Following Paulo Freire and his concept of pedagogy of hope, this open access book explores the educational role of hope as an approach to learning about global issues in different areas of the world. Climate change, racism, and the COVID-19 pandemic have shown more than ever the need for a global shift in education policy and practice. This book provides a conceptual framework of global education and learning and the role it can play in addressing these social and environmental challenges. Written by scholars based in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Ghana, India, Italy, Portugal South Africa, Spain, the UK and the USA, the book addresses a range of local and global issues from global citizenship education in Latin America to training teachers in global education.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Douglas Bourn is Professor of Development Education and Director of Development Education Research Centre at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He is the editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Education and Learning (2020) and Education for Social Change (2022), both published by Bloomsbury.

Massimiliano Tarozzi is UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education and Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he is Founding Director of the International Research Centre on Global Citizenship Education. He is co-author, with Carlos Alberto Torres, of Global Citizenship Education and the Crises of Multiculturalism (2016) and Grounded Theory (2020), both published by Bloomsbury.