Youth Engaging in the Science of Resilience: Sensing the Environment and Envisioning Solutions

青年参与复原力科学：感知环境并设想解决方案

• 批准号: 2215420
• 负责人: Kathleen Gray
• 金额: $ 235.89万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2215420&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Youth; Engaging; Science; Resilience; Sensing

This Innovations in Development project supports racially and ethnically diverse youth in learning about climate resilience in informal settings, including community centers, afterschool programs, and museums. The project aims to: (1) build the capacity of community organizations to implement youth programming on climate resilience; (2) increase youth knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy associated with climate resilience (also referred to as environmental health literacy for climate resilience); and (3) explore how collaborating research universities and community organizations engage diverse youth in informal STEM learning. Project partners include the UNC Institute for the Environment, the University of Washington-Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics and Environment, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Juntos NC, and the Duwamish River Community Coalition (DRCC). Juntos NC and DRCC actively engage Latino and Indigenous youth in their programming and seek to implement resilience-focused programming that supports youth science learning and leadership development. Together, informal educators and participating youth will develop locally relevant solutions to climate impacts in their communities. Youth will interact with university-based climate scientists and educators to collect and analyze data and will participate in resilience-focused dialogue, planning, and actions in their communities. Youth will share what they learn with their families and peers through family events and teen summits. The project will engage dozens of educators in community organizations and at least 250 youth, who will share what they learn with their families and communities, reaching hundreds more people through communications and local action projects. Mixed-methods assessment will provide insight into the extent participating youth (a) develop environmental health literacy for climate resilience, and (b) take action to address resilience in their home communities. The team will assess how these outcomes vary by location, and the implications of any variation on potential for project replication. A participatory evaluation, led by an external evaluator, will provide insight into empowerment outcomes. Findings will be disseminated to professional audiences at local and national conferences; and curricular materials from this project will be disseminated through the project website. This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to an evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. These approaches include 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 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.

这个发展创新项目支持种族和民族多样化的青年在非正式环境中学习气候适应力，包括社区中心，课后计划和博物馆。该项目旨在：（1）建设社区组织实施青年气候适应能力规划的能力;（2）增加青年与气候适应能力相关的知识、技能和自我效能（也称为气候适应能力的环境健康素养）;（3）探索合作研究型大学和社区组织如何让不同的青年参与非正式的STEM学习。项目合作伙伴包括华盛顿大学环境研究所、华盛顿大学跨学科暴露、疾病、基因组学和环境中心、北卡罗来纳州自然科学博物馆、Juntos NC和Duwamish河社区联盟（DRCC）。Juntos NC和DRCC积极参与拉丁美洲和土著青年的计划，并寻求实施以服从为重点的计划，支持青年科学学习和领导力发展。非正规教育工作者和参与的青年将共同制定与当地相关的解决方案，以应对其社区的气候影响。青年将与大学的气候科学家和教育工作者互动，收集和分析数据，并将参与社区中以遵守为重点的对话、规划和行动。青年将通过家庭活动和青少年峰会与家人和同龄人分享他们学到的东西。该项目将吸引社区组织的数十名教育工作者和至少250名青年参与，他们将与家人和社区分享他们学到的东西，通过传播和地方行动项目接触到数百人。混合方法评估将深入了解参与的青年在多大程度上（a）发展环境健康知识以增强气候复原力，以及（B）采取行动解决其家乡社区的复原力问题。该小组将评估这些结果如何因地点而异，以及任何变化对项目复制潜力的影响。由一名外部评价员领导的参与性评价将使人们深入了解增强权能的成果。调查结果将在地方和国家会议上向专业受众传播;该项目的课程材料将通过项目网站传播。该项目由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推进对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的循证理解的新方法。这些方法包括提供多种途径，以扩大获得和参与STEM学习经验，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入学习的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。