Namrata Sharma, Faculty, Consultant, UN Expert Earth Charter

Podcast Interview on Sustainability and Global Citizenship Education

In this episode Dr. Deepak Bhatt from Business Talk interviews Dr. Namrata Sharma, faculty State University of New York, who discusses outcomes from her new book, Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship (Bloomsbury 2025). The interview is aimed at a wider audience, beyond educators and academics, and for all those interested in working on sustainability issues within their own communities.

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Namrata Sharma, Faculty, Consultant, UN Expert Earth Charter

Academic Conference on Global Education in Germany: Symposium on Value-Creating Education

Symposium panel held at the 2025 Academic Network on Global Education and Learning (ANGEL) Conference in Berlin. Featured on the front page of the Seikyo Newspaper in Japan.

Panel session commemorating the birth anniversary of Japanese educator, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi was held on June 6th. The session included discussions on the theory and current global practice of value-creating education, an approach to curriculum that emerged in 1930s Japan in response to an increasingly militaristic educational system focused on creating subjects of the state rather than contributive citizens of local and global communities.

Seikyo Newspaper clip below:

Namrata Sharma, Faculty, Consultant, UN Expert education for sustainability and global citizenship

New Book Addresses Teaching for Sustainability and Global Citizenship

Delighted to announce the arrival of my new book, Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship: Intercultural, ethical, and justice-based approaches published by Bloomsbury (2025).

It asks how we can address teaching for sustainability and global citizenship for social-ecological justice based on alternative paradigms, and offers practical solutions for planetary citizenship for educators and policymakers, including teaching and curriculum guidelines.

Link to the book, Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship

Link to the B𝗼𝗼𝗸 P𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄

Book Launch for Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship: event held at the Daisaku Ikeda Research Institute for Education and Development (IEDDAI), University of Alcalá, Spain on 20 February 2025. Recorded on YouTube.

Join the next book launch webinar event at the Development Education Research Center (DERC), IOE – University College London (UCL) on 23 April 2025.

Namrata Sharma, Faculty, Consultant, UN Expert Earth Charter

Journal Article Published in the Cuadernos del Instituto Ikeda (Spanish)

“Integrar la ciudadanía planetaria como tema transversal y enfoque escolar integral: Aprender desde la creación de valor.”

Link to the article: https://institutoikeda.ediciones-civilizacionglobal.com/article/integrar-la-ciudadania-planetaria-como-tema-transversal-y-enfoque-escolar-integral/

Citation: Sharma, N. (2025). Integrar la ciudadanía planetaria como tema transversal y enfoque escolar integral: Aprender desde la creación de valor (A. B. García Varela, Trans.). Cuadernos del Instituto Ikeda, 8, n.p. https://institutoikeda.ediciones-civilizacionglobal.com/article/integrar-la-ciudadania-planetaria-como-tema-transversal-y-enfoque-escolar-integral/

Modified and translated version of an open access journal article in English:

Sharma, N. (2023). Integrating planetary citizenship as a cross-curricular theme and a whole-institution approach: using a value-creating approach to learning. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.15.1.03

Namrata Sharma, Faculty, Consultant, UN Expert Earth Charter

Panel Session held on Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship

ECER-EERA – European Educational Research Association Conference, 27-30 August 2024, Nicosia, Cyprus

It was a delight to organize and chair the first panel session held at a major education conference centered on the philosophy of the Soka progenitor Daisaku Ikeda, and his influence on curriculum development and sustainability practices within selected higher education institutions worldwide.

In this session scholars explored the theory and practice of global citizenship education, with a special focus on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for sustainability. The objective of the session was to introduce new paradigms, perspectives and practices in higher education in the field of global citizenship education.

The presentations purposefully addressed educational institutions and curriculum development from across different countries which share a common ethical perspective. Soka or value-creating education is an approach to curriculum developed in twentieth century Japan.

The panel explored key terms and definitions being used by faculty in classrooms in relation to teaching for global citizenship and sustainability at Soka institutions and Soka-informed curriculum, including terms such as happiness, peace, sustainability, hope, and service.

Article published on the front page of the Japanese newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun.

Namrata Sharma, Faculty, Consultant, UN Expert Earth Charter

5th anniversary commemoration of the Daisaku Ikeda Institute for Research in Education and Development (IEDDAI), University of Alcalá

A commemorative event was held on 19 June 2024 to celebrate the anniversary of the Ikeda Institute established at the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain.

Read the Institute’s news article.

Also featured in the Soka Gakkai de España (SGEs) monthly magazine, Global Civilization, July 2024, No. 231, and the Seikyo Newspaper, Japan.

Namrata Sharma, Faculty, Consultant, UN Expert Earth Charter

Journal Article On the Soka Amazon Institute

Delighted to share on World Environment Day, the publication of our journal article engaging the Instituto Soka Amazônia in Manaus, Brazil, with reference drawn to the Earth Charter.

It showcases one example of the critical work being done by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as key actors in the fields of Sustainability and Global Education.

Article Reference: Sharma, N., and Kobashikawa T. (2024). Preserving biodiversity of the Amazon: Pedagogical implications for harmonious coexistence, sustainability and global citizenship. ZEP – Zeitschrift für internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik, 47(1), 16-19. https://doi.org/10.31244/zep.2024.01.05

Also see this blog post by the Soka Amazon Institute featuring the academic article.

Namrata Sharma, Faculty, Consultant, UN Expert Earth Charter

Earth Charter International 2024 Conference

Reimagining Education for Ecological Civilizations, Florida, 12-14 April 2024.

The three-day conference built on four previous Earth Charter International (ECI) Conferences focused on education for sustainability and global citizenship, and for planetary well-being. 

The recent conference truly reflected the spirit of the Earth Charter embodied by colleagues at ECI, the conference hosts, and participants.

Further, the presentations, keynotes, and discussions suggest growing evidence-based research and practice in the field of education for sustainability and global citizenship, and the use of the Earth Charter as a global ethical framework, and an educational approach.

Read Conference Report.