Associate Director, Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA
Executive Editor, Teaching in Higher Education (TiHE) journal (2021-4)
Book Series Editor, Freire in Focus, Bloomsbury (with Carlos Alberto Torres, UCLA)
Chief Editor, Encyclopedia of Environmental Education, Bloomsbury (with Karen Malone, Swinburne University of Technology)
International Advisory Committee Member, UNESCO Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education, UCLA
Greg William Misiaszek, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor at Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Education after being an Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education. He holds the position of Associate Director at the Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA. He is the Chief Editor of the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Environmental Education; Executive Editor of the Teaching in Higher Education journal, and Bloomsbury Book Series Editor of Freire In Focus (with Carlos Alberto Torres). His work focuses on ecopedagogy, comparative/international studies, adult/higher education, socio-environmental justice, planetary sustainability, Freirean scholarship, anti-anthropocentrism, migration, technologies, (eco)linguistics, and Indigenous/Southern epistemological diversity through (post)critical theories of globalizations, citizenships, race, gender, and postdigitalism, among others. His latest solo-authored books include Ecopedagogy and the Global Environmental Citizen: Critical Issues, Trends, Challenges and Possibilities (2025, Routledge) and Freire and Environmentalism: Ecopedagogy (2023, Bloomsbury). His latest edited books include the Palgrave Handbook on Critical Theories (Springer, 2023, with Abdi) and Handbook of Ecological Civilization (2025, with Peters, Green & Zhu). He has four solo-authored books, six edited books, and over 70 other publications. Dr. Misiaszek holds a Ph.D. from UCLA in Comparative Education, an M.S. in education (University of Southern California (USC)), and a B.S. in Environmental Studies (USC).
Teaching and Research Interests
- Ecopedagogy and critical analysis of environmental pedagogies (e.g., Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD))
- Citizenship, globalization and education (models of global citizenship education (GCE) and planetary citizenship)
- Paulo Freire’s pedagogy and philosophy
- Critical theories and educational practices and research methodologies for transformational change
- Comparative/international education
- Sociology of Education
- Critical analysis and construction of educational technologies
- Development and education
- Decolonization of education
- k/Knowledges, s/Science, and t/Technologies and education
- Epistemologies of the South and education