Global Education & Learning International Conference - Register by 25 May!

The #ANGELconference2025 will be the fifth of biennial one of the Academic Network on Global Education & Learning (ANGEL). Leading scholars, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners will exchange about Global Education research ”for Democracy, Peace, Human Rights, Sustainability, and Global Social Justice". They will

• explore international policy frameworks and their effects on Global Education
• encourage alignment with the new UNESCO Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development, and
• further the vision of the European Declaration on Global Education to 2050 (‘Dublin Declaration’)
• address many contemporary and pressing social issues, in an educational and pedagogical perspective (see below).

Registration is open until 25 May.

The Early Career Researcher Network Pre-Conference takes place on 4 June (as of 14h). Developed by the ANGEL ECR sub-network, it facilitates research collaboration and the discussion of emerging trends.

ANGEL is partnering with the University of Bamberg, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Engagement Global, and GENE. 

The 2023 edition took place in partnership with UNESCO at their headquarters in Paris. View information and pictures here.

The conference will also cover the following themes and issues:

1. Challenges to democracy and the role and potential of Global Education within the educational system in addressing these challenges and strengthening democracy;
2. Challenges to peace and the role and potential of Global Education in promoting peace and conflict prevention by linking humanitarian, development and peace efforts;
3. The centrality of human rights, and of Human Rights Education, in Global Education;
4. Sustainability, planetary citizenship, climate justice, Climate Education; future-oriented education studies, including curriculum development that emphasizes access through subject-specific approaches;
5. Social justice, local and global: visions, understandings, and pedagogical approaches; systemic and epistemic considerations;
6. Varieties of Global Education - Global Citizenship Education, Education for Sustainable Development, Human Rights and Peace Education - overlaps, underlaps and the strengthening of synergies;
7. Decolonisation through approaches to research, how international partnerships and cultures of decolonisation are formed and how a range of voices and perspectives can be reflected in both the research process and in identifying outcomes;
8. Local, regional, national, continental and international approaches to policymaking in Global Education;
9. Global Education in teacher education or training;
10. Research-based innovation in Global Education: Addressing future challenges and incorporating digitalisation, while navigating the trade-offs with AI.
11. Exploring the linkages between research and policy in Global Education and Learning

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