The “Global Education” Group is made up of a group of researchers from different disciplinary areas (education, sociology, anthropology, mathematics, etc.), including teachers and doctoral students, whose research focuses on the relationship between education and globalization.

This group aims to implement theories and practices of learning and teaching that prioritize the construction of global democratic identities, while being articulated and thought through the forms of everyday experiences, relationships of belonging and local knowledge. With the combined contributions of the different social sciences, the group also aims to consolidate scientific analysis and public knowledge about the ways in which educational policies and practices have been developing on a global scale, through the growing flows of people, information and capital among the different countries and regions of the world. In this way, the group’s focus lies in deepening the study of the global dynamics of domination and exclusion that are reproduced, accentuated and legitimized through education and training systems, as well as promoting the capacity of education and training to effectively constitute a space for inclusion, citizenship and the valuing of diversity on a global scale, paying particular attention to Portuguese-speaking countries. Thus the work of this group is fundamental to the scientific construction of CEG, enabling close cooperation with other research groups.

This group has been developing research projects and funding applications in partnership with other national and international institutions. It has also organized seminars and an international symposium, as well as collaborating on various publications, focusing on online formats, in which the Universidade Aberta has extensive experience and which have made it possible to foster international collaboration, especially with teachers from Portuguese-speaking countries.