Creating Sustainable Community, Museum, and University Collaborations

创建可持续的社区、博物馆和大学合作

• 批准号: 2314112
• 负责人: Eli Tucker-Raymond
• 金额: $ 14.74万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston 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: 2023-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314112&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Sustainable; Community; Museum; University

Through increasing attention paid to out-of-school contexts, research is showing that powerful science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) meaning-making is possible when helping young people see the everyday practices that are situated within STEM domains. Museums and science centers have long been centers of public engagement with STEM; however, over that last few decades there has been growing importance of the need for museums to be relevant to their communities. This has spurred the recognition of the importance of doing work with, rather than for, communities and the need to create better mechanisms for developing meaningful partnerships. Thus, the project is designed to examine partnership building through a series of online and in-person workshops for museum and science center staff, community members (high school-aged youth), and university researchers. Through this year-long workshop series, three primary goals will be accomplished: a) understand what it means to build and foster ethical community partnerships between museums, local communities, and researchers; b) create the foundation for relationship building between participating partners for continued networking and collaboration beyond the workshop series; and c) create a generative collaborative space for sharing, exploring, and developing ideas on what it means to design, enact, and study culturally sustaining STEM youth programs in museums. Participants from museums and science centers in three major metropolitan areas of the United States (Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago) will learn from one another about how each serves their local populations and how to improve that service. Grounded in Bang's community-based design research (CBDR), the project will engage museum educators and staff, current and alumni participants of youth museum programs, and university researchers around several questions of interest: How can museum staff, community members, and university researchers build a research partnership to open new possibilities for theorizing and actualizing culturally sustaining STEM learning? How can we develop multi-layered partnerships in local and distal geographical spaces? How do we consider diverse stakeholder goals that may be in tension, and translate them into goal-directed activities for mutual flourishing? What are other obstacles in including youth to design and develop research and development grants? How might we mitigate those obstacles? Teams in each city will be comprised of two museum staff, one youth program alumni, and three youth program participants from each of six museums/science centers along with four education/learning sciences researchers. The teams will participate in in-person workshops locally and virtually across locations. The project will adhere to three core principles to ensure equitable and ethical participation from all participants: (1) fostering relationship development; (2) power sharing and respectful decision making; and (3) identifying future proposed projects that ensure reciprocal benefits. Photovoice is selected as the core methodology to support ideating, sharing, and documenting the range of perspectives and experiences from the stakeholders. Narrative discourse analysis will be the primary approach to analyzing data from team meetings and workshops. The field will benefit from what the project learns about collaborating within and across geographic locations, how the participants create and share knowledge, and an outline of recommended next steps. At the end of the project, deliverables include a set of principles for more community-based and inclusive programming that all science centers and museums can use as well as new collaborations, including new possible research and development projects between the partners aimed at serving their communities.This Partnership Development & Planning project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which supports projects that: (a) contribute to research and practice that considers informal STEM learning's role in equity and belonging in STEM; (b) promote personal and educational success in STEM; (c) advance public engagement in scientific discovery; (d) foster interest in STEM careers; (e) create and enhance the theoretical and empirical foundations for effective informal STEM learning; (f) improve community vibrancy; and/or (g) enhance science communication and the public's engagement in and understanding of STEM and STEM processes. By examining the foundational and sometimes problematic practices in the ISL field that must be interrogated to make meaningful change in this space, the project supports AISL's goal for broadening participation in STEM.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.

通过越来越多地关注校外环境，研究表明，当帮助年轻人看到位于STEM领域内的日常实践时，强大的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）意义是可能的。博物馆和科学中心长期以来一直是公众参与STEM的中心;然而，在过去的几十年里，博物馆与社区相关的需求越来越重要。这促使人们认识到与社区合作而不是为社区工作的重要性，并认识到需要建立更好的机制，发展有意义的伙伴关系。因此，该项目旨在通过为博物馆和科学中心的工作人员、社区成员（高中年龄的青年）和大学研究人员举办一系列在线和面对面的研讨会来研究伙伴关系的建立。通过为期一年的系列研讨会，将实现三个主要目标：a）理解在博物馆、当地社区和研究人员之间建立和促进伦理社区伙伴关系的意义; B）为参与伙伴之间建立关系奠定基础，以便在系列研讨会之后继续建立网络和合作;以及c）创建一个生成性的协作空间，用于分享，探索和发展关于在博物馆中设计，制定和研究文化上支持STEM青年计划的想法。来自美国三个主要大都市地区（波士顿、费城和芝加哥）的博物馆和科学中心的参与者将相互学习如何为当地居民服务以及如何改善这种服务。基于Bang的社区设计研究（CBDR），该项目将吸引博物馆教育工作者和工作人员，青年博物馆计划的当前和校友参与者以及大学研究人员围绕几个感兴趣的问题：博物馆工作人员，社区成员和大学研究人员如何建立研究伙伴关系，为理论化和实现文化上的STEM学习开辟新的可能性？我们如何在当地和偏远地区发展多层次的伙伴关系？我们如何考虑可能处于紧张状态的不同利益相关者的目标，并将其转化为共同繁荣的目标导向的活动？在让青年参与设计和开发研究与发展赠款方面还有哪些其他障碍？我们如何减少这些障碍？每个城市的团队将由两名博物馆工作人员，一名青年计划校友和三名来自六个博物馆/科学中心的青年计划参与者沿着四名教育/学习科学研究人员组成。这些小组将参加当地和各地的现场讲习班。该项目将坚持三项核心原则，以确保所有参与者公平和道德地参与：（1）促进关系发展;（2）权力分享和尊重决策;（3）确定未来的拟议项目，确保互惠互利。Photovoice被选为核心方法，以支持构思，分享和记录利益相关者的观点和经验。叙述性话语分析将是分析团队会议和研讨会数据的主要方法。该领域将受益于该项目所了解的有关地理位置内和跨地理位置的协作，参与者如何创建和共享知识以及建议的后续步骤的概述。在项目结束时，可交付成果包括一套原则，以更基于社区和包容性的编程，所有科学中心和博物馆可以使用，以及新的合作，包括新的可能的研究和开发项目之间的合作伙伴，旨在服务于他们的社区。这个合作伙伴关系发展&规划项目由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划支持以下项目：（a）促进研究和实践，考虑非正式STEM学习在STEM的公平和归属方面的作用;（B）促进STEM中的个人和教育成功;（c）推动公众参与科学发现;（d）培养对STEM职业的兴趣;（e）为有效的非正式STEM学习创造和加强理论和经验基础;（f）提高社区活力;和/或（g）加强科学传播和公众对STEM和STEM进程的参与和理解。通过检查在ISL领域的基本和有时有问题的做法，必须询问，使这一空间有意义的变化，该项目支持AISL的目标，扩大参与STEM。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。