CAREER: ENGINEERING DESIGN ACROSS NAVAJO CULTURE, COMMUNITY, AND SOCIETY

职业：跨纳瓦霍文化、社区和社会的工程设计

• 批准号: 1351728
• 负责人: Shawn Jordan
• 金额: $ 45.51万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1351728&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; ENGINEERING; DESIGN; ACROSS; NAVAJO

This study seeks to (1) explore the ways in which Navajo students and Navajo professionals experience and understand engineering design in the context of their culture, community, and society; (2) conduct a design-based research study on the development of culturally-contextualized theory of learning and curriculum modules that will be piloted in several schools in the Navajo Nation; and (3) create and pilot tools to evaluate Navajo students? experience of engineering design. Under the theoretical frameworks of social constructivism and culturally relevant pedagogy, this study will use a phenomenographic approach to explore the ways that Navajo students and Navajo professionals experience engineering design in the context of their culture, and a design-based research approach to apply the results from the phenomenography in the iterative development of culturally-contextualized engineering curricula. With the focus on engineering in the Next Generation Science Standards, the results of this study will provide critical insight into how to engage and evaluate Navajo students in culturally-contextualized engineering design curricula, which will illuminate pathways for higher education and careers in STEM fields.

本研究旨在（1）探讨纳瓦霍学生和纳瓦霍专业人员在其文化，社区和社会背景下体验和理解工程设计的方式;（2）进行基于设计的研究，研究文化背景下的学习理论和课程模块的发展，将在纳瓦霍民族的几所学校进行试点;和（3）创建和试点工具，以评估纳瓦霍学生？有工程设计经验。在社会建构主义和文化相关教育学的理论框架下，本研究将采用现象学方法探索纳瓦霍学生和纳瓦霍专业人员在其文化背景下体验工程设计的方式，并采用基于设计的研究方法将现象学的结果应用于文化背景下工程课程的迭代开发。随着下一代科学标准中工程的重点，本研究的结果将提供关键的洞察力，如何参与和评估纳瓦霍学生在文化背景下的工程设计课程，这将照亮高等教育和职业生涯的途径在干领域。