FW-HTF-P: Building Upon New Learning Theories To Attract And Retain The Skilled Workforce Of The Future In The Construction Trades

FW-HTF-P：以新的学习理论为基础，吸引和留住建筑行业未来的熟练劳动力

• 批准号: 2222763
• 负责人: Christine Fiori
• 金额: $ 14.99万
• 依托单位: Drexel University
• 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=2222763&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FW; HTF; Building; Upon; New

The overarching goal of this Future of Work at the Human Technology Frontier (FW-HTF-P) project is to enable the creation of technology innovations to recruit and retain a large and diverse pool of workers, with the objective of forestalling an acute labor shortage in the building trades. Specifically, this Project Development award will support a pilot study to identify the barriers associated with technology adoption and resistance to new technology within the construction building trades. The results will be applied to create interventions to overcome these barriers within community college and trade school training programs, to help prepare a large, technically skilled, and inclusive workforce -- including women and other groups traditionally underrepresented in construction occupations -- for careers that meet individual and industry needs. The researchers will conduct a pilot study focused upon the construction building trades to identify the barriers associated with technology adoption and the resistance within the trades. The work will build upon a foundational framework developed in 2021 to elucidate the underlying psychological factors that influence technology uptake in the British oil and gas industry. Through interviews, field observations and nationwide surveys, the researchers will seek to identify the psychological factors that influence technology adoption within the construction trades. The team combines education practice in the construction industry, an understanding of the methodologies associated with adult learning/workforce development, experience with the application of principles associated with the human technology interface, and practical application of systems thinking to complex societal challenges. The interdisciplinary approach seeks to identify transformational learning technologies at the human technology frontier that will revolutionize the educational methodologies used in construction reducing the labor shortage and encourage life-long pervasive learning in the trades.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.

人类技术前沿未来工作(FW-HTF-P)项目的总体目标是实现技术创新，以招聘和留住大量和多样化的工人，目的是防止建筑行业出现严重的劳动力短缺。具体地说，该项目开发奖将支持一项试点研究，以确定建筑行业内与技术采用和对新技术的抵制相关的障碍。研究结果将被用于在社区大学和职业学校培训计划中创建克服这些障碍的干预措施，帮助培养一支庞大的、技术熟练的和包容性的劳动力队伍--包括在建筑职业中传统上代表性较低的妇女和其他群体--为满足个人和行业需求的职业生涯做准备。研究人员将进行一项以建筑行业为重点的试点研究，以确定与采用技术有关的障碍和行业内的阻力。这项工作将建立在2021年制定的一个基本框架的基础上，以阐明影响英国石油和天然气行业技术采用的潜在心理因素。通过访谈、实地观察和全国范围的调查，研究人员将寻求确定影响建筑行业采用技术的心理因素。该团队结合了建筑业的教育实践、对成人学习/劳动力发展相关方法的理解、与人机技术接口相关原则的应用经验，以及系统思维在复杂社会挑战中的实际应用。跨学科方法旨在确定人类技术前沿的变革性学习技术，这些技术将彻底改变建筑业使用的教育方法，减少劳动力短缺，并鼓励行业内的终身普及学习。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。