Exploring directions for post-pandemic disaster education through interdisciplinary collaboration between the UK and South Korea

2019冠状病毒病大流行带来的关键问题之一是灾难发生时科学、技术和社会的关系，特别是如何在不同教育阶段向年轻人解决这种关系。在过去的二十年里，韩国发生的几次重大灾害激发了科技教育者对灾害教育必要性的认识。同样，英国一直受到气候变化引起的自然和技术灾害以及技术系统日益复杂的威胁。虽然对灾害的知情理解是通过教育促进灾害恢复力和社会正义的必要条件，但在灾害教育背景下整合科学和人文的系统性努力一直很少见。本提案旨在建立一个可持续的网络，在英国和韩国的主要灾害教育研究团体之间。这个为期18个月的项目涉及11名来自教育，灾害社会生态学，历史和科学社会研究的研究人员，将为跨学科和跨文化的灾害教育研究提供一个独特的机会。总部设在南安普顿大学（http：//www.mshe.org.uk/，https：//www.southampton.ac.uk/lifestyle/）的英国小组将由灾害教育专家Park（PI）领导，还将包括中小学科学教育和健康教育专家。梨花女子大学危害扫盲教育研究中心的合作伙伴是社会科学问题教育方面的专家（http：//enactproject.com/）。此外，我们在韩国科学技术高级研究院人类世研究中心（https：//kascenestudies.com/）的合作伙伴拥有通过历史和社会学视角进行灾害研究的专门知识，并参与了各种灾害教育活动。这三个小组之间的合作将为以跨学科和跨文化方式交流和传播知识提供及时的机会。我们建立在我们以前的灾害教育（Lee & Jeon，2015; Park，2020），灾害研究（Kang，2016; Knowles，2012; Park，2019）和SSI教育（Christodoulou等人，2021年; Lee等人，二〇一二年; Lee & Lee，2021; Ratcliffe & Grace，2003年），以发展一种新的灾害教育概念，将灾害的科学、技术和社会方面结合起来，指导今后的研究和实践。我们将组织会议和研讨会，汇集英国和韩国灾害教育的知识和经验。成员们将共同努力，通过两次密集的灾害教育会议，确定灾害教育研究跨学科合作的新途径，并制定一项研究建议，以继续进行国际合作。通过各种知识交流活动，包括会议、研讨会、早期职业研究人员交流和辅导，该网络将探索通过跨文化研究和教育加强青年备灾和抗灾能力的方向。还将举办与教师互动的活动，这将有助于宣传项目活动和接收用户反馈。项目活动将通过一个研究人员和从业人员均可访问的项目网站进行分享。项目产出将包括针对不同用户群体的评论文章、一本灾害教育资料手册、一本编辑书籍和三篇期刊文章。这些产出将对学者、大学教育工作者、不同学科（科学、地理、社会研究、历史等）的教师产生吸引力。以及英国、韩国和其他国家的政策制定者。

One of the critical questions that the COVID-19 pandemic has posed concerns the relationship of science, technology and society in times of disasters, and particularly how such a relationship should be addressed to young people across different stages of education. In the past two decades, several major disasters in South Korea have provoked science and technology educators' awareness of the need for disaster education. Likewise, the UK has been under the threat of natural and technological disasters arising from climate change as well as increasing complexities of technological systems. Although an informed understanding of disasters would be essential to promote disaster resilience and social justice through education, systematic efforts to integrate science and humanities in the context of disaster education have been scarce.This proposal aims to set up a sustainable network between leading disaster education research groups in the UK and South Korea. This 18-month project involving 11 researchers from education, socioecology of disasters, history and social studies of science will provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary and intercultural disaster education research. The UK team based at the University of Southampton (http://www.mshe.org.uk/, https://www.southampton.ac.uk/lifelab/) will be led by Park (PI), an expert in disaster education, and will also include experts in science education and health education across primary and secondary education levels. The partners at the Research Center for Hazard Literacy Education at Ewha Womans University are experts in socioscientific issues (SSI) education (http://enactproject.com/). Further, our partners at the Centre for Anthropocene Research, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (https://anthropocenestudies.com/) have expertise in disaster research through historical and sociological lenses and have engaged in various disaster education activities. Collaboration between the three groups will offer a timely opportunity for knowledge exchange and dissemination in an interdisciplinary and intercultural manner. We build on our previous work on disaster education (Lee & Jeon, 2015; Park, 2020), disaster studies (Kang, 2016; Knowles, 2012; Park, 2019) and SSI education (Christodoulou et al., 2021; Lee et al., 2012; Lee & Lee, 2021; Ratcliffe & Grace, 2003) to develop a new conceptualisation of disaster education that integrates the scientific, technological and social aspects of disasters that can guide future research and practice.Using the networking grant with the support of existing institutional funding sources, we will organise conferences and seminars to bring together knowledge and experiences of disaster education in the UK and South Korean contexts. Members will work together to identify new avenues for cross-disciplinary collaboration in disaster education research through two intensive disaster education conferences and develop a research proposal to continue with the international collaboration. Through various knowledge exchange activities including conferences, seminars, early career researcher exchanges and mentoring, the network will explore directions for enhancing disaster preparedness and resilience in young people through intercultural research and education. There will be events to interact with teachers, which will help disseminate the project activities and receive user feedback. The project activities will be shared via a project website that is accessible for both researchers and practitioners. Project outputs will include opinion pieces, a disaster education resource book, an edited book and three journal articles, each targeted at different groups of users. These outputs will have an appeal for academics, university educators, teachers of different subjects (science, geography, social studies, history, etc.) and policymakers in the UK, South Korea and other countries.