REU Site: The Parker Academy: Investigating the Intersection of Freedom, Social Justice, Archaeology, History, and Geography

REU 网站：帕克学院：调查自由、社会正义、考古学、历史和地理的交叉点

• 批准号: 1659467
• 负责人: William Landon
• 金额: $ 33.63万
• 依托单位: Northern Kentucky University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1659467&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Parker; Academy; Investigating

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate. As such, it has both scientific and societal benefits, and it integrates research and education. This multi-institutional project is engaging diverse student participants in field-based and archival research by exploring important problems of race, gender equality, and social justice in American History as evidenced by the Parker Academy (founded 1839) in southern Ohio. The Parker Academy, which closed its doors in 1892 was, for 53 years, a microcosm of the problems and solutions to the divisions that led to the American Civil War and to the tensions and inequalities of its aftermath. Its founders were staunch abolitionists who risked their lives, possessions and property for believing in and teaching human equality; and perhaps most presciently for making their Academy the first preparatory school in the country to house multiracial, coeducational classrooms. These facts, together with the Parker Academy's precise location on the Ohio River in Clermont County, Ohio, literally just across the river from what was once slave-holding Kentucky, make the Parker Academy a nationally significant educational, and abolitionist-driven, institution. The Academy, its founders, supporters and students have not been the subject of serious scholarly investigation, until now. Our preliminary research and excavations have already begun to shed light on this landmark. Our project will bring long overdue local and national attention to the Parker Academy through public history and archaeology, geography, community engagement and science education.The Parker Academy REU is a collaboration among historians, geographers, and anthropologists (archaeology and ethnography). Over three summers (2017, 2018, 2019) 45 undergraduate research fellows (15/year) will engage in interdisciplinary problem-based research that will contribute to the scientific and historical understanding of freedom, racism, gender inequality, and the evolution of education and historical activism in North America. Research resulting from this REU is designed to accomplish four objectives: (1) to facilitate the in-depth involvement of students in field and archival work that will contribute to a focused understanding of the ways in which original scientific and humanistic research are linked, produced, presented and published; additionally, this program will allow student fellows to engage in public outreach focused on pressing real world problems; (2) to introduce undergraduates to the complex ways that race, gender, history, geography, archaeology, and social justice are connected; (3) to train students in research strategies and skills that will identify and explore those connections beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries; (4) to effectively measure the success of the project in achieving its goals, implementing curriculum, and facilitating learning. Ultimately, we aim to examine and contribute to a model of innovative strategies for teaching field-based sciences and for evaluating the educational effectiveness of our approach.

该项目由SBE理事会的本科生研究经验（REU）站点计划资助。因此，它具有科学效益和社会效益，并将研究和教育结合起来。这个多机构项目通过探索美国历史上种族、性别平等和社会正义的重要问题，吸引不同的学生参与实地研究和档案研究，帕克学院（成立于1839年）在俄亥俄州南部证明了这一点。帕克学院于1892年关闭，在53年的时间里，它是导致美国内战及其后果的紧张和不平等的分歧的问题和解决方案的一个缩影。它的创始人是坚定的废奴主义者，他们冒着生命、财产和财产的危险信仰和教导人类平等；也许最有先见之明的是，他们使学院成为全国第一所拥有多种族、男女同校教室的预科学校。这些事实，再加上帕克学院在俄亥俄州克莱蒙特县俄亥俄河上的精确位置，与曾经蓄奴的肯塔基州正好隔河相望，使帕克学院成为全国重要的教育机构，并由废奴主义者推动。直到现在，该学院、它的创始人、支持者和学生还没有成为严肃的学术调查的对象。我们的初步研究和挖掘已经开始揭示这个地标。我们的项目将通过公共历史和考古、地理、社区参与和科学教育，为帕克学院带来期待已久的地方和国家关注。帕克学院REU是历史学家、地理学家和人类学家（考古学和人种学）之间的合作。在三个夏天（2017年，2018年，2019年）45名本科生研究员（15/年）将从事跨学科的基于问题的研究，这将有助于自由，种族主义，性别不平等的科学和历史的理解，并在北美教育和历史行动主义的演变。从这个REU产生的研究旨在实现四个目标：(1)促进学生深入参与实地和档案工作，这将有助于集中理解原始科学和人文研究的联系，制作，呈现和出版方式；此外，该项目还将允许学生参与关注现实世界紧迫问题的公共宣传活动；(2)向本科生介绍种族、性别、历史、地理、考古和社会正义之间的复杂联系；(3)培养学生的研究策略和技能，以识别和探索超越传统学科界限的联系；(4)有效地衡量项目在实现目标、实施课程和促进学习方面的成功程度。最终，我们的目标是研究并为基于领域的科学教学和评估我们方法的教育有效性的创新策略模型做出贡献。