Categories of Articles
We accept a broad range of articles and submissions. To determine the correct placement within The Alexander Journal’s categories, please consult the following list of guidelines:
Alexander Technique Practice, Performance, and Education
Articles in this category provide value to the reader by offering insights and practical teaching strategies. They ask questions about methodology and solve problems.
They are often based on a particular teacher’s specialty or area of expertise.
Specific guidelines for Alexander Technique Practice articles:
A history research article makes an original contribution to historical knowledge.
They are guided by a historical question, problem, particular insight from or disagreement with another scholar’s previous claim. They are grounded in evidence from primary sources, meaning materials produced during the period your article addresses. This type of article is in conversation with existing scholarship, which often involves secondary sources. Your article should offer a fresh and insightful way to think about a historical problem or insight.
Some examples of topics that fall under the History category:
Specific guidelines for Alexander Technique History articles:
Alexander Technique Quantitative Research
Quantitative Research is used to study the area of interest by generating numerical data or data that can be transformed into usable statistics. It can quantify attitudes, opinions, behaviors, and other defined variables – and generalize findings into hypotheses based on results from a sample population. Quantitative Research uses measurable data to formulate hypotheses and uncover patterns in research. Quantitative research design and data collection methods are generally more structured than Qualitative methods. Quantitative data are analyzed by numerical comparisons and statistical inferences. Data is usually reported through statistical analysis.
Basic:
Efficacy:
Specific guidelines for Alexander Technique Quantitative Research articles:
Alexander Technique Qualitative Research
Qualitative Research is primarily exploratory research. It is used to understand underlying reasons, opinions, and motivations and provide new insights. It assumes a dynamic and negotiated reality. It provides insights into the area of interest. Qualitative research helps generate hypotheses and further investigates and understands quantitative data. It can also help to develop ideas or hypotheses for potential quantitative research. It answers the hows and whys instead of how many or how much. Qualitative Research is also used to uncover trends in thought and opinions, and dive deeper into the problem. One of the strengths of qualitative research is its ability to explain processes and patterns of human behavior that can be difficult to quantify. Qualitative data is looking for themes and patterns that can be difficult to quantify, and it is essential to ensure that the context and narrative of qualitative work are not lost by trying to quantify something that is not meant to be quantified.
This area includes mixed methods and others, e.g., case studies, participatory, multimodal, creative methods, arts-based approaches, community-based research, historical and archival.
Specific guidelines for Other Research Methods articles based on the type of articles:
This broad category can include items of interest to the Alexander Technique Community in general and items of historical interest to be preserved for posterity. Their inclusion is at the discretion of the Editors. These items are not peer-reviewed.
Summaries and Reviews of Research Already Published
Guidelines for Summaries are as follows:
Guidelines for all categories of articles:
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