INFEWS/T3 RCN: Cultivating a National Collaborative for Research on Food, Energy, and Water Education (NC-FEW)

INFEWS/T3 RCN：建立食品、能源和水教育研究国家合作组织 (NC-FEW)

• 批准号: 2242276
• 负责人: Hannah Scherer
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2242276&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: INFEWS; T3; RCN; Cultivating; National

Societies today face global sustainability challenges related to meeting growing needs at the Food-Energy-Water-Nexus (FEW-Nexus). Conceptualizing complex Food, Energy, and Water (FEW) interactions as a nexus provides a holistic way to account for and balance tradeoffs within and across FEW components. In order to foster scientific literacy, meet workforce demands in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and food, agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences (FANH), there is a need for a sustained and systematic effort focused on education and education research grounded in the FEW-Nexus. The investigators will cultivate a new, transdisciplinary community, the National Collaborative for Research on Food, Energy, and Water Education (NC-FEW), which will serve as a hub of innovation for education research on FEW-Nexus educational programs at many levels (K-12, postsecondary, adults) and settings (formal and informal). The project will directly impact an estimated 600 educators and education researchers (postsecondary faculty, K-12 teachers, informal educators) from diverse institutions, as well as a variety of learners in an array of educational settings. This Research Coordination Network (RCN) will enhance educational programs grounded in the FEW-Nexus. The RCN will benefit society by improving STEM/FANH science literacy through educational innovation and capacity building around an important sustainability challenge. The greatest sustainability challenges of the 21st Century and beyond are defined by complex interactions between natural and human systems. The Food-Energy-Water-Nexus (FEW-Nexus) provides one framework for understanding such interactions. While the FEW-Nexus has received increasing attention in scientific research, educational programming and research on teaching and learning grounded in the FEW-Nexus has been underemphasized. There is a need to build upon past work to advance FEW-Nexus-based educational efforts in a transdisciplinary manner. This Research Coordination Network (RCN) will cultivate a community of educators and education researchers whose work focuses on teaching and learning about the FEW-Nexus. The National Collaborative for Research on Food, Energy, and Water Education (NC-FEW) will involve invited meetings, informational webinars, science communication, and development of instructional resources, as well as education and training opportunities for educators and education researchers. It will leverage existing efforts to help build capacity of a new transdisciplinary community of educators and scholars with a shared focus on educational research and programming. Through systemic capacity-building activities and collaboration, project activities will advance knowledge and practice about teaching and learning in the FEW-Nexus, including pedagogical practices, student learning, and evaluation and assessment, with a novel focus on the FEW-Nexus and mobilization of transdisciplinary expertise to catalyze education research around innovative educational programs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

当今的社会面临与满足食品能量 - 尼克斯（少数纳克斯）不断增长的需求有关的全球可持续性挑战。概念化复杂的食物，能量和水（很少的）相互作用作为Nexus提供了一种整体方式来计算和平衡少数组成部分的权衡。为了促进科学素养，满足科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）以及食品，农业，自然资源和人类科学（FANH）方面的劳动力需求，需要持续而系统地努力，专注于几个尼萨斯的教育和教育研究。研究人员将培养一个新的，跨学科的社区，国家食品，能源和水教育研究（NC-FEW）的国家合作培训，该合作将成为许多层次（K-12，专上，成人，成人）和设置（正式和信息）的少数尼克斯教育计划的创新枢纽。该项目将直接影响来自不同机构的600名教育和教育研究人员（大专院校，K-12教师，非正式教育者）以及一系列教育环境中的各种学习者。该研究协调网络（RCN）将增强基于少数尼克萨斯的教育计划。 RCN将通过围绕重要的可持续性挑战的教育创新和能力建设来改善STEM/FANH科学素养，从而使社会受益。 21世纪及以后的最大可持续性挑战是由自然和人类系统之间的复杂相互作用所定义的。食物能 - 水 - 尼克斯（几个尼萨斯）为理解这种相互作用提供了一个框架。尽管少数尼克斯在科学研究中受到了越来越多的关注，但基于几个尼克斯的教育计划和研究的教育计划和研究被低估了。有必要以跨学科的方式来基于过去的工作来促进少数基于尼克萨斯的教育工作。该研究协调网络（RCN）将培养一个由教育工作者和教育研究人员组成的社区，其工作着重于教学和学习少数尼克斯。全国食品，能源和水教育研究合作（NC-FEW）将涉及邀请会议，信息网络研讨会，科学沟通和教学资源的发展，以及教育工作者和教育研究人员的教育和培训机会。它将利用现有的努力，以帮助建立一个新的跨学科教育工作者和学者社区的能力，共同关注教育研究和编程。通过系统的能力建设活动和协作，项目活动将提高有关在少数纳克萨斯的教学和学习的知识和实践，包括教学实践，学生学习，学生学习以及评估和评估，并有一个新颖的重点是对跨学科专业知识的动员，并通过围绕Innovative Education进行了促进nsf的基础知识，并在跨学科专业知识中移动，并以nsf的方式进行了促进。智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。