methodological frameworks engaged seriously with the experiential education tradition.
Field essays (2,000–5,000 words). First-person scholarship rooted in specific field engagements. The form welcomed by Dewey and shaped by the practitioner-scholarship tradition. Empirical observation, theoretical engagement, and personal voice integrated rather than separated.
Practitioner notes (800–2,000 words). Shorter contributions from current or former CIEEL fellows, partner-institution faculty, and aligned practitioners. Field reports, methodological observations, programme reflections.
All submissions undergo double-blind peer review. Articles are published under a Creative Commons attribution licence. Submissions and queries: editorial@cieel.org.
Stewards of the journal.
The full editorial board of the JiEEL New Series is being constituted ahead of the relaunch issue. The board comprises CIEEL faculty, KARCA Centre stewards, and external reviewers from the experiential education and international development education communities. Confirmed editorial roles will be announced in the front matter of New Series Vol. 1, No. 1.
Expressions of interest from prospective reviewers — particularly scholars working at the intersection of experiential education, community-based research, and South Asian field practice — are welcomed at editorial@cieel.org.
The original series, 2014–2017.
JiEEL's original series ran from 2014 through 2017 at journal.cieel.org, carrying field essays and methodological notes from CIEEL's first generation of fellows. The original site is no longer maintained, but partial archives remain accessible via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Reconstructing the full original series — issue-by-issue tables of contents, original PDFs where retrievable, citation metadata — is a project being undertaken alongside the New Series launch. The archive will appear here as it is reconstructed; expect partial completeness through 2026 and a full archival listing by mid-2027.
If you authored, reviewed, or hold copies of any original-series article and would like to assist the archival reconstruction, please write to editorial@cieel.org. Original-series authors are also invited to consider re-publication or extended reflections in the New Series.