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Re-Imagining Approaches to Learning and Teaching: Youth and Community Work Education Post COVID-19

Educ. Sci. 2022, 12(3), 201; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12030201
by Sheila Curran 1,*, Sinead Gormally 2,* and Christine Smith 3,*
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Reviewer 3: Anonymous
Educ. Sci. 2022, 12(3), 201; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12030201
Submission received: 23 December 2021 / Revised: 2 March 2022 / Accepted: 4 March 2022 / Published: 11 March 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educating Informal Educators)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Although the approach and methodology studied is of interest in the field of Higher Education, I find that the review of the literature to support the study is very limited. The review should be increased considerably to better support the study.
On the other hand, it is a partial study on a specific institution, so there is a bias on the culture and ways of acting of this institution, being in this case difficult to extrapolate results towards a generalization of Higher Education. It would be convenient to extend this same study to other institutions and countries or regions to give greater consistency to the research results.
Regarding the results, the total population under study is not found, only those who finally answered, so that it is not possible to know the significance of the study, even if it is only for the institution studied.

Author Response

Please find as an attachment response to reviewer one

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear authors

The article now is very informative and interesting. The description of the PAR method used enables the reader to understand the dynamics in the described research discussions.

Regarding the description of PAR, I suggest re-arranging the paragraphs (line 205-213 further up, since they are more general and the description of the PAR approach in the CYW is more concrete).    

I do see the need of only some minor revision e.g.:

line 305 - I guess, in the original text it was mentioned "the past year" now it is "the past few years", but the research was done in march 21, so a bit more than one year after the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, so that is only a bit more than one year.

reference in line 68 points to p.1 but the article referred to has the page range pp: 385-390

or in line 143 "be" is missing.

Author Response

Please find attached a copy of reviewer two feedback

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Reviewer 3 Report

Thank you for your interesting manuscript. Overall, I believe that your manuscript is publishable in Education Sciences. Here below, I suggest some minor issues for your consideration:

  1. You should refer more directly your Literature Review to the matters stated in the Call for Paper of this Special Issue. 
  2. Method: could you please, provide detailed information of the participants? You may summarize their profile in a Table for clarification.
  3. Results: you may use a Figure or Table to summarize your findings; and subsequently describe the findings in words.
  4. Some related references that you may also use: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2020.1823945 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02619768.2020.1821184?src=recsys 

Author Response

Please find attached a copy of response to reviewer three

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

the main drawback of the paper indicated in the previous review: On the other hand, it is a partial study on a specific institution, so there is a bias on the culture and ways of acting of this institution, being in this case difficult to extrapolate results towards a generalization of Higher Education. It would be convenient to extend this same study to other institutions and countries or regions to give greater consistency to the research results.
Regarding the results, the total population under study is not found, only those who finally answered, so that it is not possible to know the significance of the study, even if it is only for the institution studied.

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Author Response

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