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

STEM教育工作者的学习模式迫切需要在社会和文化背景下实质性地考虑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更有意义的公平方法，整合日常教学法，还需要进一步解决这些教学法如何经常再现不公平的STEM结构。该合作项目旨在通过设计、实施和研究教育工作者学习模型来解决这些挑战，该模型帮助教育工作者认识和改变在无数STEM环境中使种族不平等永续存在的即时学习互动。因此，该项目旨在实现两个主要成果。首先，深化教育工作者的能力，以调解学校特权的STEM概念和实践与学生文化和智力生活之间随时出现的紧张关系；第二，在教育工作者与不公正的STEM教学和学习的概念和伦理复杂性作斗争时，如何系统地支持他们的知识。这项为期三年的研究围绕着一系列以故事为基础的模块，这是一种土著知识系统方法，在共同设计STEM学习机会时，将少数民族学习者的语言、历史、基于现象的故事情节及其系统性种族主义的种族化经历作为中心。通过项目负责人与为土著、黑人和拉丁裔青年和家庭服务的K-12和高等教育STEM教育者之间的长期合作伙伴关系，在通过故事作品共同设计时，通过对教育者学习轨迹的分析，为模块的迭代设计提供信息。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讲，与社区、从业者和研究人员广泛共享资源和工具外，该项目有可能为开发高度适应性的方法提供基础理论，以便在STEM空间中更加种族和教育公正的教育者-学生互动。该合作项目由STEM教育项目中的种族平等（EDU种族平等）资助。该项目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。获奖项目旨在将STEM企业中受系统性不平等影响最大的个人、社区和机构的声音、知识和经验集中起来。该项目符合美国国家科学基金会的核心价值，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的项目为种族平等项目提供资金，以表彰其项目与董事会四个部门的集体研究和发展重点相一致。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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.