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Award-Winning Book Now Open Access: Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship

Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship: Intercultural, Ethical, and Justice-Based Approaches (Bloomsbury, 2025) has received two major honours and is now freely available as an open access book.

Nautilus Book Awards 2026: Grand Prize and Gold Award

The book won the Nautilus 2026 Grand Prize and the Gold Award in Social Sciences & Education. The Nautilus Book Awards recognise books that contribute to positive social change, social justice and a more sustainable world. The winners are listed on the Nautilus Book Awards website: Grand Prize and Social Sciences & Education Gold.

Now Open Access

Since 20 August 2026, the full book has been available to read and download free of charge on Bloomsbury Collections. This makes it accessible to educators, students, researchers and policymakers worldwide.

Among Bloomsbury’s Most Popular Books

The book is also among Bloomsbury’s most popular and most accessed open access titles.

About the Book

The book asks how teaching for sustainability and global citizenship can advance social-ecological justice through alternative paradigms. It examines how the environmental crisis affects formal, non-formal and informal education from a human rights perspective.

The book introduces value-creating global citizenship education, a pedagogical approach that builds on and extends the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A central aim is fostering resilience and hope through engaged relationships between learners and their environments.

It draws examples from several sources:

  • Indigenous knowledge
  • Diverse ecological worldviews
  • The Earth Charter
  • The Soka Amazon Institute
  • The United Nations Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network

The book offers practical guidance for educators and policymakers, including teaching and curriculum guidelines for integrating intercultural perspectives and developing a global outlook.

Citation:
Sharma, N. (2025). Education for sustainability and global citizenship: Intercultural, ethical, and justice-based approaches. London: Bloomsbury.

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New Publication: Handbook on Global Citizenship Education (Edward Elgar, 2026)

The Handbook on Global Citizenship Education, edited by William Gaudelli (Lehigh University, USA) and Ricardo Römhild (University of Bonn, Germany), has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing as part of the Elgar Handbooks in Education series.

About the Handbook

The Handbook offers a broad overview of current thinking and practice in teaching and learning for a global society. Its contributors, from around the world, examine the ethical responsibility of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) to support both human and ecological flourishing. The volume traces how the field has developed and situates it within today’s political and social climate. It also explores conceptual framings, practical applications and emerging challenges, and considers questions of power, sustainability and technology.

The Handbook is organised in four parts:

  • Theoretical and Conceptual Basis
  • Issues in GCE
  • Illustrations of Praxis
  • Curriculum and Policy

It is aimed at students and scholars of international education, curriculum studies and global citizenship education, as well as practitioners and policymakers.

Chapter: An intercultural and ethical framework for sustainability and Global Citizenship Education

Contributions include the closing chapter of the Curriculum and Policy section (Chapter 29). The chapter presents an intercultural and ethical framework that brings together sustainability and Global Citizenship Education. It builds on the author’s ongoing work on value-creating global citizenship education and on integrating diverse cultural perspectives into curriculum and teaching.

Citation:
Sharma, N. (2026). An intercultural and ethical framework for sustainability and Global Citizenship Education. In W. Gaudelli & R. Römhild (Eds.), Handbook on Global Citizenship Education (pp. 449–462). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Availability

The Handbook is available in hardback (ISBN 978 1 03535 017 9) and as an eBook (ISBN 978 1 03535 018 6). Details, the full table of contents and ordering options are on the Edward Elgar Publishing website. Institutional access and a sample chapter are available on Elgaronline.

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Explore Earth Charter Masterclass Recordings for Global Citizenship

The Earth Charter International (ECI) is located at the University for Peace in Costa Rica. It has made available recordings of its Earth Charter Masterclass Series. These sessions were originally delivered live between 2022 and 2023.

As mentioned on the ECI website: The full collection includes 20 Masterclasses in English, 7 in Spanish and 7 in Portuguese. The topics range from ethical leadership and sustainability to climate action and education.

Read details and watch here!

Also includes a Masterclass on Global Citizenship Education: Challenges and Opportunities – with Namrata Sharma

This class is aimed to:

  1. Offer an introduction to what global citizenship is, and what it means to be part of a global community; 
  2. Explore some approaches to teaching and pedagogy, including from less widely known perspectives; 
  3. Make connections between global citizenship education and the Earth Charter; 
  4. Engage with practical ideas and support for teachers who want to introduce global education into their practice (including guides, resources and further readings); 
  5. Offer links to networks of researchers and practitioners working in the field of global education, and related areas.

Dr. Namrata Sharma, Faculty, Consultant, UN Expert, Award-Winning Author 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.

Dr. Namrata Sharma, Faculty, Consultant, UN Expert, Award-Winning Author 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.

Dr. Namrata Sharma, Faculty, Consultant, UN Expert, Award-Winning Author 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.

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The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe 2024 Thematic Seminar

The benefits of an intercultural and holistic approach to education for sustainable development: a North-South perspective. University of Malta. 19 April 2024.

The Global Education thematic seminar is part of iLEGEND III: Intercultural Learning Exchange through Global Education, Networking and Dialogue (2023-2026), a Joint programme of the European Union and the Council of Europe: co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe. 

The seminar was attended by policymakers, practitioners, and speakers, including members of the Academic Network on Global Education & Learning (ANGEL).

More information can be found via this link.