Doctoral Dissertation Research: Security and Preparedness in U.S. Public Schools

安全是美国公立学校面临的最大挑战之一。许多学校不知疲倦地工作，以满足具有挑战性的需求，培养空间，不仅是积极的学习环境，但也是所有学校社区成员的安全区。由于学校的安全关切各不相同，它们对安全的概念以及社区如何为未来的安全威胁做好最好的准备也各不相同。这个项目，它提供资金的研究生在人类学的实证，科学的数据收集和分析方法的培训，将调查的作用，生活经验在塑造未来的学校安全举措在美国公立学校。培养学校安全问题的更动态的理解，这个项目将提供更好的方式，其中安全问题的影响，在本地化context.This博士论文的研究项目学校社区的日常工作的理解探讨如何过去的经验塑造在公立学校的安全文化的理解。通过使用访谈，焦点小组，观察和档案研究这个比较项目将探讨如何安全问题反映在学校安全措施的实施，因为他们在两所公立高中位于佛罗里达州。该项目将利用混合方法（行为观察，访谈，档案分析和焦点小组），人种学调查学校社区如何制定当地的概念准备在学校安全措施的发展。数据应按主题编码和分析，以确定如何在不同的文化背景下开发和实施学校安全举措，安全话语和安全模拟练习的观点。通过调查学校安全的做法，因为他们在历史上也成为过去的经验和生活的现实，这个项目移动安全的研究超越了国家或国家的学校安全政策的研究，到一个更地方的情况下，学校安全问题的生活和经验。该项目将对安全理论和围绕学校背景下的准备工作的人类学辩论做出重大贡献。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。

Security is one of the biggest challenges American public schools face today. Many schools work tirelessly to meet the challenging demand to cultivate spaces that are not only positive learning environments but are also zones of safety for all school community members. As schools differ in their security concerns, they also differ in their conceptions of safety and how their community can best prepare for future security threats. This project, which provides funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, will investigate the role that lived experience plays in shaping the future of school safety initiatives in American public schools. Cultivating a more dynamic understanding of school safety concerns, this project will provide greater understanding of the ways in which security concerns impact the day-to-day work of school communities in a localized context.This doctoral dissertation research project examines how past experiences shape cultural understandings of security in public schools. Through the use of interviews, focus groups, observations, and archival research this comparative project will explore how security concerns are reflected in the implementation of school safety initiatives as they operate in two public high schools located in the state of Florida. This project will utilize a mixed methods approach (behavioral observation, interviews, archival analysis, and focus groups), to ethnographically investigate how school communities formulate local notions of preparedness in the development of school safety initiatives. Data with be thematically coded and analyzed to ascertain how perspectives on school safety initiatives, safety discourse, and safety simulation exercises are developed and implemented in varying cultural contexts. By investigating practices of school safety as they have historically also become related to past experiences and lived realities, this project moves studies of security beyond the study of state or national school safety policy, to a more local context where school safety concerns are lived and experienced. This project will make significant contributions to theories of security, and anthropological debates around preparedness in the school context.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.