21st Century Education and Governance

Research at the intersection of education and governance examines how institutions, curricula, and policy frameworks can be redesigned to meet the pressures of climate change, deepening inequality, and rapid technological change — pressures that no single nation can manage alone. Much of the work draws on the Sustainable Development Goals as a shared reference point, asking whether global targets translate meaningfully into regional and local practice or remain aspirational at a distance. A central tension in the literature is whether equipping people with so-called 21st century skills — critical thinking, digital literacy, adaptive problem-solving — actually reduces structural inequality, or whether access to the tools that develop those skills is itself unequally distributed. Ongoing debates concern how knowledge is managed and shared across borders, and what governance arrangements can make education systems genuinely responsive to environmental and social crises rather than trailing behind them.

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Keywords

Sustainable Development GoalsEnvironmental PolicyClimate Change21st Century SkillsKnowledge ManagementGlobal Inequality