Creating a Culture of Youth as Co-Researchers: The Kickoff of a Year-Long STEM Pipeline Program.
Creating a Culture of Youth as Co-Researchers: The Kickoff of a Year-Long STEM Pipeline Program.
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10.15695/jstem/v3i1.02
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2020
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Maynard K
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Jacquez F;Vaughn L;Boards A;Deters A;Wells J;Maynard K
STEM管道项目通常包括青年的研究经验，但很少关注青年作为共同决策者或研究工作的领导者。青年参与性行动研究（YPAR）和社区参与性研究（CBPR）方向表明，青年伙伴关系将使研究的质量和相关性受益。由于传统上年轻人没有机会担任这种领导角色，希望提升年轻人在研究中的作用的STEM管道项目必须创造一种新的共同创造文化，颠覆青少年在高中经历的传统教学模式。我们将Research Kickoff作为一种策略，吸引年轻人参与为期一年的STEM管道项目，从他们的第一次经历中成为共同研究人员。我们围绕一个由六个部分组成的框架来设计活动：内容、流程、声音、网络、参与和文化。我们框架的六个组成部分中的每一个都体现在一系列活动中，包括参与式研究过程，邀请合作和重视不同的专业知识，以及建立关系。为了告知未来有兴趣吸引青年作为共同研究人员的项目，我们详细介绍了研究启动在两个队列中的迭代发展，并描述了它如何从第一次接触开始就吸引青年作为变革推动者。
STEM pipeline programs often include research experiences for youth, but fewer focus on youth as shared decision-makers or leaders in research efforts. Youth participatory action research (YPAR) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) orientations suggest that the quality and relevance of research will benefit from youth partnership. Because youth do not traditionally have the opportunity to serve in this type of leadership capacity, STEM pipeline programs that wish to elevate the role of youth in research must create a new culture of co-creation that upends the traditional pedagogical models adolescents experience in high school. We present Research Kickoff as a strategy to engage youth as co-researchers from their very first experience in a year-long STEM pipeline program. We designed activities around a framework consisting of six components: content, process, voice, network, engagement, and culture. Each of the six components of our framework are represented in a series of activities that include participatory research processes, inviting collaboration and valuing diverse expertise, and relationship building. To inform future programs interested in engaging youth as co-researchers, we detail the iterative development of Research Kickoff over two cohorts and describe how it serves to engage youth as change agents from the first touch.