Collaborative Research: Reimagining Educator Learning Pathways Through Storywork for Racial Equity in STEM

协作研究：通过故事工作重新构想教育工作者的学习路径，以实现 STEM 中的种族平等

• 批准号: 2224593
• 负责人: Megan Bang
• 金额: $ 103.48万
• 依托单位: Northwestern 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: 2023-06-15 至 2028-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2224593&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Reimagining; Educator; Learning

There is a pressing need for STEM educator learning models to substantively consider the diversity of STEM practices and values across social and cultural contexts, as well as how STEM fields are adapting to this diversity. As educators seek more meaningful approaches to equity that integrate everyday pedagogies, there is a further need to address how these pedagogies often reproduce inequitable STEM structures. This collaborative project seeks to address these challenges by designing, implementing, and studying an educator learning model that helps educators recognize and transform the moment-to-moment learning interactions that perpetuate racial inequalities across a myriad of STEM contexts. The project therefore aims to achieve two primary outcomes. First, to deepen educators' capacity to mediate the moment-to-moment tensions that arise between STEM concepts and practices privileged in schools, and those that attend to students' cultural and intellectual lives; and second, to generate knowledge on how to systematically support educators as they wrestle with the conceptual and ethical complexities of unjust STEM teaching and learning.This three-year study is structured around a series of modules grounded in storywork, an Indigenous knowledge-systems approach to centering minoritized learners' language, history, phenomenon-based storylines, and their racialized experiences of systemic racism when co-designing STEM learning opportunities. Through long-standing partnerships between project leaders and K-12 and higher education STEM educators serving Indigenous, Black, and Latinx youth and families, the iterative design of modules is informed by the analysis of educator learning trajectories when codesigning through storywork. In addition to incorporating modules into higher education programs (e.g., teacher education and various STEM disciplinary courses), broadly sharing resources and tools with communities, practitioners, and researchers through multimedia outlets as well as academic and practitioner-facing publications and presentations, the project has the potential to inform foundational theory on developing highly adaptable approaches for more racially- and educationally- just educator-student interactions in STEM spaces. This collaborative project is funded through the Racial Equity in STEM Education program (EDU 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. Programs across EDU contribute funds to the Racial Equity program 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.

STEM 教育者的学习模式迫切需要实质性地考虑跨社会和文化背景的 STEM 实践和价值观的多样性，以及 STEM 领域如何适应这种多样性。随着教育工作者寻求更有意义的方法来实现融入日常教学法的公平性，我们进一步需要解决这些教学法如何经常重现不公平的 STEM 结构的问题。该合作项目旨在通过设计、实施和研究教育者学习模型来应对这些挑战，该模型帮助教育者认识并改变在无数 STEM 环境中长期存在种族不平等的即时学习互动。因此，该项目旨在实现两个主要成果。首先，加深教育工作者调解学校特权的 STEM 概念和实践与关注学生文化和智力生活的概念和实践之间即时紧张关系的能力；其次，产生关于如何系统地支持教育工作者应对不公正的 STEM 教学和学习的概念和道德复杂性的知识。 这项为期三年的研究围绕一系列以故事工作为基础的模块构建，这是一种本土知识系统方法，在共同设计 STEM 学习机会时，以少数群体学习者的语言、历史、基于现象的故事情节以及他们的系统性种族主义的种族化经历为中心。通过项目负责人与为原住民、黑人和拉丁裔青少年和家庭提供服务的 K-12 和高等教育 STEM 教育工作者之间的长期合作关系，模块的迭代设计通过故事工作联合设计时对教育工作者学习轨迹的分析来提供信息。除了将模块纳入高等教育计划（例如教师教育和各种 STEM 学科课程），通过多媒体渠道以及面向学术和从业者的出版物和演示文稿与社区、从业者和研究人员广泛共享资源和工具外，该项目还有可能为基础理论提供信息，以开发高度适应性的方法，以在 STEM 空间中实现更加种族和教育公正的教育者与学生互动。该合作项目由 STEM 教育中的种族平等计划 (EDU Racial Equity) 资助。该计划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。获奖项目力求集中受 STEM 企业内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。该计划符合 NSF 的核心价值观，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。 EDU 的项目向种族平等项目提供资金，以表彰其项目与该理事会四个部门的集体研究和开发主旨的一致性。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审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。