21st Century Education and Governance

Researchers working at the intersection of education, governance, and development examine how institutions, policies, and learning systems can be redesigned to address the compounding pressures of climate change, resource scarcity, and deepening global inequality. The work draws together questions about what skills and knowledge frameworks prepare people to navigate a rapidly changing world, alongside structural questions about how regional and international governance bodies translate commitments like the Sustainable Development Goals into meaningful local action. A central tension in current scholarship is whether educational technology and knowledge management tools genuinely expand opportunity across unequal contexts or tend to reinforce existing disparities in access and capacity. Researchers are also pressing on how environmental policy can be coordinated across jurisdictions with sharply different development priorities — a problem that sits at the heart of 21st-century governance.

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Keywords

Sustainable Development GoalsEnvironmental PolicyClimate Change21st Century SkillsKnowledge ManagementGlobal Inequality