After their launch by the UN in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been seen as landmarks for global survival. Higher education has been given a key role in the implementation of the SDGs, and the current article investigates how a sample of Nordic higher education institutions have been adapting to the SDGs. Based on the…

Within the framework of the higher education internationalisation agenda, academic mobility has become a prevailing policy pillar in most universities, engaging both students and teaching staff. A growing body of literature investigates students' experiences as the outcome of various mobility programmes. However, the encounters of teaching staff…

The article presents a systematic review of studies on the construction of current policy on labor inclusion, highlighting the role of the arts in the international landscape. The aim of this article is to analyze studies that address inclusive labor policies, highlighting the arts as a labor sector in the international context. A systematic…

In this paper, we argue for the moral and not merely the legal right to education for refugee children. National education in many countries is challenged by refugee flows and influx of displaced people. However, there is a tendency to think of refugee flows as isolated events rather than parts of the dynamics of a world society that national…

One in every 10 children has a disability. These 240 million children, like all others, have hopes and dreams. Yet they also face unique challenges and barriers shaped by ableism and stigma. This report documents UNICEF and its partners' disability evidence generation from 2018 to 2022. It underscores the organization's deep-rooted commitment to…

The Higher Education sector has a critical role to play in shaping our global response to "wicked problems" and nowhere is this more evident than in university research, teaching, and public engagement on sustainability that seeks to tackle the increasingly perilous environmental situation. However, despite this critical civic mission,…

Policy documents from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and UNESCO have stressed the need to prepare students for what has been termed a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) world. The COVID-19 pandemic is an extreme case of a VUCA event that grants the opportunity to examine whether special and…

Numerous higher education institutions globally are actively incorporating international and global dimensions into their curricula, a trend also evident in the internationalization strategies of many Canadian universities and colleges. Notably, along with internationalization, Indigenization and equity, diversity, and inclusion-related endeavors…

This literature review paper aims to explore the current state of transformative learning theory in a global context by examining how scholars from different world regions understand, utilize, and develop transformative learning theory in their own contexts. Transformative learning theory has been a significant framework for investigating…

Literature has highlighted the importance of having a reasonable adjustment approach as a measure of social justice to provide inclusive education for all students. However, the growing globalisation and commercialisation of vocational education and training has tended to encourage provider organisations to use more flexible reasonable adjustments…

This case study establishes explicit connections to theories of cultural conflict, such as Ting-Toomey's Face-Negotiation Theory, which explains how cultural groups manage conflict, and Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity, which outlines the progression toward a more inclusive educational environment. The leadership…

This paper presents findings from a review of 19 national curriculum policy frameworks (NCPFs) across the globe and discusses dominant and culturally specific discourses that shape early childhood education (ECE). We combine two frameworks of developmental universality and specificity and culturally contextualised pedagogy to explore whether and…

Curriculum internationalization involves orienting a curriculum from an international perspective, building students' and educators' competence at professional and societal levels, engaging them in multicultural and multilingual experiences and shaping them into global professionals. Educators adopt leadership and professional development…

At the midway point towards the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030, this critical volume focuses on how a range of contextually diverse countries are progressing towards inclusive education. Contributors critically consider the current state of inclusive education in their own countries in relation to meeting the UN's Agenda 2030 initiative and…

This book offers an expert perspective on two key phenomena in the development of the information society, namely digital inclusion and digital exclusion. Despite the intensive digitalization of various areas in human activity, the lack of proper information and communications technology (ICT) literacy, the lack of access to high-speed Internet,…