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

STEM教育者的学习模式迫切需要实质性地考虑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整合日常教学的更有意义的公平方法，有必要进一步解决这些教学方法如何经常复制不公平的STEM结构的问题。这一合作项目旨在通过设计、实施和研究一种教育者学习模式来应对这些挑战，该模式帮助教育者认识到并改变时时刻刻的学习互动，这种互动在无数STEM背景下延续了种族不平等。因此，该项目旨在实现两个主要成果。首先，加强教育工作者的能力，以调解STEM概念和学校特权做法与那些关注学生文化和智力生活的人之间产生的时时刻刻的紧张关系；其次，产生关于如何系统地支持教育工作者与不公正的STEM教与学的概念和伦理复杂性作斗争的知识。这项为期三年的研究围绕一系列基于故事作品的模块构建，以土著知识系统方法为中心，集中学习者的语言、历史、基于现象的故事情节，以及他们在共同设计STEM学习机会时系统性种族主义的种族主义经历。通过项目负责人与K-12和高等教育STEM教育工作者之间的长期伙伴关系，为土著、黑人和拉丁裔青年和家庭服务，模块的迭代设计基于对教育者学习轨迹的分析，同时通过故事创作进行协作设计。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)，通过多媒体渠道与社区、从业者和研究人员广泛共享资源和工具，以及面向学术和从业者的出版物和演示文稿外，该项目还有可能为STEM空间中更具种族和教育公正的教育者与学生互动开发高度适应性方法的基础理论提供信息。这一合作项目由STEM教育种族平等项目(EDU Race 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。获奖项目寻求集中受STEM企业内部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，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各地的计划为种族平等计划提供资金，以表彰其项目与理事会四个部门的集体研究和开发努力的一致性。这一奖项反映了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。

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.