Global Education Digest 2024: 7th edition and GEL database updates.

We are pleased to confirm the release of the seventh edition of the Academic Network on Global Education & Learning (ANGEL) project's Global Education Digest. This project aims to trace, collate, and make available academic and research materials relevant to the field of global education in 11 different languages, providing an invaluable guide for researchers, policymakers and practitioners, and facilitating an overview of the development of this area of research.

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Outputs

As with the last edition, the project outputs are a report and a data upload. The published report contains data summaries, discussion, and analysis of the project research by all 11 contributor teams, as well as the general introduction and reflections on the whole project. The identified publications / bibliographies are now listed in the new GEL Database (Global Education and Learning), an open-access research platform hosted by the University of Bologna.

If you are interested in Global Citizenship Education, Development Education, Human Rights Education, Education for Sustainability, Education for Peace / Conflict Prevention and Intercultural Education, then you will find relevant material included.

This fifth multilingual edition covers material that has been published recently in Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish. As a general rule, the project looked at material published between October 2023 and the end of 2024, but some older material has been included by some teams if it was not included in previous editions. The project has been drawn together in cooperation with or as a cooperative work with an international contributor team drawn from amongst the network’s growing membership, with a total of 42 contributors involved this year.

The Digest project aims to achieve several goals simultaneously:

• Provide a comprehensive picture of the relevant literature published in GE in the most widely spoken European languages
• Bring together data from several disconnected publishing spheres, facilitating comparison and encouraging reflection
• Directly illustrate the linguistic asymmetries and language barriers within academic publishing
• Providing a project and a resource that would galvanise and develop the ANGEL community

Project background

In the last decade the number of publications on the theme of global education and related issues have increased dramatically. These issues have gained momentum worldwide, not only in the political agenda of many European countries, but also within school practice, and academic discourse. The Global Education Digest project, begun in 2018, aimed to focus on this latter trend by outlining the growing space that Global Education (GE) occupies within the scholarly discourse. 

The project this year has been coordinated by Kester Muller (Development Education Research Centre, UCL Institute of Education), under the scientific supervision of Professor Massimiliano Tarozzi (UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education) and Professor Doug Bourn (Development Education Research Centre), and supported by Global Education Network Europe, in the framework of ANGEL activities. This project, along with the other activities of the ANGEL network, is co-funded by the European Union.*

Contributors

You can find biographies for all of the contributors at the back of the publication.

• DUTCH / NEDERLANDS: Bjorn Wansink & Sanne van Schijndel (Utrecht University)
• ENGLISH: Anielka Pieniążek Malgorzata (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society), Giannis S. Efthymiou (Brunel University London), Madeleine Le Bourdon (University of Leeds), Simon Brennan (Mary Immaculate College), QueAnh Dang & Luca Morini (Centre for Global Learning, Coventry University)
• FINNISH/ SUOMI: Meri Häärä (Tampere University), Vihtori Kylänpää (Non-Military Service Centre in Finland), Riikka Suhonen (University of Helsinki), Selja Koponen (University of Helsinki) 
• FRENCH / FRANÇAIS: Cécile Giraud (ENABEL) & Lise Trégloze (Université Rennes 2)
• GERMAN / DEUTSCH: Susanne Timm, Annette Scheunpflug & Anne-Katrin Holfelder (University of Bamberg)
• ITALIANO / ITALIAN: Luca Vittori (University of Bologna), Stefania Moser, Giulia Filippi (Free University of Bolzano) & Laura Landi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia).
• PORTUGUESE / PORTUGUÊS: PORTUGAL: Mónica Lourenço (Universidade de Coimbra), Francisco Parrança da Silva (Universidade de Aveiro), Joana Costa (Universidade do Porto / Sinergias ED), La Salete Coelho (Universidade do Porto, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo), Andreia Reis (Universidade de Lisboa), e Dalila Pinto Coelho (Universidade do Porto). BRASIL: Silvia Elisabeth Moraes, Pedro Rogério (Universidade Federal do Ceará), Josefina Moraes Arraut (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande), Eduardo Moraes Arraut (Aeronautics Institute of Technology), Ludmila Freire (State University of Minas Gerais) 
• POLISH / POLSKI: Magdalena Kuleta-Hulboj (Warsaw University) & Dobrawa Aleksiak (Maria Grzegorzewska University)
• SLOVAK / SLOVENSKÝ JAZYK: Kristína Rankovová (Comenius University in Bratislava)
• SPANISH / ESPAÑOL: Adelina Calvo Salvador, Carlos Rodríguez Hoyos (University of Cantabria), Silvia Espinal Meza (University of Bristol) & Diego Posada (University of Padova) 
• SIMPLIFIED CHINESE /  汉语: Yuemiao Ma (University of Edinburgh), Ella (Jiayi) Zhang & Yichen Wang (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society)

* The establishment of this network and website has been made possible with funding support from the European Commission. The activities and publications of the network are the responsibilities of the organisers, the Development Education Research Centre, and can in no way be seen as reflecting the views of the European Commission.