The database of bibliographic references in Global Education and Learning

The database of Global Education and Learning (GEL database) was established following several years of work on the development of the Global Education Digest, a bibliography of Global Education research. The first edition compiled literature published from 2015-2017, and was followed by editions in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022, 2023, 2024.

Over time, the Digest has expanded to include research in a growing number of languages, engaging an increasingly diverse community of researchers from around the world. In its most recent edition, eleven working groups carried out research in eleven different languages — English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Slovakian, and Spanish — with Simplified Chinese introduced for the first time.

This multilingual approach not only increases the visibility of the rich research on GE in the languages included, but also encourages cross-fertilisation and provides access for policymakers to more research. The inclusion of further languages has been made possible by the work of an extensive team of researchers from each language background. The production of the Digest was coordinated by the Development Education Research Centre (DERC) on behalf of Global Education Network Europe (GENE) in the framework of the ANGEL Network.

The Academic Network for Global Education

ANGEL, the Academic Network for Global Education and Learning was established in 2017 through close cooperation between Global Education Network of Europe (GENE) and the Development Education Research Centre (DERC) at the UCL Institute of Education, (UK) and with the University of Bamberg (Germany), the University of Oulu (Finland) and the UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education of the University of Bologna.

ANGEL aims to establish and reinforce relationships among scholars and academic institutions working in Global Education and related areas. It also wishes to create and strengthen links between researchers and policymakers to enable research-informed policymaking.

GEL Printed editions

1. Global Education Digest 2015 - 2017

2. Global Education Digest 2018

3. Global Education Digest 2020

4. Global Education Digest 2021

5. Global Education Digest 2022

6. Global Education Digest 2023

7. Global Education Digest 2024

The project is coordinated by Prof. Massimiliano Tarozzi

The GEL Database has been developed by the UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education assigned to the University of Bologna and Prof. Massimiliano as Chair.

Research Team Since its first edition the number of contributors who took part into the project is increasingly expanded representing different part of the world. Here below are listed all the person that contributed throughout the years.

• Dutch: Maayke Fenne De Vries (UCL Institute of Education), Bjorn Wansink & Sanne van Schijndel (Utrecht University).

• English: Natalya Hanley-Kan, Anielka Pieniazek, Frances Hunt, Douglas Bourn (UCL Institute of Education) and Giannis Efthymiou (Brunel University London / UCL Institute of Education), Cuicui Li (East China Normal University), Massimiliano Tarozzi (University of Bologna) Madeleine Le Bourdon (University of Leeds), Simon Brennan (Mary Immaculate College), QueAnh Dang & Luca Morini (Centre for Global Learning, Coventry University) with the support of Kester Muller and Nicole Blum (UCL Institute of Education).

• Finnish/ Suomi: Riikka Suhonen, Hanna; Posti-Ahokas, Tuija Kasa & Selja Koponen (University of Helsinki), Vihtori Kylänpää (University of Oulu), Oona Piipponen (City of Espoo), & Meri Häärä (Tampere University).

• French: Cécile Giraud (ENABEL), Virginie Vanhée (Ind. Researcher), Agathe Gillet (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) & Lise Trégloze (Université Rennes 2).

• German: Annette Scheunpflug, Susanne Timm & Anne-Katrin Holfelder (University of Bamberg), Rachel Bowden (TU Dresden).

• Italian Luca Vittori, Carla Inguaggiato, Raffaella Faggioli, Giorgia Bertolini & Martina Giurato (University of Bologna), Francesca Rapanà (University of Verona), Stefania Moser & Giulia Filippi (University of Bolzano), Laura Landi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Rita Locatelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore).

• Portuguese: Portugal: La Salete Coelho (University of Porto & Polytechnic of Viana do Castelo), Dalila Pinto Coelho (University of Porto), Andreia Reis (Universidade de Lisboa), Joana Costa (Sinergias ED), Mónica Lourenço (University of Coimbra), Francisco Parrança da Silva (University of Aveiro); Brasil: Silvia Elisabeth Moraes, Lara Söldon Braga de Holanda, Robson Campanerut da Silva & Caio Araújo (Universidade Federal do Ceará), Perpétua Socorro Lopes Sampaio (Francisco Jaguaribe State School) & Josefina Moraes Arraut (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande), Eduardo Moraes Arraut (Aeronautics Institute of Technology), Ludmila Freire (State University of Minas Gerais).

• Polish: Magdalena Kuleta-Hulboj (University of Warsaw) & Dobrawa Aleksiak (University of Warsaw / Maria Grzegorzewska University).

• Slovak:: Kristína Rankovová & Mária Hodorovská (Comenius University in Bratislava).

• Spanish: Spain: Adelina Calvo Salvador, Carlos Rodríguez Hoyos, Noemí Sainz de la Maza Ortiz, (University of Cantabria); Latin America: Silvia Espinal Meza (University of Bristol) & Diego Posada (University of Padova).

• Simplified Chinese: 汉语: Yuemiao Ma (University of Edinburgh), Ella (Jiayi) Zhang & Yichen Wang (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society).