Intercultural Education and Promotion of Sustainability, as an Improvement in Educational Quality, with a Focus on Technological Advancement

Dear Colleagues,

In our increasingly globalized society, intercultural and traditional activities are becoming more and more intertwined on a daily basis. In today’s Western society, which has recently undergone major changes, the widespread use of information and communication technology and its increased use among adolescents has led to a considerable increase in different uses, both correct and incorrect, within the information society.

The promotion of the use of technology as an ally in education has proliferated in recent decades and has been widely implemented in the last year, generated in part by the coronavirus disease SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) (UNESCO COVID-19). The literature shows that a large part of the population is not educated in current issues related to sustainable development, and that this is essential (Gutiérrez, Calvo and Benayas, 2006) for the development of citizens and professionals who are scientifically competent to deal with environmental threats to sustainability.

Quality, today, is generally considered a somewhat hollow term that requires a definition which is consistent with other concepts such as continuous improvement, excellence in performance, and user satisfaction, among others (Casanova, 2012), the latter being specifically one of the quality indicators to which society of the 21st century is committed in different fields (Caballero, 2001), as well as curricular sustainability, in order to address social, cultural, economic, and environmental problems from a sustainable approach, in all aspects of education and learning (UNESCO, 2016). That is why a broad knowledge of the world in which we develop, focused on intercultural education and promoting sustainability as an improvement in educational quality, with a focus on technological progress, is currently the axis of development of the future citizenship that will shape our society.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Sustainability.

Dr. María del Carmen Olmos-Gómez
Dr. Mónica Luque Suárez
Dr. Jesús Manuel Cuevas Rincón
Guest Editors

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• intercultural education
• sustainability
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• technological advancement
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