Over 2020–23, TESF India commissioned 23 research projects that covered a diverse range of areas, methods, geographical locations, and communities. These projects addressed diverse research questions and points of intervention with a focus on the SDGs. They range from exploring the meanings and purposes of education from the perspective of diverse marginalised communities to analysing how social, gender, economic, environmental, spatial, and epistemic injustices are sustained. The projects also delve into examining intersecting urban vulnerabilities and exploring methods of wider public engagement and social learning using performing and fine arts, and interdisciplinary approaches. They also investigate how school, higher education, professional education, and teacher education, can be transformed to foster critical knowledge, capacities, and agency among teachers and students towards building a socially and environmentally sustainable and just society. This special issue of the journal on TESF India research brings together insights from six projects that cover various dimensions of these themes.
