Call for Submissions: Special Issue on "Education for Well-Being and Sustainability: The Role of 21st Century Skills for Informed, Responsible and Active Citizenship"

May 15, 2023 | MDPI
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Recently, UNESCO published their framework for education for sustainable development 2030 in the coming decade. This UNESCO roadmap emphasizes that education for sustainability should promote future generations’ physical, social, and emotional well-being, and highlights the importance of cognitive, social, and emotional skills, including: Thinking critically, analytically, and reflectively; learning collaboratively; solving problems; making decisions in the face of uncertainty; planning, and self-efficacy. These competencies are essential for the transformation of learners into conscientious global citizens, who can solve challenging and complex problems. Education can support people in acquiring these competencies, understanding and addressing the impacts of environmental crises on well-being (with an emphasis on sustainability and health), and empower them with the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes needed to become agents of change.

Due to the crucial role that education plays in promoting knowledge, awareness, skills, and actions toward health, environmental, and sustainability efforts, we suggest organizing a Special Issue focused on Education for Well-being and Sustainability: The Role of 21st Century Skills for Informed, Responsible and Active Citizenship. The goal of this Issue is to presents research papers that present the role of education for the development of informed, responsible, and active citizenship by providing opportunities for students to acquire 21st century skills in relation to health, environment, and sustainability.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome, as well as theoretical contributions. The authors are especially interested in studies describing research-based interventions focused on 21st century skills as well as their contribution to the development of active citizenship in relation to health, environment, and sustainability.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.