Inclusive and equitable education and lifelong learning
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission deadline
The provision of quality education and lifelong learning opportunities is crucial to ensuring a full and productive life to all individuals. Despite considerable progress in school enrolment, profound challenges remain to achieving inclusive and equitable quality education for young people and adults alike. This issue is particularly acute for those in the most deprived communities (e.g. in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia) and in vulnerable or marginalised populations (e.g. those with disabilities, indigenous peoples, refugees or the rural poor). Beyond primary and secondary education, there is also a pressing need to increase the number of appropriately skilled young people and adults so as to maximise employment, eliminate gender and wealth disparities, create more sustainable societies, and to stimulate entrepreneurship.
This interdisciplinary Collection invites research that reflects on all aspects of the provision of quality education and training — from pre-school education through to lifelong learning and upskilling.
Contributions are welcomed from different disciplinary vantage points and on a wide range of themes, including but not limited to:
- Pre-primary education
- Primary and secondary education
- Technical, vocational and higher education
- Discrimination and inequalities in education
- Education and entrepreneurship
- Education for sustainable development and global citizenship
- Skills training and lifelong learning
- Literacy and numeracy
- Schooling facilities and environments
- Scholarships and scholarship programmes
- Teacher training – innovations and fresh perspectives
- Covid-19 and its effect on educational provision and attainment
- Government-level education policy
- Role of the private sector, NGOs and other organisations in the provision of educational tools and facilities
Editors
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Cosme J. Gómez Carrasco
University of Murcia, Spain
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Deni Mazrekaj
Utrecht University, Netherlands
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Jairo Rodríguez-Medina
University of Valladolid, Spain
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Meltem Ince Yenilmez
Izmir Democracy University, Turkey
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Xiaodong Zhang
Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
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Lihong Zhou
Wuhan University, China
The Collection will publish original research Articles, Reviews and Comments (full details on content types can be found here). Papers will be published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications as soon as they are accepted and then collected together and promoted on the Collection homepage. All Guest Edited Collections are associated with a call for papers and are managed by one or more of our Editorial Board Members and the journal's Editors.
This Collection welcomes submissions from all authors – and not by invitation only – on the condition that the manuscripts fall within the scope of the Collection and of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications more generally. See our editorial process page for more details.
All submissions are subject to the same peer review process and editorial standards as regular Humanities & Social Sciences Communications Articles, including the journal’s policy on competing interests. The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions, which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests. See our journal policies and submission guidelines for more details.
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