A Participatory Investigation of Learning in International Service Projects

国际服务项目中学习的参与式调查

• 批准号: 0935057
• 负责人: J. Bruce Elliott-Litchfield
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 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: 2009-10-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0935057&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Participatory; Investigation; Learning; International; Service

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This engineering education research award to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will employ researchers to investigate the learning mechanisms and benefits to engineering education of popular and rapidly expanding international service learning projects. These projects are believed to elicit many of the competencies for future engineers described as essential by the National Academy of Engineering and engineering education accreditation boards. The results of this research will enable the development and dissemination of research-based educational materials for project-centered service-learning experiences for engineers. It will also lead to the discovery of models and pedagogical approaches for incorporating key features of co-curricular international project work into the mainstream of instruction and curriculum reform. International projects may be a powerful means to provide preparation for professional practice, developing knowledge and competencies in meaningful contexts that are applicable for both domestic and international engineering projects. The acquisition of these competencies will better prepare engineering students to participate in a more globally competitive workforce.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的这项工程教育研究奖将聘请研究人员调查流行和迅速扩大的国际服务学习项目的学习机制和对工程教育的好处。这些项目被认为是引出了许多能力，为未来的工程师描述为必不可少的国家工程学院和工程教育认证委员会。 这项研究的结果将使基于研究的教育材料的开发和传播为工程师以项目为中心的服务学习经验。它还将导致模式和教学方法的发现，将共同课程的国际项目工作的主要特点纳入教学和课程改革的主流。国际项目可能是一个强大的手段，为专业实践提供准备，在适用于国内和国际工程项目的有意义的背景下发展知识和能力。这些能力的获得将更好地准备工程专业的学生参与更具全球竞争力的劳动力。