Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Discourse Analysis of Training Programs

博士论文研究：培训项目的话语分析

• 批准号: 1918240
• 负责人: Gregory Urban
• 金额: $ 2.22万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1918240&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Discourse; Analysis

The anthropological research supported by this award will study programs that are trying to broaden the participation of underrepresented groups. Unlike studies that focus on large-scale social programming, this project will look at the effectiveness of smaller, less costly undertakings that concentrate their efforts on training individuals. The overarching research question is whether this more practical approach, which respects individual choice-making and agency, is as effective as larger scale approaches. This is an important question because all societies must sometimes ask their citizens to respond to changing circumstances. Policy makers need to understand the relationship between individual acts and larger social processes in order to bring about the necessary responses. The research will be undertaken in the United States, using candidate training programs as research sites. The researcher will assess how these programs understand, strategize about, and promote leadership by targeted groups. The researcher will collect data using a combination of ethnographic methods including: participant observation at training sessions; the collection and comparative analysis of discourse collected at programs targeted at different groups; text analysis of training materials; semi-structured interviews with trainers and trainees; and archival research. Findings from the research will contribute to better scientific understanding of how individual agents may or may not produce social transformation.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.

该奖项支持的人类学研究将研究试图扩大代表性不足群体参与的项目。与侧重于大规模社会方案拟订的研究不同，本项目将研究集中努力培训个人的较小、费用较低的企业的效益。 最重要的研究问题是，这种尊重个人选择和代理的更实用的方法是否与更大规模的方法一样有效。这是一个重要的问题，因为所有社会有时都必须要求其公民对不断变化的情况作出反应。决策者需要了解个人行为与更大的社会进程之间的关系，以便作出必要的反应。研究将在美国进行，使用候选人培训计划作为研究地点。研究人员将评估这些计划如何理解，制定战略，并促进目标群体的领导力。研究人员将使用民族志方法收集数据，包括：在培训课程的参与者观察;针对不同群体的课程中收集的话语的收集和比较分析;培训材料的文本分析;与培训师和学员的半结构化访谈;和档案研究。该研究的发现将有助于更好地科学理解个体因素如何可能或可能不会产生社会变革。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。