PPD: FASED: Shaping Vocational Frontiers: Science, Engineering, and Mathematics for Persons with Disabilities in Rural and Remote Areas

PPD：FASED：塑造职业前沿：农村和偏远地区残疾人的科学、工程和数学

• 批准号: 0225253
• 负责人: Richard Radtke
• 金额: $ 21万
• 依托单位: Sea of Dreams Foundation, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-01-01 至 2004-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0225253&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PPD; FASED; Shaping; Vocational; Frontiers

Improving education and inclusion of students with disabilities in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) through camps, science fairs and other programs are imperative to the diversification of our future SMET work force. Students with disabilities in remote and rural regions are much less likely to have access to SMET resources because of their geographic location. Additionally, students with disabilities and their families are often strapped financially due to excessive costs in transportation, adaptive technologies, support personnel, personal care, and architectural adaptations. After families pay for these essentials, SMET camps and programs often are a financial burden. As one step in our project, we plan to collaborate with existing SMET camps and programs, to demonstrate that all camps can be appropriate for students with disabilities. This would enable students in rural and remote regions such as Alaska to participate fully in science and math education experiences leading to careers in SMET. The Shaping Vocational Frontiers Project will be directed by Drs. Radtke and Owens with assistance from Access Alaska. Dr. Radtke is a well known scientist and community activist and Dr. Owens is an experienced researcher and teacher, outdoor educator and inventor. Both men have severe disabilities and are intimately familiar with the problems faced by persons with disabilities in SMET related activities. Access Alaska will be instrumental in training, camp accessibility, and network development. The project will create a program that involves a core of students, families, scientists, educators, and university-level science teacher trainers. This amalgam will strive to enhance the opportunities for acquiring SMET education for students with disabilities throughout Alaska. As a group we will work towards this goal through changes in science education curriculum, educational practices, and policy in the state. We plan to identify students with disabilities across the state who can benefit from this program and provide them with hands-on, field-based science. We will emphasize activities that provide for integration of students with disabilities with their traditional counterparts who do not have disabilities. Role models and mentors, many with disabilities themselves, will advise, problem solve, and guide both individual students and heterogeneous teams of students (consisting of both able-bodied and students with disabilities) in these activities. The appropriate assistive technology will be used in concert with Internet to insure that students with disabilities will be fully included in SMET activities, Electronic technology (including the Internet) will be used to encourage networking and information dissemination among student teams, educational organizations, administrators, and members of the community. The project will be carefully documented for public television and Internet venues. All publications produced by the project will be available through fully accessible electronic media.

通过夏令营、科学博览会和其他方案，改善教育和将残疾学生纳入科学、数学、工程和技术（SMET）领域，对于我们未来的SMET劳动力的多样化至关重要。 偏远和农村地区的残疾学生由于其地理位置，获得小型和微型教育培训资源的可能性要小得多。 此外，残疾学生及其家庭往往由于交通、适应性技术、支持人员、个人护理和建筑适应方面的过高成本而陷入经济困境。 在家庭支付这些必需品后，SMET营地和项目往往是一个经济负担。 作为我们项目的一步，我们计划与现有的SMET营地和项目合作，以证明所有营地都适合残疾学生。 这将使阿拉斯加等农村和偏远地区的学生能够充分参与科学和数学教育，从而在SMET中获得职业生涯。 塑造职业前沿项目将由Radtke博士和Owens博士指导，并得到阿拉斯加的协助。 Radtke博士是一位著名的科学家和社区活动家，Owens博士是一位经验丰富的研究人员和教师，户外教育家和发明家。 两人都有严重的残疾，非常熟悉残疾人在小型和微型企业相关活动中面临的问题。 访问阿拉斯加将有助于培训，营地的可访问性和网络发展。 该项目将创建一个涉及学生，家庭，科学家，教育工作者和大学水平的科学教师培训师的核心计划。 这种混合将努力增加阿拉斯加残疾学生获得小型、微型和电子教育的机会。 作为一个团体，我们将通过改变科学教育课程，教育实践和国家政策来实现这一目标。 我们计划在全州范围内确定残疾学生，他们可以从这个项目中受益，并为他们提供实践性的、基于实地的科学。 我们将强调让残疾学生与传统的非残疾学生融合的活动。 在这些活动中，榜样和导师（其中许多人本身也是残疾人）将为个别学生和不同的学生团队（由健全学生和残疾学生组成）提供建议、解决问题和指导。 适当的辅助技术将与互联网一起使用，以确保残疾学生将充分参与中小企业培训活动。电子技术（包括互联网）将用于鼓励学生团队、教育组织、管理人员和社区成员之间的联网和信息传播。 将为公共电视和互联网场所仔细记录该项目。 该项目制作的所有出版物都将通过完全无障碍的电子媒体提供。