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

该项目将与亚利桑那州和犹他州的土著社区一起开发文化响应型制造和制造空间。调查人员将在这些社区中工作，并与这些社区合作，利用技术设计制造商活动，以补充社区所在地的现有文化习俗。这将通过解决以下研究问题来完成：1）位于部落土地上的社区学院的社区创客空间的设计与在部落社区之间旅行的移动的创客空间的设计有何不同？每种模式的启示和限制是什么？2)在这两个不同的创客空间中实施的高、低技术制造活动如何支持美国印第安社区的文化响应性制造和STEM学习？和3）这些新的创客空间和活动如何影响青年、教师和社区对STEM学习的概念和兴趣？ 通过利用传统工艺实践，土著技术以及高低科技工具和材料的混合物，该项目将扩大可用的制造活动的范围，并扩大我们对制造的定义，以涵盖工艺实践和土著技术，这些技术通常被排除在制造者文献和制造者空间之外。通过设计和开发为美国印第安人社区服务的本地和移动的创客空间模型，将产生如何设计满足社区需求和促进STEM学习的创客空间的知识。就更广泛的影响而言，该项目将使制作活动和创客空间多样化，从而扩大参与为服务不足的美国印第安社区制作。一个关键的项目目标是批判性地探索使作为一种民主化的做法，可以扩大土著社区的机会和参与STEM学习。 该项目是NSF的Maker Dear Colleague Letter（DCL）组合（NSF 15-086）的一部分，该组合是计算机信息科学工程（CISE），教育和人力资源（EHR）和工程（ENG）董事会的合作投资。

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).