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.
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.
“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
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.
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.
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.
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.
18 August 2022 with Namrata Sharma
The Earth Charter International at the University for Peace in Costa Rica is hosting a series of Masterclasses. Participants can sign up for any number of sessions.
The masterclass with Namrata Sharma is developed to engage participants with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.7, which seeks to foster global citizens by 2030.
This class aims to:
Click here for more information on all classes.
Related Post: Value-creating global citizenship education and the Earth Charter: Integrating diverse perspectives within the UNESCO-led practice of GCE.
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