Doctoral Dissertation Research: Knowledge Production & Cultural Politics in STEM Pedagogy

博士论文研究：知识生产

• 批准号: 2214051
• 负责人: Kim Fortun
• 金额: $ 3.14万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2214051&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Knowledge; Production

How science is taught varies considerably across contexts and time. What shapes science instruction? How do broader political and cultural factors interact with educators’ characteristics to affect how science is understood and taught? This doctoral dissertation research uses theory from cultural anthropology and science and technology studies to investigate which cultural, political, and individual factors emerge as most important in shaping how science is understood and taught in different contexts. In addition to training a graduate student, this project disseminates its results broadly to stakeholder and academic audiences. Results further develop educational curricula. This project conducts a year of ethnographic research to address two central questions: 1) How do science educators understand the influence of broader cultural trends on science pedagogy; and 2) How do individual characteristics affect how science educators teach science across different cultural contexts? The student investigator employs participant observation and in-depth interviews with science educators, researchers, and curriculum developers in different institutional settings across multiple iterations. Using a comparative approach, the project advances understanding of how notions of science shift when educators of varying background learn how to teach in different institutional settings.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.

如何在环境和时间上进行各种考虑。是什么塑造科学教学？更广泛的政治和文化因素如何与教育者的特征相互作用，以影响科学的理解和教导？该博士学位论文研究使用文化人类学和科学技术研究的理论来研究哪些文化，政治和个人因素在塑造科学在不同情况下如何理解和教导最重要。除了培训研究生外，该项目还将其结果广泛传播给利益相关者和学术受众。结果进一步开发了教育课程。该项目进行了一年的人种学研究，以解决两个核心问题：1）科学教育者如何了解更广泛的文化趋势对科学教学法的影响； 2）个体特征如何影响科学教育者如何在不同文化背景下教科学？学生调查员的员工参与了在多次迭代的不同机构环境中与科学教育者，研究人员和课程开发人员进行的观察和深入访谈。使用比较方法，该项目对理解科学概念的理解在不同的背景教育者学习如何在不同的机构环境中进行教学时如何进行教学。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。