New book, Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship (Bloomsbury 2025) and author interview featured in the EduVerse newsletter.
Video: Book launch, “Education for Sustainable Futures: Global Citizenship and the Earth Charter”
Watch a recording of the recent launch of “Education for Sustainable Futures: Global Citizenship and the Earth Charter“, an important new Emerald collection. The event features a brief outline of the work, and discussion with contributors on the themes that it covers. Watch it here.
Links available for further details of the launch, and the book website.
Blog Post: Advancing Global Education and Democracy through the Practice of Value-Creating Education
This blog post is an outcome of a panel discussion held at the Academic Network on Global Education and Learning (ANGEL) Conference 2025 in Berlin, Germany between 4-6 June. It discusses the need for political education, sustained critical reflection, and an emphasis on human development as essential for advancing the aims of global education.
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.
The recorded interview is available on these podcast channels:
Also available on:
- Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/4ybasdun
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- Audible: https://tinyurl.com/55bn288e
- SoundCloud: https://tinyurl.com/3v5fxknp
- Website: https://www.deepakbbhatt.com/businesstalk
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:
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
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.
Discussions on Value-Creating Education with the Soka Gakkai Educators Group in Spain
Featured in the Soka Gakkai de España (SGEs) monthly magazine, Global Civilization, No. 231, July 2024.
Photo capturing a rainbow over the building after the event.
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.
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