Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Education in the New Agenda 2030
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 101761
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Interests: education; technology; higher education; learning; methodologies; social justice; social inclusion
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Interests: education; special education; technology; methodologies; higher education; primary education
Interests: education; primary education; higher education; social education; non-formal education (sport); sustainable education; technology; active methodologies
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
UNESCO has recently published the objectives for working toward sustainable development over the next few years. The challenges for education, understood as a fundamental pillar for promoting greater social justice and cohesion among the population, are to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education, as well as to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. The aims of this are to: (a) promote effective learning environments; (b) increase the number of scholarships available to developing countries; and (c) increase the supply of qualified teachers. In addition, the challenges for the next decade include achieving universal primary and secondary education; an early childhood development and universal pre-primary education; an equal access to technical/vocational and higher education; relevant skills for decent work; gender equality and inclusion; universal youth and adult literacy; and an education for sustainable development and global citizenship. These sustainable development objectives propose as an educational goal that all students acquire “the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes needed to build sustainable and peaceful societies, including through education for global citizenship and education for sustainable development”.To do this, it is essential to develop strategies that allow for changes in the education system in which sustainable aspects are considered. In this change, higher education plays a very important role in training future generations, in their values, attitudes, knowledge and, in short, in the exercise of responsible, civic citizenship committed to the objectives of sustainable development.
This Special Issue aims to address the various trends, challenges, and opportunities in the field of education in a context marked by the COVID-19 pandemic at the global level. Because of this pandemic, we have been immersed in a state of confinement that has meant that the education system has had to adapt to a new teaching–learning methodology from one day to the next—a change that has made us realize the social inequality that exists among our students, who in many cases do not have the necessary means to be able to follow classes normally.
Prof. Dr. Antonio-Manuel Rodríguez-García
Prof. María-Natalia Campos-Soto
Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos de la Cruz-Campos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- education trends
- education challenges
- education opportunities
- Agenda 2030
- social justice
- students’ experience
- teachers’ experience
- remote teaching
- online assessments
- technological challenges
- quality assurance
- graduate attributes
- academic standards
- inclusive education
- quality education
- education for sustainable development
- education for global development
- sustainability education
- pedagogy of sustainability
- sustainable goals
- COVID-19
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