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Frontiers in Education is a multidisciplinary journal that explores research-based approaches to education for human development. It focuses on the global challenges and opportunities education faces, ultimately aiming to improve educational outcomes.

The following Research Topics are led by experts in their field and contribute to the scientific understanding of education. These Research topics are published in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Education, as open access articles.

Research Topics

Frontiers' Research Topics are peer-reviewed article collections around cutting-edge research themes.
Learn more about how Research topics work.

UC Berkeley Sather Tower with Sunrays

Future Places of Learning and Higher Education: a Humanistic Perspective.

This Research Topic explores the implications of recent developments for the future of learning environments within higher education.

Vibrant side view portrait of male teacher helping student using computer in college classroom, copy space

Digital Learning Innovations: Trends Emerging Scenario, Challenges and Opportunities

This Research Topic explores AI-driven personalized learning in higher education, focusing on technological innovation, ethical concerns, accessibility, global equity, and implementation challenges shaping the future of teaching, learning, and evaluation.

Adult student using laptop computer at a university lecture

Transforming Higher Education: Post-Pandemic Strategies for Inclusive and Effective Learning

This Research Topic explores the various ways in which the pandemic has compelled educators and researchers to challenge traditional notions of teaching and learning in university settings.

Portrait of young woman standing by whiteboard while giving presentation during medical seminar in college, copy space

Empowering Local Leadership in Academic Biomedical Research and Education: Challenges, Inequalities and Models for Inclusive Collaboration

This Research Topic explores equity in global health research leadership, highlighting inclusive models, challenges, and successes in international collaborations. It centers underrepresented voices and promotes sustainable, locally led partnerships.

Young Asian teacher giving boy high five in school, success, achievement, happiness. Asia school boy with young woman in class.

The Role of Teacher Emotion in Education

This Research Topic aims explores the emotional experiences of teachers, asserting that understanding and integrating these into educational practices can lead to more effective and humane reforms.

College campus in the spring

21st Century Honors Program: Relevance, Challenges, and Opportunities in Modern Society Higher Education

This Research Topic explores all aspects of honors education, with a focus on the challenges and solutions faced by honors colleges and programs in institutions with significant underrepresented minority populations.

Down-syndrome man attending education class in community center, inclusivity of disabled person.

Cultural and Contextual Challenges in the Inclusion of Children with Developmental Disorders

This Research Topic showcases the variety of inclusion strategies employed globally, emphasizing innovations from countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania.

Group of multi racial students studying sit at table in university library, gathered together talking, discuss new collaborative task, prepare for exams. Education, develop, gain new knowledge concept

Advancing Multilingual Education: Equity, Inclusion, and Wellbeing

This Research Topic focuses on the understanding of multilingual education within the Global South by presenting evidence-based research that promotes equity, inclusion, and wellbeing.

Elementary School Class: Teacher Uses Interactive Digital Whiteboard, Explains Lesson to Diverse Group of Smart Children. Kids getting Modern Education, Learn Computer Science, Software Programming

Redefining Learning in the Digital Age: Pedagogical Strategies and Outcomes

The focus of this Research Topic covers a spectrum of educational dynamics, emphasizing the interplay between technology and pedagogy.

The public library of Stuttgart.

Aligning Architectural Design with Pedagogical Practice: Towards a Shared Language for Educational Spaces

This Research Topic explores how educators and architects can co-develop learning spaces that support evolving pedagogies, wellbeing, and collaboration, focusing on shared language, spatial impact on teaching, and design practices that bridge both fields.

Side view portrait of modern IT developer using computer in office while working on VR games and software, copy space

Artificial Intelligence in Educational and Business Ecosystems: Convergent Perspectives on Agency, Ethics, and Transformation

This Research Topic explores the evolving role of AI in education, focusing on human-AI interactions, cognition, pedagogy, ethics, and policy.

Teamwork. Working in multiethnic group of students. teacher study foreign languages together in class. Studing with laptop.

Issues, Transformations, and Strategies in World Language Teaching and Learning: Administration, Pedagogy, Technology, and Learning Outcomes

This Research Topic explores current and emerging administrative, pedagogical, technological, and learning issues in world language education that should be addressed with urgency.

Multi-ethnic team of young people doing high five celebrating success in office, copy space

Strengthening Equity in and through Research Collaborations in Education

This Research Topic explores equity in and through educational collaborations in different regions across the globe, focusing on successful strategies and notable failures with respect to both process and outcomes.

Conference Training Planning Learning Coaching Business Concept

University Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities

This Research Topic explores the role of universities in advancing sustainability through education, research, innovation, and community impact, with a focus on SDG 4.

Student paying attention to lecture in classroom. Woman studying at the college classroom.

Futures that Redefine Education: Mental Health Response, AI Integration, and Narrative Literacy

This Research Topic explores the pivotal elements that will define the future of education by focusing on the synergies and challenges at the intersections of mental health, AI utilization, and the cultivation of narrative literacy.

Engineers work with medical robotic equipment

Applying Lean Six Sigma and Industry 4.0 Concepts to Enhance Higher Education

This Research Topic explores how tools like Lean Six Sigma, Industry 4.0, and Design Thinking can improve higher education by enhancing efficiency, innovation, and student outcomes through cross-sector methodologies and digital transformation.

Caucasian kid studying online at home and using laptop. Distance or remote learning for child. Pretty stylish schoolgirl studying homework math during coronavirus covid-19 quarantine and social

Long-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health and Well-Being in Education: Underlying Mechanisms and Intervention Strategies

This Research Topic explores the psychological long-term impact of the pandemic within educational settings.

Male teacher helps a young boy with computer-based learning in a classroom setting. Child tutor providing a lesson in an elementary school, with a focus on coding and basic digital literacy.

Advancing Literacy Rights: Teachers' Roles in Policy Advocacy in Multilingual Settings

This Research Topic explores the significant role of educators as proactive advocates for literacy rights within challenging contexts.

Shot of a speech therapist during a session with a little boy

Speech Perception and Language Development in Individuals with Special Educational Needs

This Research Topic explores the various dimensions of speech perception and language development in individuals with SEN.

UC Berkeley Sather Tower with Sunrays

Future Places of Learning and Higher Education: a Humanistic Perspective.

This Research Topic explores the implications of recent developments for the future of learning environments within higher education.

Vibrant side view portrait of male teacher helping student using computer in college classroom, copy space

Digital Learning Innovations: Trends Emerging Scenario, Challenges and Opportunities

This Research Topic explores AI-driven personalized learning in higher education, focusing on technological innovation, ethical concerns, accessibility, global equity, and implementation challenges shaping the future of teaching, learning, and evaluation.

Adult student using laptop computer at a university lecture

Transforming Higher Education: Post-Pandemic Strategies for Inclusive and Effective Learning

This Research Topic explores the various ways in which the pandemic has compelled educators and researchers to challenge traditional notions of teaching and learning in university settings.

Portrait of young woman standing by whiteboard while giving presentation during medical seminar in college, copy space

Empowering Local Leadership in Academic Biomedical Research and Education: Challenges, Inequalities and Models for Inclusive Collaboration

This Research Topic explores equity in global health research leadership, highlighting inclusive models, challenges, and successes in international collaborations. It centers underrepresented voices and promotes sustainable, locally led partnerships.

Young Asian teacher giving boy high five in school, success, achievement, happiness. Asia school boy with young woman in class.

The Role of Teacher Emotion in Education

This Research Topic aims explores the emotional experiences of teachers, asserting that understanding and integrating these into educational practices can lead to more effective and humane reforms.

College campus in the spring

21st Century Honors Program: Relevance, Challenges, and Opportunities in Modern Society Higher Education

This Research Topic explores all aspects of honors education, with a focus on the challenges and solutions faced by honors colleges and programs in institutions with significant underrepresented minority populations.

Down-syndrome man attending education class in community center, inclusivity of disabled person.

Cultural and Contextual Challenges in the Inclusion of Children with Developmental Disorders

This Research Topic showcases the variety of inclusion strategies employed globally, emphasizing innovations from countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania.

Group of multi racial students studying sit at table in university library, gathered together talking, discuss new collaborative task, prepare for exams. Education, develop, gain new knowledge concept

Advancing Multilingual Education: Equity, Inclusion, and Wellbeing

This Research Topic focuses on the understanding of multilingual education within the Global South by presenting evidence-based research that promotes equity, inclusion, and wellbeing.

Elementary School Class: Teacher Uses Interactive Digital Whiteboard, Explains Lesson to Diverse Group of Smart Children. Kids getting Modern Education, Learn Computer Science, Software Programming

Redefining Learning in the Digital Age: Pedagogical Strategies and Outcomes

The focus of this Research Topic covers a spectrum of educational dynamics, emphasizing the interplay between technology and pedagogy.

The public library of Stuttgart.

Aligning Architectural Design with Pedagogical Practice: Towards a Shared Language for Educational Spaces

This Research Topic explores how educators and architects can co-develop learning spaces that support evolving pedagogies, wellbeing, and collaboration, focusing on shared language, spatial impact on teaching, and design practices that bridge both fields.

Side view portrait of modern IT developer using computer in office while working on VR games and software, copy space

Artificial Intelligence in Educational and Business Ecosystems: Convergent Perspectives on Agency, Ethics, and Transformation

This Research Topic explores the evolving role of AI in education, focusing on human-AI interactions, cognition, pedagogy, ethics, and policy.

Teamwork. Working in multiethnic group of students. teacher study foreign languages together in class. Studing with laptop.

Issues, Transformations, and Strategies in World Language Teaching and Learning: Administration, Pedagogy, Technology, and Learning Outcomes

This Research Topic explores current and emerging administrative, pedagogical, technological, and learning issues in world language education that should be addressed with urgency.

Multi-ethnic team of young people doing high five celebrating success in office, copy space

Strengthening Equity in and through Research Collaborations in Education

This Research Topic explores equity in and through educational collaborations in different regions across the globe, focusing on successful strategies and notable failures with respect to both process and outcomes.

Conference Training Planning Learning Coaching Business Concept

University Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities

This Research Topic explores the role of universities in advancing sustainability through education, research, innovation, and community impact, with a focus on SDG 4.

Student paying attention to lecture in classroom. Woman studying at the college classroom.

Futures that Redefine Education: Mental Health Response, AI Integration, and Narrative Literacy

This Research Topic explores the pivotal elements that will define the future of education by focusing on the synergies and challenges at the intersections of mental health, AI utilization, and the cultivation of narrative literacy.

Engineers work with medical robotic equipment

Applying Lean Six Sigma and Industry 4.0 Concepts to Enhance Higher Education

This Research Topic explores how tools like Lean Six Sigma, Industry 4.0, and Design Thinking can improve higher education by enhancing efficiency, innovation, and student outcomes through cross-sector methodologies and digital transformation.

Caucasian kid studying online at home and using laptop. Distance or remote learning for child. Pretty stylish schoolgirl studying homework math during coronavirus covid-19 quarantine and social

Long-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health and Well-Being in Education: Underlying Mechanisms and Intervention Strategies

This Research Topic explores the psychological long-term impact of the pandemic within educational settings.

Male teacher helps a young boy with computer-based learning in a classroom setting. Child tutor providing a lesson in an elementary school, with a focus on coding and basic digital literacy.

Advancing Literacy Rights: Teachers' Roles in Policy Advocacy in Multilingual Settings

This Research Topic explores the significant role of educators as proactive advocates for literacy rights within challenging contexts.

Shot of a speech therapist during a session with a little boy

Speech Perception and Language Development in Individuals with Special Educational Needs

This Research Topic explores the various dimensions of speech perception and language development in individuals with SEN.