Developing a Network to Coordinate Research on Equity Practices and Cultures in STEM Maker Education

建立网络来协调 STEM 创客教育中的公平实践和文化研究

• 批准号: 2005898
• 负责人: Eli Tucker-Raymond
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston 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: 2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2005898&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Network; Coordinate; Research; Equity

The goal of the National Science Foundation’s Research Coordination Network (RCN) program is to advance a field or create new directions in research or education by supporting groups of investigators to communicate and coordinate their research, training and educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, geographic and international boundaries. This RCN will bring together scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of equity and interdisciplinary making in STEM education. Making is a culture that emphasizes interest-driven learning by doing within an informal, peer-led and creative social environment. Hundreds of maker spaces and maker-oriented classroom pedagogies have developed across the country. Maker spaces often include digital technologies such as computer design, 3-D printers, and laser cutters, but may also include traditional crafts or a variety of artist-driven creations. The driving purpose of the project is to collectively broaden STEM-focused maker participation in the United States through pursuing common research questions, sharing resources, and incubating emergent inquiry and knowledge across multiple working sites of practice. The network aims to build capacity for research and knowledge, building in consequential and far-reaching mechanisms to leverage combined efforts of a core group of scholars, practitioners, and an extended network of formal and informal education partners in urban and rural sites serving people from groups underrepresented in STEM. Maker learning spaces can be particularly fruitful spaces for STEM learning toward equity because they foster interest-driven, collective, and community-oriented learning in making for social and community change. The network will be led by a team of multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary researchers from different geographic regions of the United States and guided by a steering committee of prominent researchers and practitioners in making and equity will convene to facilitate network activities. Equitable processes are rooted in a commitment to understand and build on the skills, practices, values, and knowledge of communities marginalized in STEM. The research network aims to fill in gaps in current understandings about making and equity, including the many ways different projects define equity and STEM in making. The project will survey the existing research terrain to develop a dynamic and cohesive understanding of making that connects to learners' STEM ideas, communities, and historical ways of making. Additionally, the network will collaboratively develop central research questions for network partners. The network will create a repository for ethical and promising practices in community-based research and aggregate data across sites, among other activities. The network will support collaboration across a multiplicity of making spaces, research institutions, and community organizations throughout the country to share data, methodologies, ways of connecting to local communities and approaches to robust integration of STEM skills and practices. Project impacts will include new research partnerships, a dissemination hub for research related to making and equity, professional development for researchers and practitioners, and leveraging collective research findings about making values and practices to improve approaches to STEM-rich making integration in informal learning environments. The project is funded by NSF's Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which supports innovative research, approaches, and resources for use in a variety of settings. 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 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.

美国国家科学基金会的研究协调网络（RCN）计划的目标是通过支持研究人员团体跨学科、组织、地理和国际边界的交流和协调他们的研究、培训和教育活动，来推进一个领域或创造新的研究或教育方向。这个RCN将汇集学者和从业者在公平和跨学科的STEM教育的交叉点工作。制作是一种文化，强调在非正式的、同伴主导的、创造性的社会环境中通过实践来学习兴趣。数以百计的创客空间和以创客为导向的课堂教学在全国各地发展起来。创客空间通常包括数字技术，如计算机设计、3d打印机和激光切割机，但也可能包括传统工艺或各种艺术家驱动的创作。该项目的驱动目的是通过追求共同的研究问题，共享资源，以及跨多个实践工作场所孵化新兴的探究和知识，共同扩大美国stem制造商的参与。该网络旨在建设研究和知识能力，建立影响深远的机制，以利用学者、实践者组成的核心小组以及城市和农村地区正式和非正式教育合作伙伴组成的扩展网络的共同努力，为STEM中代表性不足的群体提供服务。创客学习空间可以成为STEM平等学习的特别富有成效的空间，因为它们在促进社会和社区变革的过程中促进了兴趣驱动、集体和面向社区的学习。该网络将由一个由来自美国不同地理区域的多机构和多学科研究人员组成的小组领导，并由一个由杰出的研究人员和从业人员组成的指导委员会指导，该委员会将召开会议，促进网络活动。公平进程的基础是承诺理解和利用STEM边缘化社区的技能、实践、价值观和知识。该研究网络旨在填补目前对制造和公平的理解空白，包括不同项目定义公平和STEM在制造中的许多方式。该项目将调查现有的研究领域，以发展一种动态的、有凝聚力的对制造的理解，将学习者的STEM思想、社区和历史的制造方式联系起来。此外，该网络将为网络伙伴合作开发中心研究问题。除其他活动外，该网络将为基于社区的研究和跨站点汇总数据的道德和有前途的做法建立一个资料库。该网络将支持全国多个制作空间、研究机构和社区组织之间的协作，以共享数据、方法、与当地社区的联系方式以及将STEM技能和实践强有力地整合在一起的方法。项目影响将包括建立新的研究伙伴关系、建立与制造和公平相关的研究传播中心、促进研究人员和从业人员的专业发展，以及利用关于制造价值观和实践的集体研究成果，改进在非正式学习环境中整合stem丰富的制造方法。该项目由美国国家科学基金会推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划支持在各种环境中使用的创新研究、方法和资源。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）项目资助了用于各种环境的创新研究、方法和资源。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

项目成果

Community Making: An Expansive View of Curriculum

• DOI: 10.46303/jcsr.2021.8
• 发表时间: 2021-06
• 作者: Verónica Oguilve;W. Wen;E. Bowen;Yousra Abourehab;Amanda Bermudez;Elizabeth Gaxiola;Jill Castek