On Becoming International…

摘要

When I became Editor of this journal in 2005, clearly a major item on the agenda for the relaunched journal was 'becoming international'. (Its previous title had been The Journal of Design and Technology Education). Of course, journal publications only reflect the research cultures from which the submitted papers originate, so no particular credit can be claimed except the extent to which the journal's policies have been open towards changes in these cultures and supportive of them. Nevertheless, the evidence provided by the papers published in the journal during this period concerning becoming international seemed an appropriate topic for my last editorial, alongside a glance at the journal's readership. This is what I wrote about the importance of becoming international in 2005.