Workshop: Second National Energy Education Summit: Building a Community for Interdisciplinary Teaching About Energy for a Sustainable Future

1636996Blockstein能源/环境教育是一个新兴领域，许多学科的大学教职员工和预科教师社区正在通过许多学术部门的广泛课程和学位授予计划，在社会背景下教授能源和环境。然而，这些教育工作者分布在地理上，没有联系，围绕教学能量的问题聚集在一起的机会有限。这个研讨会发展和推进了合作伙伴关系，重点是将世界过渡到一个不断改进的新能源系统。能源教育的新兴元领域正处于初级阶段。研讨会将是：1.为K-12、高等教育和非正规教育领域的能源教育工作者举办一个论坛，以分享最佳做法并发展新的伙伴关系。2.让能源、环境和STEM教育工作者有机会与来自工商界、政府和民间社会的领导人汇聚一堂，提高能源教育的知名度和扩大其有效性。3.旨在促进能源教育方面的新倡议和伙伴关系的平台。4.在课堂一级(内容、课程和教学)和方案一级(学位和副学位课程)处理问题的舞台。研讨会将有助于推动一个定义广泛的跨学科能源教育领域，其中将包括科学、技术、政治经济学、历史、伦理、环境和文化研究的要素。它将加强STEM教育的能源内容和背景，并推进跨学科的能源教育，以激励更多多样化的学生考虑在能源部门工作和职业，这是美国劳动力所需的一个领域。更广泛地整合能源教育将扩大STEM教育的相关性和实用性，并与能源扫盲研究建立重要联系，并促进STEM教育、环境教育和可持续发展教育之间的融合。

1636996BlocksteinEnergy/Environment Education is an emerging field and the community of university faculty members and pre-college teachers across many disciplines are teaching about energy and environment in a societal context through a broad range of courses and degree-granting programs in many academic departments. However, these educators are geographically distributed, disconnected and have limited opportunities to come together around the issue of teaching energy. This workshop develops and advances partnerships that focus on transitioning the world to a new constantly improving energy systems.The emerging meta-field of energy education is in its infancy. The workshop will be: 1. A forum for energy educators in K-12, higher education, and informal education to share best practices and develop new partnerships. 2. An opportunity for energy, environmental and STEM educators to gather with leaders from business, industry, government and civil society to raise the profile and expand the effectiveness of energy education. 3. A platform designed to catalyze new initiatives and partnerships in energy education. 4. An arena to address issues at both the classroom level (content, curriculum and pedagogy) and at the programmatic level (degree and sub-degree programs). The workshop will help advance a broadly-defined, interdisciplinary field of energy education that will include elements of science, technology, political economy, history, ethics, environmental, and cultural studies. It will strengthen the energy content and context for STEM education and advance interdisciplinary energy education to inspire a greater diversity of students to consider jobs and careers in the energy sector, an area of need in the US workforce. A broader integration of energy education will expand the relevance and practicality of STEM education and forge critical connections with research on energy literacy and catalyze the convergence between STEM education, environmental education, and education for sustainability.