Citizen-Scientists as Agents of Change: Training the Trainer in the Ethics of Science and Technology

作为变革推动者的公民科学家：对培训师进行科学技术伦理培训

• 批准号: 1338652
• 负责人: Don Howard
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1338652&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Citizen; Scientists; Agents; Change; Training

This award by the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering program in the Division of Social and Economic Sciences is for building upon existing research ethics training opportunities at the University of Notre Dame. This project is fully funded by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate. A select group of fifteen students per year will have the opportunity for advanced training in the ethics of science and technology with a focus on 'big picture' or 'macro-ethics' issues. Their training starts with an intensive, one-week citizen-scientist ethics boot camp, and is reinforced for the remainder of the academic year with mandatory, follow-on, in-service projects. The students who participate in this train-the-trainer program will take what they learn back into their laboratories, classrooms, professional associations, and on into their own later careers, and through their actions they will serve as models. The virtue ethics tradition is the theoretical basis informing the program and will be taught during the one-week citizen-scientist ethics boot camp and revisited when necessary at bi-monthly brown bag sessions. Building upon the notion of virtue as habit that is central to the virtue ethics tradition, and upon the core idea that ethical learning and ethical decision making are based upon modeling the actions of exemplary moral agents, the program puts more emphasis on the practice of individuals as change agents than on the principles of ethics. This project is expected to produce science and engineering graduate students who will be models of the ethically engaged citizen-scientist. Pedagogy and morality come together within this framework as aspects of a common task of training new scholars, scientists, and engineers in whose lives habits of ethical engagement become an integral part of their work as scientists and engineers.The overarching goal of this project is to create Agents of Change who will serve as trainers themselves. The graduate students will convey what they have learned to others through in-service projects that engage their colleagues, students, and professional, local, and national communities. They will also have ample opportunities to disseminate their learning both on- and off-campus through already established campus programs as well. The Reilly Center 'with help from the Graduate School's Professional Development team, colleagues in the Department of Psychology, and the Center for Social Research' will conduct thorough assessments of the students within the program. Surveys will measure each student's learning while they participate in the program as well as collect feedback from participants on the program's perceived value. This project aims to produce a new generation of student researchers and thought leaders by creating scientists and engineers who, through habit, consider the ethical aspects of their work. These 'agents of change' will become models of ethics engagement for their own future students and professional peers. It is an old saw that one never learns something as well as when one teaches it to others. There is a kernel of truth in that notion, as any teacher knows, and it is an important part of this project. The graduate students who participate in this program will not only receive training in the ethics of science and engineering but they will also learn how to train others.

社会和经济科学部科学与工程伦理教育计划的这一奖项是在圣母大学现有的研究伦理培训机会的基础上建立的。该项目由数学和物理科学局多学科活动办公室全额资助。每年15名学生的精选组将有机会在科学和技术的道德，重点是“大局”或“宏观伦理”问题的高级培训。他们的培训开始于为期一周的强化公民科学家道德靴子营，并在学年的剩余时间内通过强制性的后续在职项目得到加强。谁参加这个培训师计划的学生将把他们学到的东西带回到他们的实验室，教室，专业协会，并进入自己以后的职业生涯，并通过他们的行动，他们将作为模型。美德伦理传统是告知该计划的理论基础，并将在为期一周的公民科学家伦理靴子营期间教授，并在必要时在双月棕色袋会议上重新审视。建立在美德作为习惯的概念，这是核心的美德伦理传统，并在道德学习和道德决策的核心思想是基于示范道德代理人的行为建模，该计划把更多的重点放在个人的实践作为改变代理人比道德的原则。这个项目预计将产生科学和工程研究生谁将是道德参与公民科学家的典范。教育学和道德在这个框架内走到一起，作为一个共同的任务，培养新的学者，科学家和工程师的道德参与的生活习惯成为他们作为科学家和工程师的工作的一个组成部分的方面。研究生将通过在职项目向他人传达他们所学到的知识，这些项目涉及他们的同事，学生以及专业，地方和国家社区。他们也将有充分的机会，通过已经建立的校园计划以及传播他们的学习在校园内外。在研究生院专业发展团队、心理学系同事和社会研究中心的帮助下，赖利中心将对该项目的学生进行全面评估。调查将衡量每个学生的学习，而他们参与该计划，以及收集参与者对该计划的感知价值的反馈。该项目旨在通过培养科学家和工程师来培养新一代的学生研究人员和思想领袖，这些科学家和工程师通过习惯来考虑他们工作的道德方面。这些“变革的推动者”将成为他们自己未来的学生和专业同行的道德参与模式。这是一个古老的说法，一个人永远不会学到东西，以及当一个教别人。这个概念有一个真理的核心，正如任何教师都知道的那样，它是这个项目的重要组成部分。参加该计划的研究生不仅将接受科学和工程伦理方面的培训，而且还将学习如何培训他人。