Workshop on the Substance of STEM Education: Addressing the Gap Between Foundational, Meta, and Humanistic Knowledge

STEM 教育实质研讨会：解决基础知识、元知识和人文知识之间的差距

• 批准号: 1935479
• 负责人: Ariel Anbar
• 金额: $ 9.89万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1935479&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Substance; STEM; Education; Addressing

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR), this project aims to serve the national interest by developing a vision for STEM education that will prepare students for emerging technical and societal challenges. This project will convene discussions to explore current and future contexts for STEM education. Building off these discussions, the project will envision models for future STEM education. The project will consider STEM education from a perspective that integrates foundational knowledge (to know), meta-knowledge (to act), and humanistic knowledge (to value). The investigators expect that this perspective will provide better alignment of STEM education with technical and societal challenges than a knowledge-centric education. The project focuses on two gaps in current STEM education models. The first is the gap between the need for students to learn STEM concepts and the need for them to develop the creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills needed for ethical decision-making and action. The second gap occurs because STEM courses and degree programs continue to reside within traditional STEM disciplinary boundaries, even as our most pressing problems require interdisciplinary work. The project's goal is to collaboratively establish a vision for the future of STEM education and develop a well-articulated framework that describes this future. This project will build a virtual community of practice that will meet in person to articulate a framework for the future of STEM education with potential to achieve the project vision. The pre-workshop activities will consist of a series of open internet-based discussions featuring invited expert keynotes. The objective of the discussion includes: (1) to build a community of practice; (2) to acquaint participants with the motivation, context, and key concepts of the workshop; and (3) to envision and converge on the curricular types, learner personas, and agenda for the workshop. Workshop participants will be selected from this community of practice, based on their expertise, knowledge, engagement, and leadership in the field. At the two-day, studio-format workshop, approximately 50 expert participants will engage in an iterative set of facilitated design-based exercises to develop prototype curricula. Following the workshop, the developed curricula will be openly available to the wider community of practice, with the aim of fostering an emergent network that will continue to collaboratively develop and iterate content and resources. If successful, the framework, curricula, and community of practice developed through this project has the potential to provide a pathway for evolving undergraduate STEM education to better meet rapidly emerging economic, environmental, and societal challenges.The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. This project is within the Engaged Student Learning track, which supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.

在 NSF 改善本科生 STEM 教育计划：教育和人力资源（IUSE：EHR）的支持下，该项目旨在通过制定 STEM 教育愿景来服务国家利益，让学生为应对新出现的技术和社会挑战做好准备。该项目将召开讨论，探讨 STEM 教育当前和未来的背景。 在这些讨论的基础上，该项目将为未来的 STEM 教育设想模型。该项目将从整合基础知识（知识）、元知识（行动）和人文知识（价值）的角度来考虑STEM教育。 研究人员预计，与以知识为中心的教育相比，这种观点将使 STEM 教育与技术和社会挑战更好地结合起来。该项目重点关注当前 STEM 教育模式的两个差距。首先是学生学习 STEM 概念的需求与培养道德决策和行动所需的创造力、批判性思维和解决问题的技能之间的差距。第二个差距的出现是因为 STEM 课程和学位课程仍然停留在传统的 STEM 学科界限内，尽管我们最紧迫的问题需要跨学科的工作。该项目的目标是共同制定 STEM 教育的未来愿景，并开发一个描述这一未来的清晰框架。 该项目将建立一个虚拟实践社区，该社区将亲自开会，阐明未来 STEM 教育的框架，并有可能实现项目愿景。研讨会前的活动将包括一系列公开的互联网讨论，其中包括特邀专家的主题演讲。讨论的目标包括：（1）建立实践社区； (2) 让参与者熟悉研讨会的动机、背景和关键概念； (3) 设想并集中讨论研讨会的课程类型、学习者角色和议程。研讨会参与者将根据他们在该领域的专业知识、知识、参与度和领导力从这个实践社区中选出。在为期两天的工作室形式的研讨会上，大约 50 名专家参与者将参与一系列基于设计的迭代练习，以开发原型课程。研讨会结束后，开发的课程将向更广泛的实践社区开放，旨在培育一个新兴网络，继续协作开发和迭代内容和资源。如果成功，通过该项目开发的框架、课程和实践社区有可能为本科生 STEM 教育的发展提供一条途径，以更好地应对迅速出现的经济、环境和社会挑战。NSF IUSE：EHR 计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生 STEM 教育的有效性。该项目属于参与学生学习轨道，支持有前途的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。