This volume offers a critical and reflective discussion of contemporary challenges for education relating to the climate, sustainability and post-factual truths in light of the concepts of knowledge and Bildung.

Introduction: Bildung, knowledge, and global challenges in education. Part I Bildung in light of sustainability, 1. Education and Bildung in the Anthropocene: Responding to COVID-19, 2. Bildung faces globalisation: theoretical reflections, empirical findings, and conceptual considerations for didactics, 3. Teaching for the Anthropocene: Bildung-oriented education for sustainable development in a subject-specific curriculum, 4. Bildung, diversity, and spaces in didactic practice, Part II Knowledge in light of post-factual truths, 5. Public schooling in a ‘post-factual’ society: a call for historically nuanced discussions, 6. Deliberative educational traditions and the post-truth society, 7. (Re-)arranging school knowledge for Bildung, or: school and curriculum against post-factualism, 8. Utterance theory and the validation of disciplinary knowledge in a ‘post-truth’ era, Part III The question of normativity, 9. The question of normativity: examining educational theories to advance deliberation on challenges of introducing societal problems into education