Resiliency through partnerships: Prioritizing STEM workforce pathways amid macro challenges
Resiliency through partnerships: Prioritizing STEM workforce pathways amid macro challenges
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通过伙伴关系实现弹性：在宏观挑战中优先考虑 STEM 劳动力路径
DOI：
10.1111/ssm.12575
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Grohs, Jake
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作者：
Mathieson, Danny;Cotrupi, Catherine;Schilling, Malle;Grohs, Jake
多机构教育伙伴关系是培养熟练技术劳动力的一种有前途的方法。不可阻挡的是，COVID-19破坏了维持这种支持熟练技术劳动力教育的合作伙伴网络的能力。这项研究的目的是探索西南弗吉尼亚州的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）为重点的多机构合作伙伴关系网络，盘点COVID-19的破坏性影响，并确定合作伙伴关系利益相关者如何应对这些挑战，为学生培养熟练的技术劳动力。这项工作提出了一个单一的案例研究设计，突出了在整个大流行期间，弗吉尼亚州西南部STEM劳动力教育伙伴关系网络的不断发展。该团队与19个区域利益相关者进行了访谈，重点关注参与者在整个疫情期间的角色，公共卫生和经济因素对STEM劳动力教育的障碍，以及通过COVID-19维持和扩大合作伙伴网络的创新策略。本研究提出了两个关键主题：成功的合作伙伴通过适应性互动保持网络联系，网络内的行为者充当经纪人，在逆境中利用他们的联系和扩大伙伴关系。通过对合作伙伴网络在COVID-19期间创造公平STEM劳动力途径中的作用进行背景分析，我们对合作伙伴关系的形成、协作、资源分配和在成功挑战中的规划提出了丰富的见解。
Multi‐institutional educational partnerships are a promising approach to developing the skilled technical workforce. Inexorably, the ability to maintain such partnership networks that support skilled technical workforce education was disrupted by COVID‐19. The purpose of this study is to explore Southwest Virginia's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)‐focused multi‐institutional partnership networks, to inventory the disruptive impacts of COVID‐19, and to identify how partnership stakeholders navigated these challenges to prepare students for the skilled technical workforce. This work presents a single‐case study design, highlighting the evolving landscape of STEM workforce education partnership networks in Southwest Virginia throughout the pandemic. The team conducted interviews with 19 regional stakeholders focused on the participants' role throughout the pandemic, barriers to STEM workforce education presented by public health and economic factors, and innovative strategies to sustain and expand partnership networks through COVID‐19. Two key themes emerged from this study: successful partners maintained network connections through adaptive interactions and actors within the network served as brokers to leverage their connections and expand partnerships in the face of adversity. By taking a contextual view of the role of partnership networks in creating equitable STEM workforce pathways during COVID‐19, we develop rich insights into partnership formation, collaboration, resource allocation, and programming amidst challenges to their success.