Collaborative Research: GP-IN: Connected to Earth: Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange for Advancing Earth Science Learning

合作研究：GP-IN：连接地球：跨文化知识交流促进地球科学学习

• 批准号: 2119008
• 负责人: Tiziana Vanorio
• 金额: $ 4.74万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 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 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2119008&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; GP; Connected; Earth

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Tomorrow’s society will need to address issues of conserving and protecting natural resources like soil and water, deal with the rising threat of climate change and associated issues, and mitigate hazards like flooding, landslides, and coastal storms. No single disciplinary approach can combat these issues alone. For this there needs to be engagement with people from diverse cultural backgrounds, and incorporation of indigenous perspectives and different ways of teaching, learning, and knowing in the K-16 curriculum so future generations can address these challenges equitably and sustainably. This project will bring together a community of K-12 teachers, educators, geoscientists, undergraduate students from minoritized backgrounds, and cultural knowledge keepers and resource managers from Hawaii and Bad River and Red Cliff tribal communities in Wisconsin. With these partners, the PIs plan to develop geosciences curriculum and lesson plans for K-16 classrooms tied to places with scientific and cultural significance, and are relevant to learners’ interests, cultural backgrounds, lived experiences, and the needs of the local communities. Students participating in this project will take ownership of their own education, and will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to address tomorrow’s societal issues, and to fill workforce needs in Tribal, State, and Federal resource management and conservation, sustainability, environmental consulting, science communication, and science education, among other fields. This project will create a cross-cultural geoscience learning ecosystem providing experiential learning activities at sites with both cultural and scientific significance in Hawaii and on Tribal lands in Wisconsin. The investigators in collaboration with Tribal elders and knowledge keepers, will lead professional development activities for pre- and in-service educators to support them in developing curriculum aligned with NGSS Earth Sciences and Science and Engineering Practices built upon local knowledge and Earth science concepts and addressing real-world issues. This project will identify effective practices for as well as barriers to developing and implementing place-based, socially and culturally relevant STEM curriculum. Specifically the project will: 1) recruit, empower, and retain students from diverse backgrounds, especially Native American/Native Hawaiian students, in the environmental and geosciences; 2) foster a sense of place and “connection to Earth” for students living in places far from those where their cultures are rooted, and for “low-context” students, whose cultures may not be deeply associated with place; 3) support teachers to develop reusable and sustainable relevant, place-based curriculum aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS); and 4) develop sense of place remotely using virtual learning environments.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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》的全部或部分资助（公共法117-2）。Tomorrow的社会将需要解决保护和保护诸如泥土和水之类的自然资源，应对气候变化和相关问题的威胁，以及减轻诸如洪水，降落滑坡和沿海风暴等危害的问题。没有任何纪律方法可以单独解决这些问题。为此，需要与来自不同文化背景的人们进行互动，土著观点的影响以及在K-16课程中的不同教学，学习和认识的方式，以便子孙后代可以平等和可持续地解决这些挑战。该项目将汇集一个由K-12教师，教育者，地球科学家，来自少数背景的本科生以及来自夏威夷，巴德河和威斯康星州的红色悬崖部落社区的文化知识管理员和资源经理的社区。在这些合作伙伴的情况下，PIS计划为与具有科学和文化意义的地方相关的K-16教室制定地球科学课程和课程计划，并且与学习者的利益，文化背景，现场经验以及当地社区的需求有关。参加该项目的学生将拥有自己的教育所有权，并将获得解决明天社会问题所需的知识和技能，并满足部落，州和联邦资源管理和咨询，可持续性，环境咨询，科学沟通和科学教育的劳动力需求，以及其他领域。该项目将创建一个跨文化地球科学学习生态系统，在夏威夷和威斯康星州的部落土地上提供具有文化和科学意义的网站的专家学习活动。调查人员与部落长老和知识饲养者合作，将领导专业发展活动，以支持前和在职教育，以支持他们开发与NGSS Earth Sciences以及基于当地知识和地球科学概念并解决现实世界中问题的NGSS Earth Sciences以及科学和工程实践一致的课程。该项目将确定开发和实施基于社会和文化相关的STEM课程的有效实践以及障碍。特别是该项目将：1）在环境和地球科学中招募，授权和留住来自潜水员的学生，尤其是美国原住民/夏威夷原住民学生； 2）为生活在远离文化的地方的学生以及“低封闭式”学生的学生中，培养一种地方感和“与地球的联系”，他们的文化可能与地方没有深深的联系； 3）支持教师发展可重复使用和可持续的相关，基于地点的课程，与下一代科学标准（NGSS）保持一致； 4）使用虚拟学习环境远程发展的位置感。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估，被视为珍贵的支持。