This site is hosted by the University of Jyväskylä GloseNet team. GloseNet is a home for the Education for Emergencies and Research Project and the Critical Approaches to Sustainability, Global Education and Development Research Group. GloseNet organizes annual SDG4 Seminars. In addition, we are also coordinating a pilot course on Antiracism in Education between JyU EDUMA/DEICO international master's degree programs and the University of Helsinki Changing Education master's degree program. The objective is to bring together scholars around the world and to enhance the learning and research on critical approaches to sustainability, global education, and democracy. The first research project under the network is the GINTL-funded Education for Emergencies (E4E). Education for Emergencies refers to the long-term and current conflicts taking place in the world, and the role of education in responding to these challenges and acting toward radical social change, whether it is a climate crisis, racism, conflicts, or the long-term issues of inequalities in education and the wider social context, in local and global discourses. 

The main aim of the site is to disseminate critical approaches to education and introduce learning resources and new types of collaboration. We welcome you also to interact with our interdisciplinary Critical Approaches to Global Education, Sustainability and Development research group as well as the Global and Sustainable Education thesis group. You may find here research articles, blog writings, lectures, and links in a wide variety of themes related to global and sustainable education and learning, international development, education in the global South, and their intersections. The “critical approaches” refer to a wide variety of theoretical perspectives such as Freire’s legacy of critical pedagogy, Foucauldian analysis of power, postcolonial and decolonial approaches, extractivism, political economy, and post-humanistic approaches, to mention a few.  

We are adding content and improving these pages and we welcome new ideas!