Sustainability, Equity, and Inclusion in Education: Interdisciplinary and Global Perspectives

This Topical Collection explores essential aspects of building a more equitable and inclusive society, ensuring every individual's right to a dignified, self-determined life without discrimination based on caste, creed, gender, culture, or nationality. It advocates for innovative pedagogical methods and evidence-based techniques in inclusive education.

Through diverse perspectives and insights from global experts, teacher educators, and researchers across countries may present their challenges, needs, and future directions through a cross-cultural lens.

The primary objective is to promote understanding and acceptance of diversity and inclusion globally, bridging gaps between countries and cultures. The Topical Collection is designed to be of use to a wide range of professionals, researchers, and teacher educators specializing in education, sociology, psychology, teacher education, health science, anthropology, and allied areas and subjects. It is also intended for policymakers and practitioners involved in educational policy and curriculum development, as well as advocates interested or specialized in global diversity, comparative cross-cultural studies inclusion, culture, equity, and social justice.

Main highlights of the proposed Topical Collection:

• Provides valuable research on diversity, inclusion, and Sustainability globally

• International and interdisciplinary in scope with leading global researchers presenting engaging studies from across countries globally

• Bridges the gap between countries and cultures and promotes a shared commitment to sustainability and humanity

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG4

Keywords: Sustainability, Inclusion, Education, Equity, Culture, Diversity, global perspectives, and interdisciplinary perspectives, across countries