This contributed volume explores issues surrounding planetary awareness and its role in the Anthropocene, tackling interdisciplinary themes. The volume proposes a reflection on the way in which the natural, cultural and societal dimensions are intertwined. Through an approach that blends the human, social and natural sciences, it responds to the urgent need to rethink our relationship with the world at a time marked by global ecological and social crises. The book connects scientific knowledge with concrete cultural and social practices. The innovative nature of the book is reflected in its adoption of new methodological perspectives, such as the use of postcolonial and critical concepts to rethink the relationship between the human and the non-human. The authors also incorporate transformative approaches, such as critical imagination, to explore solutions to the challenges posed by the Anthropocene. From a scientific point of view, the book is based on solid, interdisciplinary research. The book emphasizes how global awareness is a central issue in education, in order to reinvent frameworks for collective and individual action. By linking these reflections to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, it offers an operational framework for transforming planetary ideals into concrete policies.

Juliane Engel is the Founding Director for Transfer of the Center for Critical Computational Studies | C3S at Goethe University Frankfurt. The newly founded center's mission is to establish and activate Critical Computational Literacy (CCL) as a transformative framework. C3S empowers students, citizens, and communities to thoughtfully relate and engage with the algorithmic and data-driven technologies in post digital times. As a Professor of Education at Goethe University, Juliane Engel is focusing on schools and cultural transformation. In systematic and empirical studies, her work examines educational processes and learning considered in the context of dynamics of social transformation, such as processes of cultural pluralization and (post-)digitality, highlighting asymmetries of power. This analysis focuses on the materiality and mediality of processes of subjectification as well as on new forms of agency in post digital realities. She is chair of the Commission for Qualitative Educational and Biographical Research of the German Society for Educational Science (QBBF), where she works on advancing the methodological development of digitized research. She is (co-)founder of an international research group on “becoming planetary” and co-editor of the journal Education in the Anthropocene: Sustainability, Transformation, Cultures. Since 2023, she is member of the Scientific Committee of the book series "Anthropocene – Humanities and Social Sciences".

Christoph Wulf is Professor of Anthropology and Education and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology, the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB, 1999–2012) ‘Cultures of Performance’, the Cluster of Excellence (2007–2012), ‘Languages of Emotion’ and the Graduate School ‘InterArts’ (2006–2015) at the Freie Universität Berlin. His books have been translated into 20 languages. For his research in anthropology and anthropology of education, he received the title professor honoris causafrom the University of Bucharest. He is Vice-President of the German Commission for UNESCO. Major research areas:historical and cultural anthropology, educational anthropology, imagination, inter-cultural communication, mimesis, aesthetics, epistemology and Anthropocene. Research stays and invited professorships have included the following locations, among others: Stanford, Tokyo, Kyoto, Beijing, Shanghai, Mysore, Delhi, Paris, Lille, Modena, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Copenhagen, London, Vienna, Rome, Lisbon, Basel, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan and Sao Paulo.