Call for Manuscripts - 2025 Special Issue on "Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Lessons in Education"

CICE 2025 Special Issue - Call for Papers

Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Lessons in Education

Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE) is pleased to announce its call for papers for the 2025 Special Issue on ‘Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Lessons in Education.’ In 2015, 196 Parties of the United Nations Climate Change Conference adopted the Paris Agreement. The road to the 10th anniversary of this international treaty marks an occasion for interdisciplinary global reflection on efforts toward preventing, adapting, and mitigating climate change effects. What has been undertaken in education and what could be done differently to protect Mother Earth? We invite authors in Comparative and International Education (CIE) and other fields to examine this inquiry creatively, recognizing that climate change does not exist in isolation. This Special Issue is an opportunity to explore intersections between conflict and climate change with an emphasis on education, as well as a chance to dive deeper into educational research about how climate change can interrelate with migration.

The 2025 Special Issue raises manifold questions including: What is the relationship between education and climate change? What are the direct and indirect links between internal or international conflicts with environmental damage, and how do these intersections relate to education? To what extent do migration policies and projects in education account for the impacts of climate change on the lives of internally displaced persons, refugees, and migrants? What perspectives do Indigenous epistemologies bring to education considering climate change, migration, and conflict at policy, curriculum, and pedagogy levels? How is environmental justice interconnected with educational justice? While not exhaustive, these questions can serve as entry points for authors worldwide to reflect on pressing educational challenges amid climate change effects, ongoing conflicts, violence, and anti-immigrant discourse.

In the process of addressing these topics, we encourage authors to explore critical perspectives on education and discuss alternatives to existing models that may perpetuate hierarchies of knowledge in society. An example of a critical view on education is the concept of “subtractive schooling.” Schools can take away the social capital and cultural knowledge of students of different backgrounds to assimilate them into the dominant culture. As an alternative, “authentic caring pedagogies” celebrate diversity, respect cultures, and perceive these students as equals. CICE welcomes manuscripts that critically examine lessons in education concerning climate change, migration, and conflict at different scales (personal, local, regional, and global).

We invite contributions from teachers, administrators, professors, graduate students, policymakers, and education specialists from government, non-governmental organizations, and academia. The call is open for papers, article responses, and book reviews in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Please read the submission guidelines here.

Deadline: January 31, 2025.

For questions, please contact us at cice@tc.columbia.edu.