Designed to meet the evolving needs of educational leaders around the world, IJHE features the only peer-reviewed venue exclusively for scholars of humane education. IJHE is an open-access journal covering research and applications in all aspects of humane education. Selected articles support the perspectives of various disciplines within educational and social sciences, human development, and prosocial literacy.

​The mission of IJHE is to serve as a vehicle for developing the theory and practice of humane education. IJHE strives to build a scholarly community, expand a collective knowledge base, and validate the quality of research within all sectors of humane education, including environmental ethics, human rights, and animal protection.

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