COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Culturally Responsive Making: Developing High-Low Tech Maker Activities in Local and Mobile Spaces for Supporting American Indian Youth

合作研究：文化响应式制作：在本地和移动空间开展高低技术创客活动以支持美国印第安青年

• 批准号: 1623404
• 负责人: Kristin Searle
• 金额: $ 16.15万
• 依托单位: Utah State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1623404&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COLLABORATIVE; RESEARCH; Culturally; Responsive; Making

This project will develop culturally responsive making and makerspaces with Indigenous communities in Arizona and Utah. The investigators will work in and with these communities to design maker activities utilizing technologies that complement existing cultural practices where the communities are located. This will be done by addressing the following research questions: 1) How does the design of a community makerspace located at a community college on tribal lands differ from the design of a mobile makerspace that travels between tribal communities? What are the affordances and constraints of each model?; 2) How do high-low tech making activities implemented in these two distinct makerspaces support culturally responsive making and STEM learning in American Indian communities?; and 3) How do these new makerspaces and activities impact youth, teacher, and community conceptions of and interest in STEM learning? By leveraging heritage craft practices, Indigenous technologies, and a mixture of high-low tech tools and materials, this project will expand the range of available maker activities and broaden our definitions of making to encompass craft practices and Indigenous technologies, which are often excluded from the maker literature and makerspaces. Through the design and development of local and mobile makerspace models serving American Indian communities, knowledge of how to design makerspaces that meet community needs and foster STEM learning will be generated. In terms of broader impact, the project will diversify making activities and makerspaces in ways that allow broadened participation in making for underserved American Indian communities. A key project goal is to critically explore making as a democratizing practice that can broaden Indigenous communities' access to and participation in STEM learning. This project is a part of NSF's Maker Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) portfolio (NSF 15-086), a collaborative investment of Directorates for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), Education and Human Resources (EHR) and Engineering (ENG).

该项目将与亚利桑那州和犹他州的土著社区发展具有文化响应式的制作和创造空间。调查人员将在这些社区中与这些社区一起工作，以使用补充社区所在的现有文化实践的技术设计制造商活动。这将通过解决以下研究问题来完成：1）位于部落土地上社区学院的社区制造商空间的设计与在部落社区之间旅行的移动制造商空间的设计不同？每种型号的负担和约束是什么？ 2）在这两个不同的创造者空间中实施的高低技术制作活动如何支持美洲印第安人社区的文化响应式和STEM学习？ 3）这些新的创造空间和活动如何影响青年，老师以及对STEM学习的兴趣和兴趣？ 通过利用遗产工艺实践，土著技术以及高低技术工具和材料的混合物，该项目将扩大可用的制造商活动的范围，并扩大我们制作的定义，以包含工艺实践和土著技术，这些技术通常被排除在Maker Maker文献和Makerspaces之外。通过为美洲印第安人社区提供服务的本地和移动制造商空间的设计和开发，将产生如何设计满足社区需求和寄养STEM学习的制造商的知识。在更广泛的影响方面，该项目将以允许扩大服务不足的美洲印第安社区的方式来使制作活动和创作空间多样化。一个关键的项目目标是批判性地探索成为一种民主化的实践，可以扩大土著社区对STEM学习的访问和参与。 该项目是NSF制造商亲爱的同事信（DCL）投资组合（NSF 15-086）的一部分，这是计算机与信息科学与工程局（CISE），教育与人力资源（EHR）和工程（ENG）的合作投​​资。