SLC Catalyst: Culture, Learning, and Development

美国社会正变得越来越多种族。然而，传统上，在与理解、学习和发展有关的核心领域，文化多样性问题一直处于边缘地位。学习科学必须把这些问题放在学习和发展的科学研究的中心。这项可持续发展促进活动的目标是为建立文化、学习和发展研究中心奠定概念、方法和经验基础。该项目将侧重于三项活动：(1)将生态框架内系统研究文化、学习和发展的研究议程概念化并付诸实施，特别侧重于人类群体发展的不同文化途径；(2)建立完成这一议程所需的伙伴关系；(3)为支持一个高效、批判性反思和生产中心所需的各种工作做法、领导和管理结构、评估和传播努力制定蓝图。研究议程将解决有关不同文化发展道路的基本问题，这些问题尚未得到回答。它将解决在跨学科框架内对复杂的社会生态进行实证调查的基本方法问题。文化、学习和发展研究中心将有助于更深入地了解我们社会中持久的和新出现的社会和教育困境，更重要的是，有助于设计旨在改善这个国家许多历史上未得到教育和公共服务努力的人的生活机会的模型。

American society is becoming increasingly multi-ethnic. Traditionally, however, issues of cultural diversity have been peripheral in core fields concerned with understanding learning and development. A science of learning must place these issues at the center of the scientific investigation of learning and development. The goal of this SLC Catalyst activity is to develop the conceptual, methodological and empirical underpinnings for the creation of a Center for the Study of Culture, Learning and Development.The project will focus on three activities: (1) conceptualize and operationalize a research agenda for the systematic study of culture, learning and development within an ecological framework, focusing in particular on the diverse cultural pathways of development across human groups; (2) build the partnerships needed to accomplish such an agenda; and (3) create a blueprint for the kinds of work practices, leadership and management structures, evaluation and dissemination efforts needed to support an efficient, critically reflective, and productive Center. The research agenda will address fundamental, unanswered questions about diverse cultural pathways of development. It will address fundamental methodological issues in the empirical investigation of complex social ecologies within an inter-disciplinary framework.A Center for the Study of Culture, Learning and Development will contribute to deeper understanding of both persistent and emergent social and educational dilemmas in our society, and, importantly, to the design of models aimed at improving life chances for the many in this country who historically have been underserved by educational and public service efforts.