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.
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
- Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/ykv5yfb2
- Audible: https://tinyurl.com/55bn288e
- SoundCloud: https://tinyurl.com/3v5fxknp
- Website: https://www.deepakbbhatt.com/businesstalk
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 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
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.
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.
Symposium panel at the ECER 2023 conference in Glasgow covered in the Seikyo newspaper in Japan
On 24th August 2023 a symposium titled “Global Citizenship as a Pedagogy of Hope” was held at a conference organized by the European Educational Research Association (EERA) on themes related to #interculturaleducation #socialjustice #sokaeducation #globalcitizenshipeducation and #sustainability
Access the Seikyo newspaper article published on 2nd September 2023 via this link, also copied below.
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.
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