Collaborative Research: Building Social Infrastructure for Achieving Change at Scale

合作研究：建设社会基础设施以实现大规模变革

• 批准号: 1929320
• 负责人: Donna Riley
• 金额: $ 28.04万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 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: 2019-03-15 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1929320&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Building; Social; Infrastructure

The emergent field of engineering education research is a necessary lever to make systemic and sustainable changes in the way we educate and develop engineers to meet current and future national priorities and global challenges. There is a great deal of variation in the strength of the social infrastructure used by engineering education researchers to collaborate and build research projects of sufficient depth and diversity for true systemic change. In this project, relative social infrastructure strength is grouped as follows: those researchers who are connected to a department of engineering education; those who are connected to a center or other non-department, formalized group on their campus; and those who have neither connection. Any combination of access types may be present on a single campus. The purpose of this project is to discover and implement evidence-based social infrastructure elements that meet the needs of the third group while maintaining the integrity of the department- and center-based infrastructure. These researchers are often located in their universities in capacities that are highly intertwined with the practice of engineering education; finding better ways to network and support them creates stronger ties between research and practice, facilitating systemic and lasting change. Using the social movement organizing methodology of relational meetings, the investigators will conduct a series of interviews with engineering education researchers who are connected with centers or departments those who are not, and their practitioner colleagues to identify areas of common concern, resources each can contribute to change agent networks, and opportunities for strategic intervention around which the engineering education change movement can build power. Through two phases of the research root cause analysis will be applied to the problems of faculty reward structures and diversity in engineering; working at the level of structural economic forces in higher education in the first case, and racism, sexism, ableism, and other forms of structural inequality in the second case, will guide strategies and interventions to produce lasting, significant change and address problems at their source. This approach will further the research on change in engineering education by understanding faculty behavior as grounded not only in personal motivation and institutional reward structures but also in current economic and policy frameworks for higher education. The results of this project will identify mechanisms to strengthen engineering education networks. Of particular importance are those researchers currently working in the field who are not strongly connected to those networks. Broad-based and widespread change will occur through modifications to communities' infrastructure and leadership development that support both the engineering education researchers and practitioners.

工程教育研究的新兴领域是一个必要的杠杆，使我们教育和发展工程师的方式系统和可持续的变化，以满足当前和未来的国家优先事项和全球挑战。工程教育研究人员所使用的社会基础设施的强度有很大的变化，以合作和建立足够的深度和多样性的研究项目，真正的系统性变化。在这个项目中，相对社会基础设施的力量分为如下几类：那些与工程教育部门有联系的研究人员;那些与中心或其他非部门，正规化的校园团体有联系的研究人员;以及那些既没有联系的研究人员。访问类型的任何组合都可能出现在一个校园中。该项目的目的是发现和实施以证据为基础的社会基础设施要素，满足第三群体的需求，同时保持部门和中心基础设施的完整性。这些研究人员通常位于他们的大学，其能力与工程教育的实践高度交织在一起;找到更好的方法来建立网络并支持他们，从而在研究与实践之间建立更紧密的联系，促进系统和持久的变革。使用关系会议的社会运动组织方法，调查人员将与工程教育研究人员进行一系列访谈，这些研究人员与中心或部门有联系，他们的从业者同事没有，以确定共同关注的领域，每个资源都可以为变革代理网络做出贡献，以及工程教育变革运动可以建立力量的战略干预机会。通过研究的两个阶段，根本原因分析将应用于教师奖励结构和工程多样性的问题;在第一种情况下，在高等教育的结构性经济力量的水平上工作，在第二种情况下，种族主义，性别歧视，能力歧视和其他形式的结构性不平等，将指导战略和干预措施，以产生持久的，重大的变化，并从源头上解决问题。这种方法将进一步了解教师的行为，不仅在个人动机和机构的奖励结构，而且在当前的经济和政策框架高等教育的基础上，在工程教育的变化的研究。该项目的成果将确定加强工程教育网络的机制。特别重要的是那些目前在该领域工作的研究人员，他们与这些网络没有很强的联系。通过修改社区的基础设施和领导力发展，支持工程教育研究人员和从业人员，将发生基础广泛和广泛的变化。