GSE/RES- Collaborative Research - Practical Logic of STEM Career Choice: A Critical Interpretive approach to profiling IT Career Pathways of African American Males at HBCUs

GSE/RES- 合作研究 - STEM 职业选择的实用逻辑：一种批判性解释方法来分析 HBCU 中非裔美国男性的 IT 职业道路

• 批准号: 1232204
• 负责人: Kshiti Joshi
• 金额: $ 27.99万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1232204&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GSE; RES; Collaborative; Research; Practical

Intellectual Merit: This research study focuses on critically examining and tracing the career pathways of successful African American male college students who have opted to pursue IT-related careers. Grounded in the theory of power and practice posited by Pierre Bourdieu, the study uncovers the practical logics that African American men employ when making career choices to pursue IT-related disciplines. The sample consists of 100 African American male students who have expressed interest in IT careers and who are currently enrolled at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). A small sample of African American men at Predominantly White Institutions is also included. The researchers use a critical interpretive approach in which concepts of capital, field and habitus are employed as a framework to build and verify midrange theories about this historically underserved group's engagement with IT by focusing on group-level experiences that influence their decision to pursue an IT career. The research includes conducting person-centered analysis that is well grounded in theory and employs rigorous qualitative approaches. The proposed work contributes to the limited literature on African American men's academic success and helps clarify some of the mixed and contradictory findings about their career choices that exist in the current literature. Broader Impacts: The results of this research reveal how and which social structures enable or constrain African American men's IT-related career choices; information which may be useful to policy makers, teachers and school counselors, and that may inform the creation of innovative interventions. Findings may also contribute to the increase in the STEM workforce while expanding the career options for African American men who are historically disproportionately affected by economic downturns. The research continues a collaboration between Washington State University and Pennsylvania State University as well as strengthens ongoing partnerships with the four participating HBCUs.

智力优势：这项研究的重点是批判性地审查和跟踪成功的非洲裔美国男大学生谁选择了追求IT相关的职业生涯的职业道路。基于皮埃尔·布迪厄提出的权力和实践理论，这项研究揭示了非洲裔美国人在职业选择时从事IT相关学科的实践逻辑。样本包括100名非洲裔美国男性学生谁表示有兴趣在IT职业生涯，谁是目前就读于历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）。 一个小样本的非洲裔美国男子在占主导地位的白色机构也包括在内。研究人员使用一种批判性的解释方法，其中资本，场域和习性的概念被用作一个框架，通过关注影响他们决定从事IT职业的群体层面的经验，来建立和验证关于这个历史上服务不足的群体参与IT的中档理论。该研究包括进行以人为本的分析，这是有充分的理论基础，并采用严格的定性方法。拟议的工作有助于非洲裔美国人的学术成功的有限的文献，并有助于澄清一些混合和矛盾的发现，他们的职业选择，存在于当前的文献。更广泛的影响：这项研究的结果揭示了如何和哪些社会结构，使或限制非洲裔美国人的IT相关的职业选择;信息，这可能是有用的政策制定者，教师和学校辅导员，并可能告知创新的干预措施的创建。调查结果也可能有助于增加STEM劳动力，同时扩大非洲裔美国人的职业选择，他们在历史上受到经济衰退的影响不成比例。该研究继续了华盛顿州立大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学之间的合作，并加强了与四个参与HBCU的持续伙伴关系。