Educating Miners: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Rhetorical and Social Understandings in US and British Mine Safety Training Programs

9321470绍尔这个比较研究项目将考察美国和英国的煤矿安全培训项目，以确定成功的安全培训所需的修辞和社会理解。 拟议的项目将把最近建立的社会理论研究与科学和技术话语的修辞和女权主义分析结合在一起。 本研究将1）比较美国和英国矿山安全教育计划和培训要求的结构、内容、管理和理念; 2）确定美国和英国矿山中有关风险和安全的专家和背景知识的领域; 3）定义管理美国和英国操作培训测试的视觉和口头惯例以及修辞假设; 4）确定方案如何将责任和权力分配给各个社会团体，以预防矿山中的危险; 5）探索使矿工能够解释并积极理解矿山中的安全程序和风险的社会理解和专业知识;以及6）就社会理解在安全程序和指导手册的构建和解释中的作用得出更广泛的结论。 研究结果将在论文和会议上发表。 调查人员还计划将结果提供给负责矿山安全的政府机构，并为制定更有效的安全培训和教育计划提供一些切实可行的建议，以减少矿山风险。 ***

9321470 Sauer This comparative research project will examine U.S. and British mine safety training programs in order to identify the rhetorical and social understandings necessary for successful safety training. The proposed project will bring together recently established social-theoretical research in the public understanding of science with rhetorical and feminist analysis of scientific and technical discourse. The research will 1) compare the structure, content, administration, and philosophy of U.S. and British mine safety education programs and training requirements; 2) identify domains of expert and contextually-generated knowledge about risk and safety in U.S. and British mines; 3) define the visual and verbal conventions and rhetorical assumptions that govern operational training tesxts in the U.S. and Britain; 4) define how programs assign responsibility and authority to various social groups for hazard prevention in mines; 5) explore the social understandings and expertise that enable miners to interpret and actively make sense of safety procedures and risk in the mines; and 6) draw broader conclusions about the role of social understandings in the construction and interpretation of safety procedures and instruction manuals. The results of the research will be presented in papers and at conferences. The investigators also plan to make results available to government agencies with responsibilities for mine safety, and to offer some practical recommendations for developing more effective safety training and education programs to reduce risk in mines. ***