Call for proposals: Reimagining teachers’ work and teacher education for our futures

Posted on 10th October, 2025

UCL Press is delighted to share a call for papers for a forthcoming special series in the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning (IJDEGL): ‘Reimagining teachers’ work and teacher education for our futures – Global perspectives at the intersection of change, hope and crisis.’ Find out more in the full call.

Edited by Arto Kallioniemi, Hannele Niemi and Marianna Vivitsou, this series will explore how teacher education can respond to the profound challenges of our time—climate change, geopolitical instability, technological transformation—while fostering hope and agency for a sustainable future.

Building on UNESCO’s landmark report Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education (2021) and the ‘Reimagining Teachers and Teacher Education’ conference (June 2024), the series invites contributions that examine how education can repair injustices and transform learning ecosystems. The Editors welcome theoretical and empirical research addressing questions including:

• What do teaching/learning environments and ecosystems that support engagement with global issues look like?
• What pedagogical thinking best serves engagement with global issues in formal and informal teaching/learning environments and ecosystems?
• What methods and practices best support the purposes of global teaching and learning ecosystems?
• What pedagogical methods and practices best support the purposes of global teaching and learning ecosystems (e.g., pedagogies for relationality, pedagogies of love, liberation pedagogies, wild pedagogies, speculative pedagogies and so on).
• What principles and elements frame processes of co-creation? What are the roles of learners, communities, and other stakeholders in processes of co-creation?
• What is the new role of technology in teaching and learning about global issues?
• In what ways can inclusiveness and disability studies serve the purposes of teaching and learning about global issues? What approaches, methods and practices should be developed for inclusiveness and disability studies?
• What approaches would best serve the purposes of teaching and learning of global and local realities?

Key dates:

• Expressions of interest (300–500 word abstract): 17 October 2025
• Full paper submission: 9 January 2026

Submissions should include an abstract, up to six references, and a short biographical statement for each author. Please send expressions of interest to:

• Arto Kallioniemi (arto.j.kallioniemi@helsinki.fi)
• Hannele Niemi (hannele.niemi@helsinki.fi)
• Marianna Vivitsou (marianna.vivitsou@helsinki.fi)

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a global conversation on the future of education. For full details, visit the full call for proposals.