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Abraham Bernárdez-Gómez; María José Bolarín Martínez; Eva María González-Barea; María Jesús Rodríguez-Entrena – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2024
The integration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in educational centers has become an imperative need to prepare new generations with the necessary competencies to respond to new global challenges. Schools, as educators, have a responsibility to foster education that promotes sustainable development, ensuring that new generations adopt…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Program Implementation, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education
Mmantsetsa Marope – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2025
This is the first of a series of normative documents intended to guide the future of curriculum at a global level. This first Document calls for a global paradigm shift for curriculum. In the new paradigm, curriculum is reconceptualized and repositioned to best meet current and future challenges and opportunities. This first Document also anchors…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Secondary School Curriculum, 21st Century Skills, Global Approach
Ching-Ching Lin; Ming-Hsuan Wu – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2025
As a strategic initiative aimed to enhance English communication skills and bolster the global competitiveness of the general population, Taiwan's Bilingual 2030 Policy takes place at the intersection of neoliberalism, globalization, and the global spread of the English language. The neoliberal framing of Taiwan's language education policy has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Barriers, Global Approach
Suzanne Lundvall; Thordis Gisladottir; Åge Lauritzen; Annemari Munk Svendsen; Kasper Salin; Runa Stefansdottir; Andreas Fröberg – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2024
In the present study, we present a cross-country comparison of the status and condition of sustainable development (SD) in the Nordic physical education (PE) curricula. The aim of the study was to increase knowledge of how SD perspectives are represented and conceptualised in the Nordic PE curricula. An expert-driven research approach was used…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Curriculum, Sustainable Development, Cross Cultural Studies
Chou, Pei-I – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
In today's heavily science-dependent global society, science education should be the key to learners more fully grasping global issues. A content analysis of 24 elementary school science textbooks in Taiwan was undertaken to examine how global issues were represented. The results revealed that about half of the content was related to global…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Elementary School Science, Science Education, Textbook Content
Steven Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to identify ways a Global Schools Initiative in rural schools, especially in northwestern North Carolina, supported students, teachers, and the greater community. The study reviewed the factors that facilitated this initiative and looked at the impact the initiative had on students, teachers, and the community. I…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Rural Education, Rural Schools, Small Schools
Afrikanov, Lachezar – Online Submission, 2023
This book proposes an innovative theoretical and practical model to promote green education in primary schools, focusing on inspiring teachers to design and execute effective green education activities. This model was pilot-tested with over 60 teachers in Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia. The book is divided into four chapters. The first examines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Conservation (Environment), Sustainability
Ruth Fielding; Angelica Galante; Gary J. Bonar; Meihui Wang; Yvonne God – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) indicates that education for global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity should be embedded at all levels of curricula. In this paper, we share findings from an analysis of curriculum documents in Victoria, Australia and Québec, Canada that identified learning related to this…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Sustainable Development, Objectives, International Organizations
Cuicui Li – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
Global education in China, particularly in the rural regions, has not been extensively investigated. This paper discussed Chinese schoolteachers' perceptions of and approaches to global education to address a gap in the Western discourses. A total of 12 in-service schoolteachers were identified by the snowball sampling method. All participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Global Education, Teacher Attitudes
Santamaría-Cárdaba, Noelia; Martins, Cristina; Sousa, João – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
The global society in which we are immersed is facing the challenges set out in 2030 Agenda: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study focuses on whether mathematics teachers teach SDGs alongside with their subject in schools located in rural areas of Castilla and León (Spain). Specifically, this research aims to find out how teachers of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Gynther, Per; Ahlquist, Eva-Maria Tebano – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2022
The aim of this article is to understand how Montessori education, according to Maria Montessori, will enable 6--12-year-olds to meet future challenges and to care for and contribute to the wellbeing of society and the planet as a whole. This article reports on a qualitative content analysis of four books written by Maria Montessori. The analysis…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Citizenship Education, Global Approach, Ecology
Rachel Parker; Jennie Chainey; Payal Goundar; Sarah Richardson; Anna Dabrowski; Amy Berry; Claire Scoular – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2023
Substantive work has been undertaken to define and frame global citizenship education (GCED). Global citizenship and related terms are included in the curricula and policy statements of many diverse nations around the world (Parker & Fraillon, 2016; APCEIU, 2020b), however, the education sector often struggles to enact and monitor GCED in ways…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Objectives, Global Approach, Citizenship Education
Strachan, Amy – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2020
This article contends that in England, where the status of science as a core subject has been weakened due to a focus on high-stakes accountability testing, a global learning approach reignites science as a subject that can nurture active global citizens. It argues that teacher knowledge and teachers' personal and professional commitment to global…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Science Education
Cruz, Mário – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
In this article we will present a study undertaken in the scope of a Content and Language Integrated Learning project, which was implemented at a local private primary school in the Oporto area, Portugal. This project takes into account the promotion of a teaching and learning process based on the fostering of 21st Century skills, the so-called…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Bilingual Education, Skill Development, 21st Century Skills
Lone K. Svarstad; Karen Risager – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
This article presents a model of intercultural learning that may be used in the planning and implementation of citizenship education in foreign/second/world language teaching. The Cycle model of intercultural learning aims at the development of global citizenship and comprises four phases: noticing, comparing, reflecting and interaction. Among the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning