EAGER: Science and Ethics in Informal STEM Contexts

EAGER：非正式 STEM 背景下的科学与伦理

• 批准号: 2040350
• 负责人: Kendall Moore
• 金额: $ 29.99万
• 依托单位: University of Rhode Island
• 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: 2020-12-01 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2040350&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Science; Ethics; Informal; STEM

As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants. This EAGER seeks to explore the state of research ethics in practice in science and, specifically, how ethics plays out in informal STEM institutions, through lenses of multiple cultural traditions and perspectives. By means of producing a documentary, Decolonizing Science, the project will engage scientists and informal STEM educators in considering how informal STEM institutions could re-envision their work to fundamentally embrace inclusivity and belonging. The exploratory process will challenge and inform informal STEM learning institutions and the scientists with whom they work to consider how to navigate contemporary social tensions, support research that values diverse perspectives, and promote decolonizing practices. A significant component of the project includes screenings, workshops, and difficult conversations, in conjunction with informal learning institutions that are already on the front lines of new language and knowledge creation. The project will be a collaborative process as participants’ thoughts, views, and arguments will shape the project from the beginning. Once the film is made, collaboration will continue by engaging science-based practitioners at institutions that serve communities of color and that are invested in working towards greater diversity, inclusivity, equity, and access. Discussions related to the film’s screenings will inform how informal learning institutions can radically re-imagine their work and their spaces, including teaching, curation, research, communication, and knowledge and literature production. The film will explore the origins, creation, and evolution of Western science as an enterprise that can sublimate, marginalize and re-narrativize the practices, procedures, ethics, and contributions of the underrepresented people of color in science. Through focus groups, interviews, and facilitated discussions, this EAGER will document and share the interactions among scientists, informal STEM educators, and filmmakers as they explore how to practice more ethical science in communities of color, on their lands, and within their nations, as well as how science can be portrayed and enacted within informal STEM learning institutions. The project seek to challenge and shift both informal STEM learning institutions and the sciences, through a yet-untested, well-considered, and humane approach to ethical practices of science and their implementation in informal STEM learning institutions through a film and by envisioning possible futures. This project is jointly funded by Directorate for Education and Human Resources/Advancing Informal STEM Learning Program, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Ethical and Responsible Research program and the Directorate for Geosciences Education and Diversity program.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.

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）计划旨在推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括提供多种途径，扩大STEM学习经验的获取和参与，推进非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估，以及发展参与者对深度学习的理解。本次EAGER旨在通过多种文化传统和视角，探索科学实践中的研究伦理状况，特别是伦理如何在非正式的STEM机构中发挥作用。通过制作纪录片《去殖民化科学》，该项目将让科学家和非正式STEM教育工作者参与进来，考虑非正式STEM机构如何重新构想他们的工作，从根本上拥抱包容性和归属感。探索过程将挑战和告知非正式的STEM学习机构及其合作的科学家如何应对当代社会紧张局势，支持重视不同观点的研究，并促进非殖民化实践。该项目的一个重要组成部分包括筛选、研讨会和困难对话，并与已经处于新语言和知识创造前沿的非正式学习机构合作。这个项目将是一个协作的过程，因为参与者的想法、观点和论点将从一开始就塑造这个项目。一旦电影制作完成，合作将继续进行，让服务于有色人种社区的机构的科学从业人员参与进来，并致力于实现更大的多样性、包容性、公平性和准入。与影片放映相关的讨论将告知非正式的学习机构如何从根本上重新想象他们的工作和空间，包括教学、策展、研究、交流、知识和文学创作。这部电影将探索西方科学的起源、创造和演变，作为一项事业，它可以升华、边缘化和重新叙述科学中未被充分代表的有色人种的实践、程序、伦理和贡献。通过焦点小组、访谈和促进讨论，这个EAGER将记录和分享科学家、非正式STEM教育工作者和电影制作人之间的互动，因为他们探索如何在有色人种社区、他们的土地上和他们的国家内实践更多的伦理科学，以及如何在非正式STEM学习机构中描绘和制定科学。该项目旨在挑战和改变非正式的STEM学习机构和科学，通过一部电影和设想可能的未来，采用一种尚未经过检验、经过深思熟虑和人性化的方法来实现科学的伦理实践及其在非正式STEM学习机构中的实施。该项目由教育和人力资源局/推进非正式STEM学习计划、社会、行为和经济科学伦理和负责任研究计划以及地球科学教育和多样性计划共同资助。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。