Collaborative Research: Research Culturally Based Citizen Science: Rebuilding Relationships to Place

合作研究：基于文化的公民科学研究：重建与地方的关系

• 批准号: 1114555
• 负责人: Megan Bang
• 金额: $ 55.44万
• 依托单位: American Indian Center of Chicago
• 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: 2011-09-15 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1114555&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Culturally; Based; Citizen

The purpose of this three-year collaborative design research project is to examine the role of culture in the development of knowledge and reasoning about the natural world and the subsequent sense-making of and participation in natural resource management. The PIs propose to examine the ways in which culture impacts observational habits, explanation constructing, uses and forms of evidence, and orientations towards socio-scientific challenges such as natural resource management. Collaborating on this project are researchers from the American Indian Center of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. The audience for this study includes the academic informal science education community and indigenous science educators. This project also offers extensive cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary research opportunities for pre- and post-doctoral research trainees.The project will employ a mixed methods approach and proposes evaluation through an advisory board and community input. A community assessment team is proposed to review activities, obtain feedback from the larger community, and identify challenges to the effective implementation of the program. The project is comprised of two main panels of studies: the first consisting of a series of investigations of learning in everyday activities and the second consisting of two community design experiments that engage two Native American communities and two non-Native communities, one rural and one urban for both communities, in a culturally based citizen science (CBCS) project focused on ecosystem disruption (e.g. invasive species; climate change) and natural resource management. The CBCS project will engage participants in question formation, data collection, data analysis, forming policy recommendations, and citizen action around the findings. This project will develop a citizen science model that effectively engages diverse communities towards productive science learning, helpful scientific data collection, and citizen engagement in community planning and local policy decisions. The researchers believe that fundamental advances in STEM teaching and learning are needed across the broad landscape of learning environments and that the success of such advances may pivot on innovations and discoveries made in informal environments. Insights obtained from prior research on learning in indigenous cultures, especially in biological and environmental sciences, combined with the anticipated results from this study could lead to a deeper understanding of cross-cultural similarities and differences in science learning.

这个为期三年的协作设计研究项目的目的是研究文化在自然界知识和推理的发展中的作用，以及随后的自然资源管理和参与。 PI提议研究文化影响观察习惯，解释，用途和形式的证据以及对社会科学挑战（例如自然资源管理）的方向的方式。 该项目的合作是来自芝加哥美洲印第安人中心，西北大学的研究人员和威斯康星州的梅诺米尼印度部落。这项研究的受众包括学术非正式科学教育社区和土著科学教育者。 该项目还为博士后研究训练者提供了广泛的跨文化，跨学科研究机会。该项目将采用混合方法，并通过顾问委员会和社区意见进行评估。建议一个社区评估团队审查活动，从较大的社区那里获得反馈，并确定有效实施计划的挑战。该项目由两个主要研究组成：第一个由一系列的日常活动中的学习调查组成，第二个由两个社区设计实验组成，这些实验与两个社区和两个社区的一个非本地社区相关，两个社区的一个城市和一个城市都涉及基于文化的公民科学（CBCS）项目，这些项目涉及生态管理的项目; CBCS项目将吸引参与者参与有关结果的组建，数据收集，数据分析，制定政策建议以及围绕调查结果的公民行动。该项目将开发一个公民科学模型，该模型有效地吸引了不同社区的生产科学学习，有用的科学数据收集以及公民参与社区计划和地方政策决策。研究人员认为，在学习环境的广泛景观中需要进行STEM教学的基本进步，并且此类进步的成功可能会使在非正式环境中所做的创新和发现转移。从先前关于土著文化学习的研究（尤其是在生物学和环境科学中）的研究获得的见解，再加上这项研究的预期结果可能会导致人们对跨文化的相似性和科学学习的差异有更深入的了解。