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.
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
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.
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.
Engaging the Earth Charter and Instituto Soka Amazônia at UNESCO, Paris
Outcomes from ongoing studies examining the Earth Charter and Environmental Education at the Soka Amazon Institute was presented on 20th June 2023 at a conference organized by the Academic Network on Global Education and Learning (ANGEL) held at UNESCO, Paris.
Covered by the Institute’s blog.
Symposium at ANGEL-UNESCO conference covered in the Seikyo newspaper in Japan
On 20th June 2023 a symposium titled “Global Citizenship Education and Sustainability: Engaging the Earth Charter and Value-Creating Perspectives” was held at a conference organized by the Academic Network on Global Education and Learning (ANGEL) held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
Conference materials can be found here. Symposium covered by the Seikyo newspaper in Japan – full article below.
International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning special issue UCL Press
Global Citizenship as a Pedagogy of Hope journal issue – an outcome of Academic Network on Global Education and Learning (ANGEL) and symposium at the 2022 British Educational Research Association (BERA) conference.
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