The phase will play an critical role in developing a diverse, inclusive, and dynamic Earth and space technological know-how skills pool.
Teachers in GIFT workshop at a Fall Meeting
Educators take part in a Geophysical Information for Teachers workshop at a recent Fall Meeting. Credit: Karna Kurata
By Chris McEntee 3 hours ago
Today I’m notably pleased to announce that AGU is launching a new section: the Education section. AGU’s sections replicate the clinical breadth of the Union and are liable for fostering scientific discussion and collaboration, figuring out emerging problems, supplying member input, and nominating scientists for honors and popularity. The Education segment marks the second one new segment released with the aid of AGU within the beyond 12 months; the Geohealth phase become released in December 2017.
Bringing a Diverse Community Together
The Education section became hooked up to offer a transdisciplinary home and voice for educators and education researchers.After supporting an Education Special Interest Group for some of years and seeing a extensive increase inside the variety of training-related abstracts and classes at the Fall Meeting, AGU found out that the network’s desires had evolved and grown and that it changed into time to create a formal Education segment.
The Education section was mounted to offer a transdisciplinary domestic and voice for educators and training researchers, improving connectivity across all the Earth and space sciences via offering educational knowledge, scholarship, and partnership improvement with other businesses and the public. It will catalyze and shape Earth and space science schooling activities to develop a diverse Earth and area technology talent pool, improve worldwide medical literacy, and growth get entry to to scholarship and collaboration in Earth and space training studies and exercise.
The education sessions that have happened at AGU’s Fall Meetings for a number of years now will hold and will be controlled by the segment.
Making an Impact
An important and specific contribution that the Education segment will make is in shaping the information and talents of destiny generations of students, educators, and the public, grounded inside the emerging discipline of geoscience education research.
Clearly, the Education section will play an crucial position in growing a diverse, inclusive, and dynamic Earth and area science talent pool and in AGU’s strategy to help and increase that talent pool, now not to mention growing public know-how of the Earth and space sciences, all of which might be essential to the long-term fitness of AGU.
In addition, an vital and precise contribution that the Education phase will make is in shaping the understanding and abilties of destiny generations of students, educators, and the public, grounded in the rising discipline of geoscience education research. Education studies is a rigorous science addressing essential issues of getting to know, verbal exchange, variety, fairness, inclusion, and the studies corporation. The discipline of geoscience training studies (GER), which focuses on forming and checking out geoscience training research hypotheses, as well as the development, utility, and assessment of latest geoscience teaching improvements and curricula, is likewise rising.
Advancing Earth and Space Science
AGU strives to guide in myriad approaches, which include pioneering new procedures to growing the trade of medical know-how, encouraging the emergence of latest and transdisciplinary fields of observe, remodeling our packages and operations as we expect the converting needs of our worldwide community, helping scientists enhance their work, and strengthening the integrity of technology. Specifically, with the aid of assisting human beings getting ready for or engaged in any stage of Earth and area technology and related careers, AGU strengthens the global Earth and area science community and enlarges its effect on society.
Next Steps
The AGU Leadership Development/Governance Committee is within the process of selecting founding leaders for the Education section and working on the transition to elected leadership inside the next yr. When joining AGU or renewing their 2019 club, AGU contributors can now choose Education as their number one or secondary segment. We wish you will be part of the Education phase and volunteer for the precise possibility to provide enter and assist form the destiny of the area.
