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（职业）计划是一项全国科学基金会范围的活动，为支持早期职业教师提供奖项，他们有可能在研究和教育中充当学术榜样，在其部门或组织的使命中领导进步，并为在整合教育和研究方面的领导才能建立一生的基础。该职业项目探讨了目前正在参加本科计算学位课程的黑人女性的中学后经历，以吸引对黑人妇女在计算中持久的种族和性别不平等的关注。尽管努力故意增加妇女在计算领域的招募和保留，但黑人妇女仍然敏锐地代表人数不足。以性别为中心的努力缺乏增加计算中的黑人女性的数量，因为她们未能承认种族与性别的交汇处是如何塑造黑人妇女的经历，包括她们在计算领域的保留。研究表明，黑人妇女在本科计算学位课程中招募了学位课程，主要是白人机构（PWIS）缺乏支持的能力，并能够完成支持，并为他们的资源提供了支持，并以此为基础。有些人选择退出这些程序。这样的结果表明，其他研究重点关注在PWI的黑人妇女，对于解决黑人妇女在计算中的代表性不足至关重要。它与最近的国家科学学院报告相吻合，该报告建议在整个职业生涯中检查关键时刻的有色妇女的经历。该项目利用黑人女权主义认识论和黑人妇女的认识方式，作为这项研究的关键框架。该项目利用姊妹电路的概念创建了对立空间来建立社区并抵制结构性意见。姐妹巡回赛在黑人妇女进行有关体验的亲密对话时会放大他们在PWIS各自的计算学位课程的亲密对话，从而在其进步过程中确定了关键影响点，以预测黑人妇女在计算中持续存在的能力。此外，还将开发一个姊妹圈工具包，使PWIS能够为计算机中的黑人妇女建立一个有效的支持社区。该社区包括获取有关职业发展机会的近点导师，资源和信息，以此与黑人妇女在高等教育中所经历的印象和创伤的对策。该项目由STEM教育核心研究局（ECR）计划资助，该计划支持为STEM学习和学习环境，扩大STEM参与和STEM Workerforce Development的基础研究的工作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过使用该基金会的知识分子和宽广的影响来评估Criteria Criteria的智力。