Doctoral Dissertation Research: Vocational Education, Economic Development, and Socioeconomic Mobility

博士论文研究：职业教育、经济发展和社会经济流动性

• 批准号: 2115916
• 负责人: Diane Austin
• 金额: $ 2.33万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2115916&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Vocational; Education

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). Vocational education, a descendant of industrial education, plays a key role in the approaches of some U.S. states to economic development. Advocates of vocational education argue that it provides a trained workforce for industry and a path to economic mobility for individuals. Critics question whether the kinds of vocational opportunities offered continue, as they did in the early twentieth century, to be concentrated low-paying jobs, thereby reinforcing inequalities and stifling socioeconomic mobility. This doctoral dissertation research project explores how ideologies about vocational education have changed, and what impact those changes have on economic development. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, data and findings will be shared with economic development professionals, chambers of commerce, and vocational education and workforce development administrators. Workshops on social science literacy will be developed in cooperation with the vocational education programs at an HBCU, broadening the participation of underrepresented groups in science.Through a study of economic opportunity zones in Lowcountry South Carolina, this project investigates a) the foundations of ideological formation in late nineteenth and early twentieth century industrial education; and b) whether those ideologies have been transformed, and if so how, in contemporary vocational education and workforce development policies and programs. Methods include semi-structured interviews, life history interviews, and participant observation with Lowcountry residents who are involved with vocational education programs and economic development initiatives. The linguistic anthropological techniques of discourse and narrative analysis will be employed to evaluate and assess ideological formation and transformation. The project contributes to educational anthropology, political economic theories about the drivers of and obstacles to development, and linguistic anthropological theories about language ideologies.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.

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。职业教育是工业教育的后代，在美国一些州的经济发展道路上起着关键作用。职业教育的倡导者认为，它为工业提供了训练有素的劳动力，为个人提供了一条经济流动的道路。批评者质疑，提供的职业机会是否会继续像世纪初那样集中在低薪工作上，从而加剧不平等，抑制社会经济流动性。本博士论文研究项目探讨了职业教育的意识形态如何变化，以及这些变化对经济发展的影响。除了为培训人类学研究生提供资金外，还将与经济发展专业人员、商会、职业教育和劳动力发展管理人员分享数据和调查结果。通过对南卡罗来纳州低地经济机会区的研究，本项目调查了a）19世纪末和20世纪初世纪工业教育中意识形态形成的基础;以及B）在当代职业教育和劳动力发展政策和计划中，这些意识形态是否已经转变，如果已经转变，是如何转变的。方法包括半结构化访谈，生活史访谈，并与低地居民参与职业教育计划和经济发展计划的参与观察。语言人类学的话语和叙事分析技术将被用来评估和评估意识形态的形成和转变。该项目对教育人类学、关于发展的驱动力和障碍的政治经济学理论以及关于语言意识形态的语言人类学理论做出了贡献。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。