A Workshop to Broaden Participation in Engineering by Creating Cultures of Inclusion

通过创建包容性文化扩大工程参与的研讨会

• 批准号: 1946840
• 负责人: Elizabeth Holloway
• 金额: $ 5万
• 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: 2019-09-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1946840&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Broaden; Participation; Engineering; Creating

This project will bring together researchers and practitioners in engineering education and other relevant fields for a workshop that is intended to a) set a future research agenda around creating cultures of inclusion in engineering classrooms, departments, centers, schools, and colleges, and b) create a roadmap of evidence-based promising practices, connected to the research agenda, that promote inclusivity. The future research agenda will highlight the knowledge gaps that exist with regard to cultures of inclusion and can function as a guide for researchers in shaping their future research plans. In turn, the roadmap of promising practices that promote inclusivity will guide practitioners and administrators in making research-informed decisions to create cultures of inclusion in engineering education settings. Longer term, as additional studies from the research agenda are completed, the set of promising practices can be expanded. As promising practices are implemented in various contexts and settings, feedback can be used to inform new/future questions and gaps in the research agenda. In this way, engineering colleges and schools can deliberately create cultures of inclusion, which will promote the inclusion, success, and graduation of more students from diverse backgrounds. Additionally, majority students will gain a better understanding of inclusive environments, and their beneficial nature.Efforts to diversify engineering have been ongoing for decades, and yet, the engineering profession remains predominately white and male. There is an opportunity cost associated with this - only with the full participation of a full set of diverse individuals can the profession solve the complex and challenging societal problems of today and of the future (Wulf, 2001). Few efforts have focused on changing the culture of classrooms, departments, schools, and colleges such that all people are included and can thrive in the environment. The development of a culture of inclusion is critically important for the success of diverse groups, such as underrepresented minorities (African Americans/Blacks, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders), women, non-gender binary persons, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, first generation college students, and low socio-economic status students. Efforts to create an inclusive culture result in an organization where everyone is valued for the entirety of what they bring. To make progress on creating inclusive cultures in engineering, where everyone, regardless of their identities, their differences in experiences, and their differences in beliefs, can be successful and thrive, there is a need to transform culture to make diversity, equity, and inclusion a priority in engineering education. A facilitated workshop that brings together practitioners of inclusive environments, researchers in engineering education, social sciences, inclusion, culture, and change theory will be a focused effort in the engineering community that will create a research agenda for cultures of inclusion that can be used to guide future research in this area and will produce a set of research-based promising practices that promote inclusivity that can be used immediately.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.

该项目将汇集工程教育和其他相关领域的研究人员和从业人员，旨在a）围绕在工程教室，部门，中心，学校和学院中创造包容性文化制定未来的研究议程，以及B）创建基于证据的有前途的实践路线图，连接到研究议程，促进包容性。 未来的研究议程将突出在包容性文化方面存在的知识差距，并可作为研究人员制定未来研究计划的指南。 反过来，促进包容性的有前途的实践路线图将指导从业者和管理人员做出研究知情的决策，以在工程教育环境中创造包容性文化。 从长远来看，随着研究议程中的其他研究的完成，这套有希望的做法可以扩大。 随着有希望的做法在各种背景和环境中得到实施，反馈可用于为研究议程中新的/未来的问题和差距提供信息。 通过这种方式，工程学院和学校可以有意识地创造包容性文化，这将促进更多来自不同背景的学生的包容，成功和毕业。 此外，大多数学生将获得包容性的环境，其有益的性质有更好的理解。努力多样化工程已经持续了几十年，然而，工程专业仍然主要是白色和男性。 与此相关的是一种机会成本-只有在一整套不同的个人充分参与的情况下，这一职业才能解决当今和未来复杂和具有挑战性的社会问题（Wulf，2001年）。 很少有努力集中在改变教室，部门，学校和学院的文化，使所有的人都包括在内，并能在环境中茁壮成长。包容性文化的发展对于不同群体的成功至关重要，例如代表性不足的少数群体（非裔美国人/黑人，西班牙裔美国人，美洲印第安人，阿拉斯加原住民，夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民），妇女，非性别二元人群，残疾人，LGBTQ+社区成员，第一代大学生和社会经济地位低的学生。努力创造一种包容性的文化，使组织中的每个人都因其所带来的一切而受到重视。 为了在工程领域创造包容性文化方面取得进展，每个人，无论他们的身份，他们的经验差异，以及他们的信仰差异，都可以成功和茁壮成长，有必要改变文化，使多样性，公平和包容性成为工程教育的优先事项。 一个促进讲习班，汇集了包容性环境的从业人员，工程教育，社会科学，包容性，文化，和变革理论将是工程界的一个重点工作，将为包容性文化创建一个研究议程，可用于指导该领域的未来研究，并将产生一系列研究-该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。