Workshop on Diversifying and Deepening Engagement and Learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM): Bringing Together Dutch and U.S. Scholars

这次关于STEM多元化和深化参与和学习的研讨会将汇集来自美国和荷兰的研究人员，交流思想，促进合作。在国际上，人们普遍认识到，深入参与和了解STEM的人太少了。这种狭隘的接触对全球个人的前景产生了负面影响。使深入参与STEM的儿童和年轻人多样化，并为他们提供深入学习STEM的良好支持机会，将通过积极影响研究和开发来促进STEM的进步。思想、视角、经验和准备质量的多样性提高了STEM研究的创新性和质量。研讨会及其产品将通过提高学者对相关研究的认识，使参与和学习多样化和深化，并在对这些问题有共同兴趣和承诺的研究人员之间建立更紧密的联系，来推进STEM教育。本次研讨会引发的STEM教育努力将通过提高个人生活质量和使公众更广泛地参与STEM为基础的民主进程，促进国家健康、繁荣和福利。研讨会邀请了一批来自美国和荷兰的有影响力的学者，他们的工作为学校内外的STEM教育的创新研究和发展做出了贡献。研讨会的主题是使深入参与STEM的年轻人多样化的关键目标，包括在全球和各国历史上代表性不足的群体，同时也促进更深入的STEM学习。在整个研讨会中，参与者将研究两个问题：(1)促进和阻碍STEM参与和学习的关键社会、文化和系统背景是什么？(2)研究人员如何更好地理解这些问题，教育工作者如何更好地解决这些问题？跨美国和荷兰国家背景的比较工作将允许对问题进行双向说明，否则从单一国家的角度来看，这些问题可能只是给定的或不可避免的。与会的学者将通过非正式和正式的学习机会，探讨支持和保持年轻人对STEM的兴趣、认同和深度学习的挑战和机遇。研讨会的一个重要成果将是一份白皮书，该白皮书将免费并广泛地提供给STEM教育界和公众。白皮书将总结现有文献和讨论，框架，并建议进一步研究。构建和最终确定白皮书的过程将集中研讨会参与者的注意力，并使理论和研究的主体更加清晰，从而为教育行动和未来的研究提供信息。此外，在研讨会期间形成的兴趣小组将考虑追求可以为STEM教育界提供信息的其他产品，例如期刊特刊，编辑卷，研究和实践简报或其他合作。

This workshop on Diversifying and Deepening Engagement and Learning in STEM will bring together researchers from the United States and the Netherlands to exchange ideas and foster collaboration. Internationally, there is broad recognition that far too narrow a segment of the population is deeply engaged with and knowledgeable about STEM. This narrow engagement negatively affects the prospects of individuals across the globe. Diversifying the pool of children and young adults deeply engaged with STEM, and providing them with well-supported opportunities for deeper learning in STEM, will promote the progress of STEM by positively impacting research and development. Diversity of thought, perspective, experience and quality of preparation improve innovation and the quality of STEM research. The workshop and its products will advance STEM education by enhancing scholars' knowledge of relevant research on diversifying and deepening engagement and learning, and by creating stronger ties among researchers with common interests in and commitment to these issues. STEM education efforts sparked by this workshop will advance national health, prosperity, and welfare by improving individuals' quality of life and enabling broader public participation in democratic processes that are informed by STEM. The workshop involves a select group of influential scholars from the U.S. and Netherlands whose work contributes to innovative research and development on STEM education both within and beyond schools. The workshop's theme refers to the key goal of diversifying the pool of young people deeply engaged with STEM, including groups historically underrepresented globally and in each nation, while also fostering deeper STEM learning. Throughout the workshop, participants will examine two questions: (1) What are the key social, cultural, and systemic contexts that facilitate and impede broadening STEM participation and learning? (2) How might researchers better understand them, and educators better address them? Comparative work across the U.S. and Netherlands national contexts will allow for bidirectional illumination of issues that might otherwise appear to be merely given or inevitable when examined from a single national standpoint. Gathered scholars will explore the challenges and opportunities for supporting and sustaining interest in, identification with, and deep learning of STEM among young people, through informal and formal learning opportunities. A key outcome of the workshop will be a white paper made freely and widely available to the STEM education community and the general public. The white paper will summarize existing literature and the discussion, framings, and suggestions for further research. The process of constructing and finalizing the white paper will focus the attention of participants in the workshop, and result in greater clarity about the body of theory and research that can inform educational action and future research. In addition, interest groups that form during the workshop will consider pursuing additional products that can inform the STEM education community, such as a journal special issue, an edited volume, research and practice briefs, or other collaborations.