Doctoral Dissertation Research: Spatial Dimensions of Gender Identities of Adolescent Females in Charleston, South Carolina

博士论文研究：南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿青少年女性性别认同的空间维度

• 批准号: 0000275
• 负责人: Eric Sheppard
• 金额: $ 0.92万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-03-15 至 2002-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0000275&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Spatial; Dimensions

Exciting new lines of research recently have focused on the development of spatial reasoning and skills among different groups of people. Some of these studies have examined differences among males and females. This doctoral dissertation research project will examine how teenage girls conceive of space and use spatial strategies to maneuver through social contexts that are controlled adult and influenced by gender. The research seeks (1) to provide a better understanding of girls' spaces and of the ways girls create and manipulate space for expression of their identities; (2) to investigate the relationship of specific spaces, including institutional and personal spaces, and girls' articulations of their everyday experiences and behaviors in those spaces; and (3) to provide a means for teenage participants to express and represent meanings of space and identity in their everyday lives. Media analysis and interviews with adult service providers and educators will provide contextual data on the spaces in which girls spend much of their time in Charleston, South Carolina. These sources of information also will contribute to analyses connecting adult-ordered space with spatial actions of teenage girls. The study then will focus on individual and group interviews with teenage girls and will use participatory research methods to provide a means for teenage participants to express and represent meanings of space and identity in their lives. Participatory activities will include map-making exercises, photography, journal writing, and dissemination of these research activities and products. This research will shed valuable new light on the range of strategies that girls employ to negotiate spaces that are defined and enforced by adults. The results of this research will expand understandings of the relationships between space and girls' identity expression in order to produce knowledge that more accurately relates to their own everyday behaviors and attitudes. The project will contribute to understandings of the importance of space and place in gender-related social science, and it will explore new types of participatory research methods. While studying the teen participants as social actors, the project also will encourage their awareness of space through the research activities. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.

最近令人兴奋的新研究方向集中在不同人群之间空间推理和技能的发展上。 其中一些研究考察了男女之间的差异。 这个博士论文研究项目将研究少女如何构思空间，并使用空间策略来操纵由成人控制并受性别影响的社会环境。 这项研究的目的是：（1）更好地了解女孩的空间以及女孩为表达其身份而创造和操纵空间的方式;（2）调查具体空间，包括机构和个人空间与女孩在这些空间中表达其日常经历和行为的关系;以及（3）为青少年参与者提供一种在日常生活中表达和表现空间和身份意义的手段。 媒体分析和对成人服务提供者和教育工作者的采访将提供关于女孩在南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿花费大量时间的空间的背景数据。 这些信息来源也将有助于分析连接成人有序空间与少女的空间行为。 然后，这项研究将侧重于与少女的个人和小组访谈，并将采用参与性研究方法，为青少年参与者提供一种手段，使他们能够表达和代表空间和身份在其生活中的意义。 宣传活动将包括制图练习、摄影、期刊写作以及传播这些研究活动和产品。 这项研究将提供宝贵的新的光的战略范围内，女孩采用谈判的空间是由成年人定义和执行。 这项研究的结果将扩大对空间与女孩身份表达之间关系的理解，以便产生更准确地与她们自己的日常行为和态度相关的知识。 该项目将有助于理解空间和地点在与性别有关的社会科学中的重要性，并将探索新型的参与性研究方法。 在研究青少年参与者作为社会行为者的同时，该项目还将通过研究活动鼓励他们对空间的认识。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立的研究生涯。