Insights from the Inclusive Environments and Metrics in Biology Education and Research Network: Our Experience Organizing Inclusive Biology Education Research Events
Insights from the Inclusive Environments and Metrics in Biology Education and Research Network: Our Experience Organizing Inclusive Biology Education Research Events
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DOI：
10.1128/jmbe.v21i1.2083
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发表时间：
2020-02-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Moore, Michael E.
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作者：
Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca A.;Caporale, Natalia;Moore, Michael E.
与专注于提高从幼儿园到本科（K-16） STEM课堂的包容性的努力相反，提高科学会议和会议（STEM文化的重要中心）的包容性的努力是最近才开始的。在这些活动中，有时被忽视的包容性标志包括小组的组成、研讨会的运作方式、会议的负担能力，以及各种其他维持现有等级和规范的机制，这些等级和规范限制了早期职业研究人员和少数文化、语言和经济背景的个人的参与。生物教育和研究中的包容性环境和指标（iEMBER）网络协调了来自许多领域对生物教育的多样性和包容性感兴趣的研究人员的努力。考虑到对专业会议包容性的关注，iEMBER在规划和执行会议方面制定并实施了一些实践，以使会议更具包容性。在本报告中，我们分享了我们在生物教育研究方面开展包容性会议的经验，并讨论了这些努力的成果。具体来说，我们介绍了我们计划和执行2019年11月会议和全国生物教师协会2019年11月研讨会的方法。本报告补充了关于包容性会议的不断增长的资源，为读者提供了关于这种实施尝试如何展开的说明，并补充了与此类会议在STEM代表性方面的重要性和功能相关的现有理论和工作。
In contrast to efforts focusing on improving inclusion in STEM classrooms from kindergarten through undergraduate (K-16), efforts to improve inclusion in scientific meetings and conferences, important hubs of STEM culture, are more recent. Markers of inclusion that are sometimes overlooked at these events can include the composition of panels, how workshops are run, the affordability of conferences, and various other mechanisms that maintain pre-existing hierarchies and norms that limit the participation of early-career researchers and individuals of minoritized cultural, linguistic, and economic backgrounds. The Inclusive Environments and Metrics in Biology Education and Research (iEMBER) network coordinates efforts of researchers from many fields interested in diversity and inclusion in biology education. Given the concerns regarding inclusion at professional meetings, iEMBER has developed and implemented several practices in planning and executing our meetings to make them more inclusive. In this report, we share our experiences developing inclusive meetings on biology education research and discuss the outcomes of such efforts. Specifically, we present our approach to planning and executing the iEMBER 2019 conference and the National Association of Biology Teachers iEMBER 2019 workshop. This report adds to the growing body of resources on inclusive meetings, provides readers with an account of how such an attempt at implementation might unfold, and complements existing theories and work relating to the importance and functioning of such meetings in terms of representation in STEM.