Global Education, Development Cooperation and Education in Emergency Situations: trends, challenges and alternatives

Faced with a world with common global challenges such as poverty, conflicts and widespread violence, forced migration, the climate crisis and political extremism, education has always assumed a fundamental place in society. We live in a world that needs cooperation. According to the United Nations initiative “Education Cannot Wait” (https://www.educationcannotwait.org/), 84 million children and adolescents will be out of school and 300 million will lack basic literacy and numeracy skills. Compliance with the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4 dedicated to education is seriously compromised if urgent measures are not taken! For everyone, there is an urgent need to understand the world's problems, their causes, consequences and multiple approaches.

This thematic issue of Saber & Educar is an advocacy instrument in favor of cooperation in education and, with particular focus, in contexts of emergencies and prolonged crises. As Harber, 2014, Education and International Development – theory, practice and Issues, reminds us, despite its critics, it is not likely that international cooperation will be abandoned in the near future: what is changing is its scope of application, modalities and priorities, as the political and economic contexts that are shaping it are also changing. This edition of the journal focuses on the intersection of the three areas of study that were chosen within the framework of the Cooperation Policy of the Escola Superior de Educação de Paula Frassinetti - Education for Development and Global Citizenship, Cooperation in the area of Education and Education in Emergency Situations - and how they relate, integrate and interact in formal and non-formal contexts, taking into account the great challenges of the right to education, in countries of the Global South and with special relevance to contexts of the Community of Countries of Portuguese Official Language (CPLP).

This thematic issue welcomes contributions from academics, educators, actors and cooperation agents interested in reflecting on and deepening education and cooperation as social justice. Works in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish will be considered on the following topics:

¾ Relationship between education, cooperation and development in light of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda;

¾ Education cooperation practices in development and emergency contexts, such as the presentation, analysis and results of cooperation and education projects and programs in emergency situations;

¾ The field of education in emergencies and the challenges of preparing educational responses in contexts of emergencies and prolonged crises, with special relevance for displaced populations and refugees;

¾ Analysis of the triple nexus in education projects and programs: Emergency, Development and Peacebuilding (EDP);

¾ Coherence of development cooperation policies, focusing on education and training;

¾ Global Education Perspectives and their relevance for advocacy in favor of the Education for Sustainable Development agenda (SDG 4, Target 4.7).

Organization:  Júlio G. Santos e Ana Poças, Centre for Global Education and Cooperation Higher Education School Paula Frassinetti (Portugal).