Spatial Justice in Physics Teaching and Learning

这个项目将培养科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员，他们知道如何解决种族和种族主义在物理教育中的作用。本项目旨在通过建立关于物理教学和学习环境中不公正的空间性的知识来解决物理中的种族主义问题——种族主义如何被铭印在空间中，包括教室的物理布局、影响教学方法和师生互动的政策和实践，以及学生和教师思考和被允许“占据”或居住空间的方式。在司法工作中，空间性是一个经常被忽视的维度，它更多地关注历史和社会学维度。不公正的空间性关注的是不公正如何嵌入到空间中。该项目的总体目标是支持物理教师，学生和研究人员建立种族主义如何塑造物理教学和学习空间的意识，以改变高等教育中该学科的教学方式。研究团队将与本科生合作，对物理教室进行深入的案例研究，将现有方法引入STEM空间的研究，并开发可应用于其他STEM学科的新方法工具。该项目将分析来自物理教室的视频、对物理学生的采访和其他文物，以确定种族问题如何以及在多大程度上出现在物理教室中，以及物理学生如何体验和谈判空间。该项目将产生更加种族和空间公平的物理教学设计原则，STEM研究人员可以使用的方法论工具，重新想象的学习空间的艺术渲染（反地图），对反种族主义实践的反思和真实的参与者研究，以及分享项目见解的出版物和演讲。这个合作项目是通过STEM教育项目中的种族平等（EHR种族平等）资助的。该项目支持研究和实践项目，调查种族平等因素如何影响科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育和劳动力的改善。获奖项目旨在将STEM企业中受系统性不平等影响最大的个人、社区和机构的声音、知识和经验集中起来。该项目符合美国国家科学基金会的核心价值，即支持来自全国不同人口群体、地区和组织类型的杰出研究人员和创新思想家。EHR种族平等的资金来自EHR各个项目，以表彰其项目与董事会四个部门的集体研究和开发重点的一致性。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。

This project will prepare scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians who understand how to address the roles of race and racism in physics education. This project seeks to address racism in physics by building knowledge about the spatiality of injustice in physics teaching and learning environments – how racism gets inscribed in space, including the physical layout of the classroom, the policies and practices that shape instructional approaches and student-teacher interactions, and the ways students and faculty think about and are allowed to “take up” or inhabit space. Spatiality is an often-ignored dimension in justice work, which more often attends to historical and sociological dimensions. The spatiality of injustice focuses on how injustice can be embedded in space. The overall goal of this project is to support physics instructors, students, and researchers to build an awareness of how racism shapes physics teaching and learning spaces to transform how the discipline is taught in higher education.The research team will partner with undergraduate students to conduct in-depth case studies of physics classrooms, bringing existing methods to the study of STEM spaces and developing new methodological tools that can be applied to other STEM disciplines. The project will analyze video from physics classrooms, interviews with physics students, and other artifacts to identify how and to what extent issues of race arise in physics classrooms and how space is experienced and negotiated by physics students. The project will produce design principles for more racially and spatially just physics teaching and learning, methodological tools that can be used by STEM researchers, artistic renderings of reimagined learning spaces (counter-maps), reflections on anti-racist practices and authentic participant research, and publications and presentations that share project insights. This collaborative project is funded through the Racial Equity in STEM Education program (EHR Racial Equity). The program supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce. Awarded projects seek to center the voices, knowledge, and experiences of the individuals, communities, and institutions most impacted by systemic inequities within the STEM enterprise. This program aligns with NSF’s core value of supporting outstanding researchers and innovative thinkers from across the Nation's diversity of demographic groups, regions, and types of organizations. Funds for EHR Racial Equity are pooled from programs across EHR in recognition of the alignment of its projects with the collective research and development thrusts of the four divisions of the directorate.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.