Institutional Transformation: The Role of Service Learning and Community Engagement on the Ethical Development of STEM Students and Campus Culture

制度转型：服务学习和社区参与对 STEM 学生道德发展和校园文化的作用

• 批准号: 1635554
• 负责人: Jason Borenstein
• 金额: $ 59.97万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 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: 2016-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1635554&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Institutional; Transformation; Role; Service; Learning

Current and future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals produce products and services that touch nearly every aspect of human life. This proposed research will focus on the ethical responsibility of STEM professionals to critically examine the role of technology and to understand how its design impacts society at large. The proposed research will inform the design of undergraduate STEM, and other educational efforts. A key goal of the proposed research is to determine which specific facets of student participation in community engagement help students to become better attuned to promoting the public's well-being. The proposed research findings will inform curriculum development and training programs for STEM professionals. It will be of interest to universities, professional societies, communities and industry. This proposed research aims to determine whether appropriately structured community engagement, including service learning, actively contributes to the moral maturation of students and facilitates the broadening of their sphere of ethical concern. The research team aims to discover: (1) whether and how repeat exposure to the public through curriculum-based community engagement can promote the concern that students have for the public's well-being; (2) what role extracurricular community engagement activities play, if any, in increasing student concern for the public; and (3) whether a new service learning program focused on community engagement and sustainability can have a transformative institutional impact. The research team will rigorously evaluate the effects that various forms of community engagement have on students' perceptions of their ethical responsibilities to the public. A mixed quantitative and qualitative approach will be used to understand what, why, and how community engagement experiences affect the mindset of students. The project should reveal the institutional impact of a broad-based effort to increase opportunities in community engagement and could readily inform curricular design at numerous institutions.

当前和未来的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)专业人员生产的产品和服务几乎触及人类生活的方方面面。这项拟议的研究将侧重于STEM专业人员的伦理责任，即批判性地审查技术的作用，并了解其设计如何影响整个社会。这项拟议的研究将为本科生STEM的设计和其他教育努力提供参考。这项拟议研究的一个关键目标是确定学生参与社区参与的哪些具体方面有助于学生更好地适应促进公众福祉。拟议的研究结果将为STEM专业人员的课程开发和培训计划提供参考。它将引起大学、专业协会、社区和行业的兴趣。这项拟议的研究旨在确定适当结构的社区参与，包括服务学习，是否积极有助于学生的道德成熟，并有助于拓宽他们的伦理关怀领域。研究小组旨在发现：(1)通过基于课程的社区参与反复接触公众是否以及如何促进学生对公共福祉的关注；(2)课外社区参与活动在增加学生对公共事务的关注方面发挥了什么作用(如果有的话)；以及(3)专注于社区参与和可持续发展的新服务学习计划是否能够产生变革性的制度影响。研究小组将严格评估各种形式的社区参与对学生对公众承担道德责任的认知所产生的影响。我们将使用定量和定性相结合的方法来理解社区参与体验对学生的心态有什么影响、为什么影响以及如何影响。该项目应揭示增加社区参与机会的广泛努力的体制影响，并可随时为许多机构的课程设计提供信息。

项目成果

Linking personal and professional social responsibility development to microethics and macroethics: Observations from early undergraduate education

将个人和职业社会责任发展与微观伦理学和宏观伦理学联系起来：早期本科教育的观察

• DOI: 10.1002/jee.20371
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of Engineering Education
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Schiff, Daniel S.;Logevall, Emma;Borenstein, Jason;Newstetter, Wendy;Potts, Colin;Zegura, Ellen
• 通讯作者: Zegura, Ellen

Social Responsibility Attitudes Among Undergraduate Computer Science Students: An Empirical Analysis

计算机科学专业本科生的社会责任态度：实证分析

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
• 作者: Kreth, Quintin;Schiff, Daniel;Lee, Jeonghyun;Zegura, Ellen;Borenstein, Jason
• 通讯作者: Borenstein, Jason

Undergraduate STEM Students and Community Engagement Activities: Initial Findings from an Assessment of Their Concern for Public Well-being

本科 STEM 学生和社区参与活动：评估他们对公共福祉的关注的初步结果

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: ASEE annual conference & exposition
• 作者: Erwin, Alexandra;Borenstein, Jason;Newstetter, Wendy;Potts, Colin;Zegura, Ellen
• 通讯作者: Zegura, Ellen