Local manifestations of institutional agency: the case of evolution education in Tennessee

机构能动性的地方表现：田纳西州进化教育的案例

• 批准号: 0929457
• 负责人: Norbert Ross
• 金额: $ 19.95万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0929457&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Local; manifestations; institutional; agency; case

This RAPID project explores the impacts of 2009-2010 Tennessee science standards requiring schools throughout the state to teach elementary school students about how natural selection drives adaptation and biological evolution. The project will address the following questions: (1) how and why these standards were developed and adopted; (2) how the mandate will be implemented (from state to classroom levels); (3) how these implementations are negotiated on the local level (parental demand vis-à-vis state government and teachers); and (4) how the resulting curricula inform students' learning of evolution. This project offers the opportunity to study, in real time, what happens when controversial new standards are imposed upon local schools from afar. The project mixes a variety of anthropological and cognitive methodologies, from randomized control experiments of biological knowledge to the collection of ethnographic, survey, and interview data of stakeholders. The results promise to shed light on issues in curricular development, teacher training, and the interplay of social, organizational, and governmental factors that affect teaching and learning.

这个快速项目探讨了2009-2010年田纳西州科学标准的影响，该标准要求全州的学校向小学生讲授自然选择如何推动适应和生物进化。该项目将解决以下问题：（1）这些标准是如何制定和通过的以及为什么制定和通过;（2）如何执行任务（从州到教室）;（3）如何在地方一级谈判这些执行（家长的要求与州政府和教师的要求）;（4）由此产生的课程如何为学生学习进化论提供信息。这个项目提供了一个机会，在真实的时间里，研究当有争议的新标准从远处强加给当地学校时会发生什么。该项目混合了各种人类学和认知方法，从生物知识的随机对照实验到收集人种学，调查和利益相关者的访谈数据。研究结果有望揭示课程开发、教师培训以及影响教与学的社会、组织和政府因素的相互作用等问题。