Collaborative Research: Place-based Research to Understand Youth Development: Integrating Dynamic and Culturally-Informed Models

该奖项将支持在宾夕法尼亚州立大学举办的一个为期两天的研讨会，该研讨会将汇集一个多学科的学者小组，以提高对人们生活的地方如何影响他们的社会、情感和认知发展的理解。科学证据表明，社区和其他“活动空间”--如学校、工作场所和社会机构--是如何影响发展的。这个研讨会的目的是利用这些证据来帮助建立一个全面的、以地点为基础的科学。广义地说，以地点为基础的寿命发展科学将认识到，不同的居住社区和活动空间可能会使儿童、青年和家庭面临不同的资源和风险。这些差异对发展具有重要影响。此外，迫切需要融合种族、民族和文化的跨学科观点，以推动以地点为基础的科学，这对日益多样化的美国社会是相关和有意义的。该讲习班将加强理论和概念框架，以支持今后对整个生命周期内的发展进行的基于地点的研究。这样的研究可以解决与种族隔离、不平等和积极发展相关的重要社会问题。本研讨会将允许一组学者合作(1)整合社区和活动空间研究的现有理论基础，并(2)批判性地分析这些理论基础如何将记录种族、民族和文化多样性的科学证据纳入整个生命周期的发展过程。此外，研讨会参与者将就创新、动态、多层次的方法提出一套建议，以反映研讨会取得的理论和概念上的进展。最后，参与者将解决社区和活动空间研究中的长期方法挑战。研讨会期间的活动将以一系列研究问题和建议的方法结束，这些问题和建议将建立下一个十年的研究议程。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support a two-day workshop at The Pennsylvania State University, which will bring together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to improve understanding of how the places people live in influence their social, emotional, and cognitive development. Scientific evidence has documented how neighborhoods and other "activity spaces"--such as schools, workplaces, and social institutions--influence development. The aim of this workshop is to use this evidence to help build a comprehensive, place-based science. Broadly speaking, a place-based science of lifespan development will recognize that different residential neighborhoods and activity spaces might expose children, youth, and families to different resources and risks. These differences have important implications for development. In addition, there is a critical need to incorporate transdisciplinary perspectives on race, ethnicity, and culture to advance a place-based science that is relevant and meaningful for an increasingly diverse U.S. society. This workshop will enhance the theoretical and conceptual frameworks that will support future place-based research on development across the lifespan. Such research can address important societal issues related to segregation, inequality, and positive development.This workshop will allow a group of scholars to work together to (1) integrate existing theoretical foundations of neighborhood and activity space research and (2) critically analyze how these theoretical foundations can incorporate scientific evidence that has documented racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity in developmental processes across the lifespan. Additionally, workshop participants will advance a set of recommendations on innovative, dynamic, multi-level approaches that reflect theoretical and conceptual advances made in the workshop. Finally, the participants will address long-term methodological challenges in neighborhood and activity space research. The activities during the workshop will culminate with a set of research questions and suggested approaches that will establish the next decade's research agenda.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.