Collaborative Research: Cool Science: Art as a Vehicle for Intergenerational Learning

合作研究：酷科学：艺术作为代际学习的载体

• 批准号: 1906810
• 负责人: Steven Schrock
• 金额: $ 79.93万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1906810&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Cool; Science; Art

As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program funds innovative research, approaches and resources for use in a variety of settings. This program will derive knowledge on extreme weather and its concepts to be shared with youth in the Boston and Kansas City areas. Subsequently, the youth will share this knowledge by displaying it as art work on the rapid transit systems. The art projects will culminate in broad-based exhibition at the end of each group's sessions. The project will involve 200 youth per region resulting in an impact of 1000 youth per year, 80 adult mentors and 20,000 adult transportation riders in learning about extreme weather concepts. Participant organizations are the University of Mass-Boston, University of Mass-Lowell, The Massachusetts College of Art, the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., and the Goodman Research Group Inc.The goals of this project are to bring the topic of extreme weather to the foreground by educating youth and in turn having them educate a selected group of adults that use the rapid transit system. Groups of youths will learn about the topic through a series of meetings with mentors who are experts on the issues around extreme weather. The youth will derive their own art-works with their interpretation. These art-works will be displayed on the rapid transit systems in New England (Merrimack Valley and Worcester regions) and the Mid-West (Topeka and Kansas City areas). Using a quasi-experimental mixed methodology (demographics, bus ridership, initial level of science awareness, and interest) the goal is to understand science learning outcomes associated with the creation and public display of youth art. Research questions of importance in this regard are 1. In what ways does blending art with the science enhance youth learning about extreme weather concepts? 2. To what extent does youth art support adult learning of science? and 3. How does regional context affect learning about extreme weather?Broader impacts will result from the youth diversity as well as the diversity of riders of the rapid transit systems where the art of extreme weather is displayed.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.

作为加强非正式环境中学习的总体战略的一部分，推进非正式 STEM 学习 (AISL) 计划资助创新研究、方法和资源，以供在各种环境中使用。该计划将获得有关极端天气及其概念的知识，并与波士顿和堪萨斯城地区的年轻人分享。随后，年轻人将通过在快速交通系统上将其作为艺术品展示来分享这些知识。在每个小组的会议结束时，艺术项目将在广泛的展览中达到高潮。该项目将涉及每个地区 200 名青少年，每年影响 1000 名青少年、80 名成人导师和 20,000 名成人交通乘客学习极端天气概念。参与组织包括马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校、马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校、马萨诸塞州艺术学院、堪萨斯大学研究中心公司和古德曼研究集团公司。该项目的目标是通过教育青少年，然后让他们教育选定的使用快速交通系统的成年人群体，将极端天气的话题带到前台。青少年团体将通过与极端天气问题专家导师的一系列会议来了解该主题。年轻人将用他们的诠释衍生出属于他们自己的艺术作品。这些艺术品将在新英格兰（梅里马克谷和伍斯特地区）和中西部（托皮卡和堪萨斯城地区）的快速交通系统上展出。使用准实验混合方法（人口统计、公交车乘客量、科学意识的初始水平和兴趣），目标是了解与青年艺术创作和公开展示相关的科学学习成果。这方面的重要研究问题是： 1. 艺术与科学的融合如何增强青少年对极端天气概念的了解？ 2. 青少年艺术在多大程度上支持成人的科学学习？ 3. 区域背景如何影响对极端天气的了解？年轻人的多样性以及展示极端天气艺术的快速交通系统乘客的多样性将产生更广泛的影响。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。