Dear Colleagues,

As a number of scholars have observed, including Schumacher (1997), Orr (2004), Corcoran (2010), and Sterling (2010), that whilst levels of learning and education are rising, so too is our destruction of the planet. Yet, the target 4.7 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals requires that, by 2030, all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to address this apparent discontinuity by exploring how education and learning can support students of all ages develop the knowledge, skills, and values they will need to become agents of change for a more sustainable world. It acknowledges that such an education places special demands on learning, teaching, and assessment, and that these may, for example, fit particularly poorly within the confines of our current educational systems and institutions. Papers in this Special Issue may focus on addressing learning content, learning outcomes, pedagogies, and the learning environment; alternatively, they may wish to address the institutional or political challenges of delivering such an education.

We welcome all types of research, including quantitative and qualitative approaches, case studies, reviews, and well-argued conceptual pieces.

Dr. Alison Greig
Guest Editor

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• Interdisciplinarity/transdisciplinarity
• Knowledge–action gap
• Values–action gap
• Transformational learning
• Skills and competences for sustainability
• Social learning
• Affective learning