Education in Emergencies
Climate Change in the South Pacific
Students will consider the humanitarian impacts of climate change, improve their understanding of the effects on people’s lives, be introduced to the term "climate change refugee," and understand ways people can remain resilient and optimis...
Future of Work
Career Orientation in Schools: Challenges and Solutions
In this article, Heike Yürgüc examines career guidance challenges in the German education system, where a 2023 Bertelsmann Foundation survey found that only 37% of young people feel adequately supported. The article highlights four key strategies for...
Girls' Education
Making the Case for a Female-Friendly Toilet
A journal article on how the sanitation needs of girls and women are rarely accounted for during the design of toilet facilities, including needs related to their physiology, reproductive health processes, social norms, and vulnerability to violence.
Inclusive Education
Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning in Student-Centered Learning Environments
This chapter from the book Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments explores how student-centered learning environments use self-regulatory processes, highlighting the need for tools to support these processes and enhance metacognition.
Girls' Education
Achieving Gender Equality in Education: Don't Forget the Boys
This policy paper focuses on the less recognized effects of gender norms on boys’ schooling, particularly at secondary level and amongst those from the poorest families. It urges the need to address boys’ disadvantage and disengagement in education.
Girls' Education
Math Looks the Same in the Brains of Boys and Girls, Study Finds
An article debunking myths that boys and girls start out with different cognitive abilities in mathematics. The finding challenges the idea that more boys end up in STEM fields because they are inherently better at the sort of thinking they require.
Climate Education
GreenComp: The European sustainability competence framework
The “Sustainability Competence Framework” (GreenComp) is a conceptual tool defining the competences related to sustainability. It identifies a set of sustainability competences to feed into education programs to help learners develop knowledge, skill...