CAREER: Black Feminist Epistemologies: Building a Sisterhood in Computing

职业：黑人女权主义认识论：在计算领域建立姐妹关系

• 批准号: 2239445
• 负责人: Yolanda Rankin
• 金额: $ 150.5万
• 依托单位: Florida State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2028-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2239445&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Black; Feminist; Epistemologies; Building

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program is a National Science Foundation-wide activity that offers awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education, to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization, and to build a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. This CAREER project explores the postsecondary experiences of Black women currently enrolled in undergraduate computing degree programs to draw attention to racial and gender inequalities that Black women in computing endure. Despite efforts to intentionally increase the recruitment and retention of women in the field of computing, Black women remain acutely underrepresented. Gender-focused efforts have fallen short of increasing the number of Black women in computing because they fail to acknowledge how the intersection of race and gender shape Black women’s experiences, including their retention in the field of computing.Recent studies reveal that Black women enrolled in undergraduate computing degree programs at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) attest to the lack of support, mentorship, and resources that impede their ability to complete their degrees. Some choose to withdraw from these programs. Such results suggest that additional research explicitly focused on Black women enrolled at PWIs is essential for addressing the underrepresentation of Black women in computing. It aligns with the recent National Academies of Science Report, which recommends examining the experiences of women of color at critical junctures throughout their career. This project leverages Black feminist epistemologies and Black women’s ways of knowing, as critical frameworks of this research. The project utilizes the concept of sister circles to create counter spaces to build community and resist structural oppression. Sister circles amplify the voices of Black women as they engage in intimate conversations about experiences navigating their respective computing degree programs students. Additionally, Black women undergraduate computing students will share information about how structural oppression operates in the context of computing education and devise strategies to resist structural oppression. Results from this research will generate empirical, in-depth knowledge of Black women undergraduate students’ experiences in computing degree programs at PWIs, identifying critical inflection points during their progression that predict Black women’s ability to persist in computing. Additionally, a sister circle toolkit will be developed that enables PWIs to build an effective community of support for Black women in computing. This community includes access to near-peer mentors, resources, and information about career development opportunities as a countermeasure to the oppression and trauma that Black women experience in higher education. This project is funded by the Directorate for STEM Education Core Research (ECR) program, which supports work that advances fundamental research on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.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.

教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划是美国国家科学基金会范围内的一项活动，为早期职业教师提供奖励，这些教师有潜力成为研究和教育领域的学术榜样，引领其部门或组织使命的进步，并为整合教育和研究的终身领导力奠定基础。该职业项目探讨了目前就读本科计算机学位课程的黑人女性的高等教育经历，以引起人们对计算机领域黑人女性所遭受的种族和性别不平等的关注。尽管努力有意增加计算机领域女性的招聘和保留，但黑人女性的代表性仍然严重不足。以性别为中心的努力未能增加计算机领域黑人女性的数量，因为她们没有认识到种族和性别的交集如何影响黑人女性的经历，包括她们在计算机领域的保留。最近的研究表明，在以白人为主的机构 (PWI) 就读本科计算机学位课程的黑人女性证明，缺乏支持、指导和资源，阻碍了她们完成学位的能力。有些人选择退出这些计划。这些结果表明，明确针对 PWI 注册黑人女性的额外研究对于解决黑人女性在计算机领域代表性不足的问题至关重要。它与最近的美国国家科学院报告一致，该报告建议检查有色人种女性在整个职业生涯关键时刻的经历。该项目利用黑人女权主义认识论和黑人女性的认知方式作为这项研究的关键框架。该项目利用姐妹圈的概念来创建柜台空间来建立社区并抵抗结构性压迫。当黑人女性就各自计算机学位课程学生的经历进行亲密对话时，姐妹圈放大了黑人女性的声音。此外，黑人女本科计算机学生将分享有关结构性压迫如何在计算机教育背景下运作的信息，并制定抵抗结构性压迫的策略。这项研究的结果将对黑人女性本科生在 PWI 计算机学位课程中的经历产生实证、深入的了解，确定她们发展过程中的关键拐点，从而预测黑人女性坚持计算的能力。此外，还将开发一个姐妹圈工具包，使 PWI 能够为计算机领域的黑人女性建立一个有效的支持社区。该社区包括获得近同龄导师、资源和有关职业发展机会的信息，作为黑人女性在高等教育中遭受的压迫和创伤的对策。该项目由 STEM 教育核心研究理事会 (ECR) 计划资助，该计划支持推进 STEM 学习和学习环境的基础研究、扩大 STEM 参与以及 STEM 劳动力发展的工作。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。