Education and Community Viability in Western Alaska

阿拉斯加西部的教育和社区活力

• 批准号: 1108571
• 负责人: Marie Lowe
• 金额: $ 31.47万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Anchorage Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1108571&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Education; Community; Viability; Western; Alaska

This project examines education and community viability in Western Alaska by identifying a cross-section of youth and young adults across the Bering Sea region who have pursued post-secondary educational opportunities facilitated by the Community Development Quota (CDQ) program. The overarching research question is: Do opportunities in post-secondary education for youth contribute to the viability of Bering Sea communities and way of life? ?Viability? is defined by the degree to which a community can balance in- and out-migration, sustain a context of livelihood diversification, and create bridges to resources external to the community. In this project, the investigators propose to administer a survey to a random sample of scholarship and training grant recipients who received their awards between 2000 and 2005, conduct focused group interviews with current students, and develop regional profiles to understand if and how post-secondary educational opportunities affect Alaska?s rural youth and their communities.The investigators anticipate the project as designed will help identify the most effective strategies and pathways to success youth in Western Alaska coastal communities have employed and the ways in which this success may benefit their home communities. Specifically, the research is aimed to uncover the contexts in which Alaska youth can assume leadership, citizenship, and stewardship community roles in the future. By examining the context of how educational opportunities bridge Bering Sea youth and young adults with external resources or those beneficial to community viability, this research will help elucidate the ways in which the kinds of educational experiences the CDQ program provides is important not only for rural Alaska, but how the CDQ model might potentially have wider arctic or global applicability in other regions where there is large scale resource development juxtaposed to rural communities struggling with economic development.

该项目通过确定白令海地区的青年和年轻人的横截面来研究阿拉斯加西部的教育和社区生存能力，这些青年和年轻人追求由社区发展计划（CDQ）促进的中学后教育机会。首要的研究问题是：在中学后教育的青年机会有助于白令海社区和生活方式的可行性？ ?可行性？是由社区能够平衡迁入和迁出移民、维持生计多样化以及为社区以外的资源建立桥梁的程度来界定的。 在这个项目中，调查人员建议管理一项调查，以随机抽样的奖学金和培训补助金获得者谁收到了他们的奖项在2000年和2005年之间，进行重点小组访谈与当前的学生，并制定区域概况，以了解是否以及如何中学后教育机会影响阿拉斯加？调查人员预计，该项目的设计将有助于确定最有效的战略和途径，以成功的青年在阿拉斯加西部沿海社区所采用的方式，这种成功可能有利于他们的家乡社区。 具体来说，这项研究的目的是揭示阿拉斯加青年在未来可以承担领导，公民和管理社区角色的背景。 通过研究教育机会如何将白令海青年和年轻人与外部资源或有利于社区生存能力的资源联系起来，这项研究将有助于阐明CDQ计划提供的各种教育经验不仅对阿拉斯加农村很重要，但是，CDQ模型如何可能在其他地区具有更广泛的北极或全球适用性，这些地区有大规模的资源开发，为经济发展而奋斗的社区。