Graduate Teaching Fellows in Community Situated Research: The Triple Helix of University, K-12, and Community Knowledge Production

社区研究的研究生教学研究员：大学，K-12和社区知识生产的三重螺旋机构：伦斯勒理工学院（RPI）PI和联合PI：罗恩·埃格拉什（RPI），露皮塔·蒙托亚（RPI），乔纳森·多迪克（RPI），丹尼尔·斯蒂尔森（奥尔巴尼学校）在“社区定位研究”项目中，研究生将研究他们的STEM研究与当地低收入和少数民族社区面临的社会问题（健康、环境、贫困、犯罪、信息获取等）之间的潜在关系。这些地方社区也将成为研究员的所在地。中学协同教学计划。因此，研究生将更加了解他们的研究学科与紧迫的社会问题之间的联系，以及使他们能够将这些联系传达给公众的培训。在GK-12方面，研究表明，许多少数族裔学生对STEM学术不感兴趣，因为他们认为这与他们的特殊生活无关。通过与受过？公民科学家?（以及我们国际课程的内容）GK-12教师将获得与那些被剥夺权利的学生接触的新机会。至关重要的是，研究生助教和他们的导师有权选择位于STEM研究前沿的项目，而不仅仅是现有知识的应用。科学与技术研究研究生和社区导师将研究这些社区的社会和环境问题，以帮助找到与STEM研究的交叉点。工作室课程将创造出新的教育技术，将研究生们？将STEM研究（如用于化学分析的微芯片）纳入中学学生的学习实验室。而不是单向的涓滴效应？关于知识，我们将探索一种？三重螺旋?大学、中小学和社区知识生产之间的合作。

Graduate Teaching Fellows in Community Situated Research: The Triple Helix of University, K-12, and Community Knowledge ProductionInstitution: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)PI and Co-PI(s): Ron Eglash (RPI), Lupita Montoya (RPI), Jonathan Dordick (RPI), Daniel Stilson (Albany Schools)AbstractIn RPI?s Community Situated Research project, graduate fellows will examine the potential relations between their STEM research, and the social issues facing local low-income and minority communities (health, environment, poverty, crime, information access, etc.). These same local communities will also be the location for the fellows? middle school collaborative teaching program. Thus graduate fellows will gain a greater awareness of the connections between their research disciplines and pressing social issues, as well as the training that enables them to communicate these connections to the public. On the GK-12 side, studies show that many minority students are disinterested in STEM academics because they do not see its relevance to their particular lives. By working with graduate fellows trained as ?civic scientists,? (along with content from our international program) GK-12 teachers will gain new opportunities to engage those disenfranchised students. It is critical that graduate teaching fellows and their faculty mentors are empowered to select projects situated at the frontiers of STEM research, and not merely applications of established knowledge. Science and Technology Studies graduate students and community mentors will be researching the social and environmental issues in these communities to help find the intersections with STEM research. A studio class will create new educational technologies that translate the grad fellows? STEM research (eg microchips for chemical analysis) into learning labs for the middle school students. Rather than a one-way ?trickle-down? of knowledge, we will explore the possibilities for a ?triple helix? collaboration between university, GK-12, and community knowledge production.