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Editor’s Note

Navigating Educational Leadership and Management for Future-Forward Education

From affecting students and educators to improving learning outcomes and shaping future leaders and productive, positive cultures, educational leadership is critical for transforming education for human and planetary flourishing. Leadership that makes a difference is our chance to motivate numerous others to steer the collective humanity toward an inclusive, equitable future. This edition of the .ed is an attempt to embark on that course.

Aaryan Salman

Cover Story

Opening the Trap Door: Redesigning Educational Leadership for the Future

The current post-pandemic educational challenges necessitate a redesign of educational leadership that breaks away from the strategy of making minor, piecemeal adjustments to the education enterprise. This redesign, by definition, will disrupt and unsettle the power brokers that have a hold on the present state of education.

Prof. Maria Guajardo

Cover Story

Empowering Educational Leaders: Unleashing Optimal Performance through Values-Based Leadership

The article emphasizes self-reflection, posing critical questions about personal values and making decisions in alignment with those values. It asserts that a leader's core values, beyond skills, shape their character and relationships. It also highlights the role of values in decision-making, promoting internal cohesion, and meeting individual or collective needs.

Craig Fullerton

Featured Articles

How to Lead Your Community Toward a Shared Vision of Student Success

This article talks about cultivating a culture of innovation through the modifying the curriculum and assessment to professional development and the use of resources.

Suzie Boss

Research

How Educational Leaders Can Cultivate Resilience

The nature of education has transformed to become more holistic in several ways — explicitly highlighting the importance of empathy, customizing instruction to the learner, foregrounding equity and inclusion, and providing emotional support as foundational to instruction. Therefore, studying the relationships between the modality of practice (online, hybrid, face-to-face, and the quality of education has become critically important.

Dr. Roy Schwartzman

Featured Articles

Building Strong Educational Leadership for the Digital Era: Navigating the Post-Pandemic Landscape

This article talks about how the COVID-19 crisis affected education systems worldwide and the need for the improvement of school leaders in the post-pandemic era

Dr. Antonios Kafa

Featured Articles

A Case on How Educational Leadership can Inspire Student Leadership and Actions for Sustainable Development

Realizing the impact on local and global scales that educational leadership can drive through enabling and fostering student leadership.

Mackenzie Smart

Dr. Erik Jon Byker

Official Communiqué

Statement of the Global Citizenship Foundation President Aaryan Salman on Young People and Educators in Ukraine

We are deeply concerned by the intensifying hostilities in Ukraine, which puts the lives and well-being of children, youth, and educators in harm's way.

Aaryan Salman

Editor’s Note

How Can We Mainstream and Advance Global Citizenship Education in Formal Education Systems?

For any school or university to realize the transformative potential of GCED to the fullest, one has to move beyond looking at the implementation of GCED as yet another subject in the curricular framework but has to adopt an integrated institution-wide contextual approach that involves all stakeholders including the wider community.

Aaryan Salman

Opinion

‘Education for Homeland Earth’ Framework to Mainstream Global Citizenship Education – The Austrian Experience

Education for Homeland Earth is a formula for a transformative, postcolonial, socially critical, ecologically enlightened Global Citizenship Education (GCED). The formula comes from the title of a book written by the French philosopher Edgar Morin and Anne Brigitte Kern in the 1990s.

Prof. Werner Wintersteiner

Opinion

Pathways to Mainstream and Advance the Concept of Global Citizenship Education in the Arab World

The importance of this study is manifested by events that have highlighted deteriorating human conditions, particularly in what we are witnessing in third world countries including the Arab world, which is facing a lot of setbacks at several levels.

Prof. Amani G. Jarrar

Featured Articles

Fostering a Global Citizenship Education that Addresses ‘Ecological Footprint’ and ‘Ecological Handprint’

The phenomena of childlessness and treelessness are two examples that highlight the requirement for global citizenship education to question our existing mindsets and to provide alternative ways of thinking and structured opportunities for alternative practices.

Dr. Hermann J. Abs

Transformative Pedagogy

Anchoring the Pillars of Sustainability Education in Critical Cosmopolitan Theory to Advance Global Citizenship Education

The purpose of our article is to report on practices to advance global citizenship through Education for Sustainable Development. Many educators find it difficult to find time to teach sustainability topics in the wake of mandated curriculums, standardized testing, and constant pivots in instructional time due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Erik Jon Byker

Kaitlyn O. Holshouser

Cover Story

Global Citizenship Education and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of Hope

This article looks specifically at how global citizenship education can contribute to providing learners with a vision and purpose to address the current global challenges. It suggests that one way of doing this is to look to the ideas of Paulo Freire and his vision of a pedagogy of hope.

Dr. Douglas Bourn

Featured Articles

How Can Global Citizenship Education Foster Creativity?

Being a citizen means being a citizen of somewhere and, indeed, since its historical emergence, citizenship has always been ‘local’ or, better said, regional and then national. And yet, the interconnected world of today and the interlinked nature of its problems consistently challenge national boundaries and nationalistic sentiments.

Dr. Vlad Petre Glăveanu

Professional Development

Advancing Global Citizenship Education and Sustainable Development Goals through a TEDx Event: Lessons from University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The purpose of our article is to showcase a practice for fostering global citizenship education through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Specifically, we highlight ways to help prepare undergraduate students in higher education for global citizenship through hybrid spaces of learning.

Dr. Erik Jon Byker

Mahita Sadula

Featured Articles

On the Development of Global Citizenship: Tools, Experiences, Goals, and Reflection

Through these efforts, we have struck gold. Not as much in the problematizing, reifying, and determining of the pedagogical conditions conducive to global citizenship development, but actually in the citizen-students who seem to understand what it means to be a global citizen.

Dr. Lane Graves Perry III

Cover Story

High Impact Strategies to Mainstream Global Citizenship Education in Teacher Education

The competencies and values fostered in the process of GCED are critical for the economic productivity and prosperity of individuals and contribute to inclusion, peace, equity, and sustainability in communities and societies.

Dr. Linyuan Guo-Brennan

Opinion

Understanding the Attitudes of Columbia’s Educators towards Fostering Global Citizenship Education

In Bogotá-Colombia, an investigation was developed that addresses Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and complex thinking as a proposal to strengthen teacher training.

Elisa Álvarez

Dr. Javier Collado Ruano

Cover Story

Global Citizenship as Personal Aspiration: Inspiring Students to Seek the Meaning of Global Citizenship in Their Lives

Once inspired to seek the meaning of global citizenship as a personal aspiration, it is not a stretch for young persons to feel a sense of responsibility for their interconnected planet and take whatever action they can to protect and sustain it.

Dr. Paul Sherman

Concept Note

Concept Note: International Conference on Transformative Education 2022

The concept note on Transformative Education sets the context for the International Conference on Transformative Education for Global Citizenship and Sustainable Development 2022 organized by the Global Citizenship Foundation.

Aaryan Salman

Editor’s Note

From the Editor's Desk: Focus on Social and Emotional Learning as a Foundational Literacy To Ensure Whole-Child Development

I believe, the missing element of foundational literacies across educational systems — listening, speaking, reading, and writing — has been Social and Emotional Learning/Literacy.

Aaryan Salman

Transformative Pedagogy

The Futures of Higher-Ed: Towards a Values-based University Curriculum?

It is crucial that a higher education curriculum should be developed that can produce learners who can take their place in a globalized environment by acting in a humane, transformative, critical, and emancipated way.

Dr Prof Emiliano Bosio

Global Events

Reimagining Global Citizen Festival 2021

The Global Citizen Festival inspires thousands to take up causes of global citizenship. Since the festival had to be adjourned due to COVID-19, this forces all parties involved to come together and find a way to continue the movement with the new limitations.

Dr. Evan Saperstein

Research

Shaping Young People’s Identity as Global Citizens: A Social Psychological View of Global Citizenship

When teachers, administration, and the wider community consistently and persistently encourage students to take on and promote values related to global citizenship, they move toward identifying as global citizens.

Dr. Iva Katzarska-Miller

Dr. Stephen Reysen

Global Champions

Celebrating the Inspiring Life of Rahed, A Young Afghan Peacebuilder

The article remembers Mohamad Rahed, a bright college student pursuing Policy and Administration with the hope to become a politician. Rahed lost his life in the unfortunate attack on the Kabul University in 2020. Terrorism was never the answer, and it will never be.

Shantal Lukoye

Youth Voice

Youth Voice: Here’s Why Policymakers Need to Bring Inclusive Reforms in Education

There are some that I found in school and those that I joined with, and others who were left behind. Are you wondering why?

Kelvin Karanja

Youth Voice

Youth Voice: Here’s one skill 21st-century education should develop at an early age

The world is growing more and more tech-savvy. The world has shifted online from businesses to education. The article sheds light on how the adoption of technology is transforming everything and the importance around the same.

Rainia Rashid

Opinion

Shaping Intentional Gender Diversity and Inclusion Practices in Education

The references to diversity in the routine of an early childhood setting may be tokenistic to tick boxes but may be restricted by the entrenched negative attitudes towards diversity and difference.

Dr. Chandrika Devarakonda

Opinion

Building Brighter Futures of Education with Lessons from the Past

The sooner we are able to strengthen inquiry-based and genuinely holistic learning environments, the better equipped our children would be to face the challenges of the future.

Dr. Amrita Vohra

Opinion

How Can Schools Use the Disruption to Shape LGBTI+ Inclusive Futures of Education?

If all of us take this time to join the disruption and rebuild spaces of diversity, equity, and inclusion, then we can live in a world where LGBTI+ youth live free and equal.

Cody Freeman

Featured Articles

Futures of Education in a Digitally Globalized Era

The worldwide chaos that COVID-19 has wreaked on much of school education since early in 2019 seems likely only to accelerate the importance of such technologies for learning.

Prof. Michael J. Reiss

Featured Articles

Arts As Emancipatory Pedagogy of the Futures of Education

The education systems worldwide lack inclusivity and the focus on social-emotional learning is more than ever. Can art be the medium for the demonstration of inclusive practice that supports an asset-based approach to teaching, learning, and development?

Dr. Alida Anderson

Kristen Wendt

Cover Story

The Future of Education Lies in the Integration of Social-Emotional and Cognitive Learning

The future of education lies in harnessing the social and emotional dimensions of learning to equip our global community to navigate our societies towards the common good.

David Adams

Cover Story

A Reimagined Future of Education is Global and Blended Learning

As systems move forward with redesigning education, a critical component should be teaching students to be globally competent. How can education systems necessitate a blend with balanced technological guidance to make the youth future-ready?

Heather Singmaster

Guest Editorial

Futures of Education, a Springboard to Future-Proof Societies

The essence of learning lies in activating students as the owners of their education. Pedagogy must shun predictability and encourage curiosity, innovation, and engagement.

Dr. Ashok K Pandey

Cover Story

SEL and Systemic Change: The Role of Educator Well-Being

“Without well teachers, we will not have healthy schools and successful students”

Dr. Mark T Greenberg

Professional Development

The Neuro-Science Behind How Cooperative Learning Augments Social-Emotional Learning Skills

Students who participate in successful cooperative group learning throughout their education and develop PFC networks with the full array of executive functions and emotional control networks will have the 21st-century skillsets — the thinking and behaviors defined as executive functions, and the cognitive, social, and emotional behaviors.

Dr. Judy Willis

Transformative Pedagogy

Building Social-Emotional Learning Skills in Early Years through Community Connections

A core component of the generic SEL programs and focused educational experiences has been empathy.

Dr. Erica Frydenberg

Rachel Liang

Youth Voice

Fostering Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration to Implement Social-Emotional Learning in Schools

Challenges facing countries and different schools may vary widely, bringing in a set of roadblocks in implementing SEL programs.

Waridah Makena

Featured Articles

Social and Emotional Learning – An Antidote for Bullying in the Classroom

Explicit integration of social and emotional learning offers an opportunity to transform education - not just in terms of its outcomes but also in terms of the individuals it can produce.

Dr. Nandini Chatterjee Singh

Renuka Rautela

Dr. Neelima Chopra

Featured Articles

The Possibilities of Digital Play in Advancing Effective Social and Emotional Learning

Empathy, the ability to understand and share the feelings of others, is an important aspect of social and emotional learning. It can be demonstrated and potentially cultivated through the opportunities afforded in digital play.

Dr. Fei Victor Lim

Opinion

The Critical Role of School Leaders in Implementing Social and Emotional Learning

School leaders are to be encouraged to expand and strengthen their efforts to implement SEL. Supporting and facilitating SEL must be seen as a very valuable and important aspect of their leadership role.

Dr. Norris M Haynes

Education News

A First Global Survey on Social and Emotional Skills

This work is a start and covers a range of outcomes which research shows are highly predictive for labor-market and social success, such as open-mindedness (including curiosity and creativity), task performance (including responsibility, self-control, and persistence), sociability and assertiveness, collaboration as well as stress resistance and emotional control.

Andreas Schleicher

Featured Articles

A Quest for Common Ground: Global Education and Social-Emotional Learning

SEL is about mindfulness and developing a consciousness in regards to one’s emotional well-being as well as to the planet’s well-being.

Dr. Erik Jon Byker

Opinion

Social-Emotional Learning — An Essential Vehicle to Promote Inclusive Education

Authentic social-emotional learning can benefit all students, as it necessitates the inclusion of students of all forms of diversity, especially students with disabilities, to meet the objectives outlined within this definition of SEL.

Sacha Cartagena

Blog

A Teacher’s Role in Supporting Student Social and Emotional Learning

The sense of safety and security arises from nurturing and supportive environments where educators show sensitivity and care towards children’s social and emotional needs on a consistent basis.

Dr. Snezhana Djambazova-Popordanoska

Cover Story

Framing a Vision for Effective Global Social and Emotional Learning

The extensive variety and diversity are valuable, as the variations reflect the values and ideas of those building and engaging in SEL efforts in diverse contexts around the world.

Natasha Raisch

Rebecca Bailey

Sonya Temko

Dr. Stephanie M Jones

Transformative Pedagogy

ASPIRE to Safe and Effective Social-Emotional Learning

Evidence suggests that ASPIRE can make all the difference both to students’ experience of SEL and the perspectives and competencies they acquire.

Dr. Sue Roffey

Youth Voice

How to implement Social and Emotional Learning that Strengthens Global Citizenship Education?

While much of the extant research highlights the value of SEL in driving students’ individual development and self-empowerment, what remains under-explored though is the potential of SEL in advancing an education which aims at the transformation of the wider society.

Xiaqiuzi Han

Blog

Contemplation Music Writing’ Strikes Emotional Chords with Kids

Improving communication, creativity, and artistic skills will bring down walls between you and your class because everyone will stop and see each other.

Jeffrey Pflaum

Guest Editorial

Guest Editorial: Role of Social-Emotional Learning in Staving Off Entropy

To embrace social-emotional learning is to imbue our societies with the skills and the will to continue our struggle to maintain community over atomization, meaning over cynicism, and purpose from pain.

David Adams

Editor’s Note

From the Editor’s Desk: Futures of Education Edition

Reflecting on UNESCO's outlook on the futures of education and recognizing the fact that there is not one but many futures of education, the articles in this edition reflect on the many futures of education.