AccelNet-Design: Global Futures Oriented Research Collective on Education for Sustainability (G-FORCES)

气候危机的多面性和紧迫性要求采取跨学科和协作的方法来改变教育--从而刺激文化转变--朝着更可持续的全球未来发展。这一挑战不能通过仅仅专注于技术解决方案的研究来解决，而是需要对关于知识、教育和社会变革的潜在假设进行批判性的询问。面向未来的全球可持续发展教育研究集体(G-FORCES)旨在将来自自然科学、社会科学和人文科学的面向可持续发展的国际研究网络聚集在一起，重新阐述全球可持续发展教育在正规和非正规终身学习环境中的作用。G-FORCES的目标不仅是改善，而且从根本上重塑全球网络中教育与可持续发展研究之间的关系，以有效整合不同的知识生态系统，弥合研究与实践之间的鸿沟，并将教育放在促进地球福祉和生态正义的优先位置。G-FORCES是一个充满活力的多团队合作，由来自10个不同的、全球领先的研究网络的代表组成，这些网络共同致力于调动教育的力量促进全球可持续发展。G-ForCES利用能够跨网络进行结构化但强有力的协作的设计方法，在现有研究社区之间建立共同的愿景和战略业务联系，参与跨学科融合研究，在统一框架下推进可持续发展教育和气候扫盲--包括科学、能源、媒体和生态扫盲--的全面愿景。此外，它的目的是最大限度地发挥研究对教育政策和实践的影响，创建持久的从地方到全球的学术和行动网络，并解决目前限制综合跨学科气候研究的体制障碍和结构限制，为职业生涯早期的学者和来自历史上被边缘化的人口，特别是来自全球南方的人创造新的包容性研究领导能力的机会。项目活动将从确定网络之间的差距、联系和协同作用的绘图工作开始，包括年度研究会议，以确定潜在趋同研究的议程；一系列虚拟共同设计讲习班，以制定合作的运作机制；以及持续开展的知识动员活动，以促使相关利益攸关方促进教育系统的变革，促进全球可持续发展。除了产生创新的研究协同效应并为不同研究网络之间的知识共享创造新的空间外，G-ForCES还加强了世界领先学者和教育从业者之间在制定变革方面的联系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The multifaceted nature and urgency of the climate crisis require interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to transform education — and consequently stimulate cultural shifts — toward more sustainable global futures. This challenge cannot be solved through research solely focused on technical solutions, but requires a critical interrogation of underlying assumptions about knowledge, education, and social change. The Global Futures Oriented Research Collective on Education for Sustainability (G-FORCES) aims to bring together international sustainability-oriented research networks from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities to rearticulate the role of education for planetary sustainability in formal and non-formal lifelong learning settings. G-FORCES aims not merely to improve, but to fundamentally reshape the relationship between education and sustainability research across global networks in ways that effectively integrate different knowledge ecosystems, bridge the research-practice divide, and prioritize education for planetary wellbeing and ecological justice. G-FORCES is a dynamic, multi-team collaboration across representatives from 10 diverse, globally leading research networks that share a common commitment to mobilize the power of education for planetary sustainability. Leveraging design approaches that enable structured but robust collaboration across networks, G-FORCES establishes a shared vision and strategic operational links across established research communities to engage in transdisciplinary convergence research that advances a comprehensive vision of sustainability education and climate literacy – encompassing scientific, energy, media, and ecological literacy – under a unified framework. Furthermore, it aims to maximize the impact of research on education policy and practice, create enduring local-to-global networks of scholarship and action, and address institutional barriers and structural limitations that presently limit integrated interdisciplinary climate research by creating new opportunities for inclusive research leadership for early-career scholars and from historically marginalized populations, particularly from the global South. Starting with a mapping exercise to identify gaps, connections, and synergies between networks, project activities will include annual research assemblies to set agendas for potential convergence research; a series of virtual co-design workshops to develop operational mechanisms for collaboration; and ongoing knowledge mobilization activities to engage relevant stakeholders to promote the transformation of educational systems for planetary sustainability. In addition to generating innovative research synergies and creating new spaces for sharing knowledge across different research networks, G-FORCES enhances connectivity among the world's leading scholars and education practitioners in enacting change.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.