2023年7月5日至7日，国际地理学联合会（IGU）地理教育委员会（IGU-CGE）将在英国牛津大学教育学院举办国际会议。该会议以“人类世代的地理教育”为主题，为来自世界各地的学者提供一个重要机会，让他们从地理角度思考导致并被用于缓解即将到来的全球生态危机的复杂环境、社会、经济和政治因素。作为一个极具转化潜力的重要生态社会节点，教育特别是地理教育的核心目标是教会学生理解和创造性地思考身处其中的构成全球化世界的地方和空间的复杂性。这次会议希望与会学者发挥地理教育的转化潜力，为当前和未来一代提供信息、教诲、赋权和信任，以确保我们唯一的家园——地球的生存和可持续发展。

为了实现这一目标，学者们被邀请在不同的分会场上展示他们在各个子主题的最新成果，例如“地理教育中的伦理、人和地方”，“人类世代的教科书、研究和教学法”，“希望、勇气和有韧性的教学法”，“地理与教师教育：与职前教师的经验互动”以及“去殖民化地理学：声音、知识和位置性”等。

作为北京语言大学教师教育学院的代表，本杰明·格林博士将发表他在彼得·朗主编的《生态文明：应对生态危机的复杂性》（Peter Lang, 2024）一书中所撰写的章节《文明崩溃与后启示录生存》。该文将中国的生态文明（Ecological Civilization）概念定位为一种生态教育哲学，具有向负责任、充满希望、创造性的全球教学、研究和行动实践的潜力，这种潜力能够缓解气候危机和实现生态社会的文明转向。同时，他还将在“人类世代的公民身份、能力和发声”子主题中担任会议主持人。

通过这次会议，本杰明·格林博士将有机会与全球教育学者分享观点，推动中国在构建公平、公正的全球气候合作基础上所倡导的生态文明哲学、概念及其教育政策发展。

The Commission on Geographical Education of the International Geographical Union (IGU-CGE) International Conference is to be held at the Department of Education, Oxford, UK from the 5th to the 7th of July 2023. The conference, under the theme of ‘Geography Education for the Anthropocene’, represents an important opportunity for scholars from across the globe to ‘think geographically’ about the complex environmental, social, economic, and political factors that have both caused and are being utilized to mitigate the impending global ecological crisis. Representing a crucial eco-social node of transformative potential, education, particularly geography education, has at its core the aim of teaching students to understand and think productively about themselves within the complexity of places and spaces that make up our globalized world. In this way, this conference has welcomed international scholars who seek to utilize the transformative potential of geography education to inform, inculcate, empower, and entrust current and future generations with ensuring the survivability and sustainability of our one and only home planet - Earth.

Towards this aim, scholars have been enlisted to present their recent works on various sub themes within sessions such as “Ethics, People and Place in Geography Education”, Textbooks, Research and Pedagogies in, and for, the Anthropocene”, Pedagogies of Hope, Courage, and Resilience”, “Geography and Teacher Education: Engaging with the experiences of student teachers”, and “Decolonizing Geography: Voices, knowledge and positionality” amongst many others. As a proud representative of Teachers College at Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), Assistant Professor, Dr. Benjamin J. Green, will be presenting his forthcoming work titled Ecological Civilization: Engaging the Complexity of Ecological Crisis, a chapter in the forthcoming edited volume Civilizational Collapse and the Philosophy of Post-Apocalyptic Survival (Peter Lang, 2024). Specifically, this work positions China’s concept of Ecological Civilization (EC) as an eco-pedagogical philosophy with the potential to mitigate the climate crisis within a civilizational shift in eco-social culture towards a responsible, hopeful, creative agentic global praxis of teaching, research, and action. Alongside the presentation of this important work, Dr. Green will also hold the responsibility of chairing a session on the sub-theme of “Citizenship, Capabilities, and Voice in the Anthropocene”.

Throughout this conference, Dr. Green will have the opportunity to share ideas with leading educational scholars, promoting not only Teachers College at BLCU, but also important philosophical, conceptual, and educational policy developments emanating from China’s ongoing efforts to foment a global ecological civilization based in fair and equitable global climate cooperation.

作者简介

本杰明·格林博士现为北京语言大学教师教育学院讲师，曾任教于北京外国语大学和外交学院。他本科毕业于加州州立大学萨克拉门托分校并取得政治学学士学位，研究生就读于蒙特雷国际问题研究所并取得国际政策与发展硕士学位，博士生就读于北京师范大学并取得比较教育学博士学位。他在SSCI期刊《教育哲学和理论》、《后数字科学与教育》等和Scopus摘要和引文数据库中发表了25篇文章。他关于后数字时代集体智慧、高等教育治理、高等教育国际化、美中关系、数字民族主义、批判性世界主义和中国国际主义等论著，强调了人类在面对日益复杂的全球危机时应从总体上关注协同进化系统的适应性。

Author Bio

Benjamin J. Green is an Assistant Professor at Teachers College, Beijing Language and Culture University, having previously taught at both Beijing Foreign Studies University, and Beijing Foreign Affairs University. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from California State University, Sacramento (2010) , an M.A. in International Policy and Development from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (2012) , and a Ph.D. in Comparative Education from the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University  (2021) . He is the author of How China’s System of Higher Education Works: Pragmatic Instrumentalism, Centralized-Decentralization, and Rational Chaos (Routledge, 2023) , as well as over 25 international publications in SSCI and/or Scopus indexed journals such as Educational Philosophy and Theory and Postdigital Science and Education. His previous works on postdigital collective intelligence, higher education (HE)  governance, HE internationalization, US-China relations, digital nationalism, critical cosmopolitanism, and Chinese internationalism, highlight an overarching concern for co-evolutionary systemic adaptability in the face of increasingly complex global crises.