SGER: Universities as Sites of Democratic Education

SGER：大学作为民主教育的场所

• 批准号: 9912517
• 负责人: Henry Teune
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-11-15 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9912517&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Universities; Sites; Democratic; Education

This pilot study of 15 American colleges and universities in the Fall of 1999 and early Spring of 2000 is a survey of institutional practices and dispositions toward democracy. It parallels a similar study to be conducted by the Committee of Higher Education and Research of the Council of Europe across a range of countries and regions of stability and conflict. The second stage of the research begins in late Spring of 2000 and involves random samples of about 125 university or college settings in both Europe and the United States. Unless the reserarch begins this Fall, it is not possible for the United States to be a partner engaged in the design of this research. The immediate goal of this comparative study is to map what is being done by universities as institutions, as well as their activities as social and political nodes in their localities, that might affect democratic political development among their students, their community, region, and country.The focus of the data and information gathered are colleges and universities as socializaing institutions for democratic values and competencies. The two kinds of data are: (1) interviews with informants within the university (students, faculty, and administrators) and community leaders (government, education, media, civic associatoins, and business), and (2) an inventory of accessible data from each instituttion and localty. Each selected university site has one researcher who conducts about 45 interviews. The questionnaire format includes both categoric ratings and open questions probing for university policies and actions. The questions are evaluated for constructing cross-nationally viable scales in the second stage of the research. The criterion to be used for selecting sites is variation, covering private and public, large and small institutions, urban and rural settings, and states and regions. In Europe, in addition to selection across regions, areas of conflict in Northern Ireland and the Balkans are targeted. The budget allocates most of the money to researchers in the colleges and universities selected and to a training workshop of those researchers in Philadephia. The Council of Europe intends an amount greater than this in addition to funds for analysis. If successful, the large-scale study of samples of colleges and univerisities in Europe and the United States will be launched, with the official title, Universities as Sites of Citizenship and Civic Responsibility. This is under the auspices of an Internaitonal Consortium composed of members from the Council of Europe Committee on Higher Education and Research and, in the United States, the American Association for Higher Education, Association of American Colleges and Universities, American Council on Education, and Campus Compact. There is a three-person coordinating committee of the Consortium to adminster the research. The research is part of the Council of Europe's program, Education for Democratic Citizenship.

这项于 1999 年秋季和 2000 年春初对 15 所美国学院和大学进行的试点研究是对制度实践和民主倾向的调查。 欧洲委员会高等教育和研究委员会在一系列稳定和冲突的国家和地区进行了一项类似的研究。 研究的第二阶段于 2000 年春末开始，涉及欧洲和美国约 125 所大学或学院的随机样本。 除非这项研究在今年秋天开始，否则美国不可能成为参与这项研究设计的合作伙伴。这项比较研究的直接目标是描绘大学作为机构所做的事情，以及它们作为当地社会和政治节点的活动，这些活动可能会影响学生、社区、地区和国家的民主政治发展。收集的数据和信息的重点是学院和大学作为民主价值观和能力的社会化机构。 这两类数据是：(1) 对大学内部知情人（学生、教师和管理人员）和社区领袖（政府、教育、媒体、公民协会和企业）的采访，以及 (2) 来自每个机构和地方的可访问数据清单。 每个选定的大学站点都有一名研究人员进行大约 45 次访谈。 问卷格式包括分类评级和对大学政策和行动的开放性问题探讨。 对这些问题进行评估，以便在研究的第二阶段构建跨国可行的量表。选择地点的标准是多样化的，涵盖私人和公共、大型和小型机构、城市和乡村环境以及州和地区。 在欧洲，除了跨地区选择外，北爱尔兰和巴尔干地区的冲突地区也是目标。预算将大部分资金分配给选定的学院和大学的研究人员以及费城这些研究人员的培训研讨会。 除了用于分析的资金外，欧洲委员会还打算提供比这更多的资金。如果成功，将对欧洲和美国的学院和大学样本进行大规模研究，正式名称为“大学作为公民和公民责任的场所”。 该项目由欧洲委员会高等教育和研究委员会以及美国高等教育协会、美国学院和大学协会、美国教育委员会和校园契约成员组成的国际联盟赞助。 该联盟有一个三人协调委员会来管理这项研究。 这项研究是欧洲委员会民主公民教育计划的一部分。