Collaborative Research: Overcoming Isolation and Scholarly Devaluation by Bolstering the Collective Agency of Black Discipline-Based Education Researchers

合作研究：通过支持黑人学科教育研究人员的集体机构来克服孤立和学术贬值

• 批准号: 2315023
• 负责人: Walter Lee
• 金额: $ 109.53万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 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: 2023-09-15 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315023&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Overcoming; Isolation; Scholarly

There is a growing need for scholars specializing in discipline-based education research (DBER) due to the importance of STEM in preparing the technical workforce and a science-literate citizenry. DBER is defined as a collection of related research fields (e.g., physics, biology, engineering, computer science) executing basic and applied research centered on education research questions anchored in the context of their specific field of study. The proposed project aims to advance understanding and mitigate the impact of systemic racism on the collective agency of Black scholars engaged in DBER focused on engineering and computer science. The project team conceptualizes systemic racism as the complex array of practices, policies, and systems of evaluation that contribute to the de facto segregation and scholarly devaluation of Black scholars. This combination of challenges presents obstacles for scholars working to maximize their potential impact as change agents within their disciplines. This project aims to examine how systemic racism restricts scholars' impact and shapes their individual and collective agency. The long-term goals of the project are to foster collaboration among STEM education researchers who are geographically dispersed across the country; build capacity for culturally-competent STEM education research and dissemination; enhance the visibility of the work done by Black scholars; and advocate for field-level changes to practices and policies that reinforce systemic racism.The main goal of this project is to advance understanding of the impact systematic racism has on the individual and collective agency of Black scholars engaged in DBER. The research team will use an asset-based, trauma-informed, community-oriented approach. First, the project team will collect, compile, analyze, and visualize data about the population of Black DBER scholars. Second, the project will interview a cross-generational subset of late-, mid-, and early-career Black scholars about the workplace challenges encountered during their professional journey and the tactics used to overcome them. Finally, the project will scaffold new collaborations between discipline-based education researchers through workshops focused on forming and sustaining productive research collaborations. This project is designed to expand prior literature about discipline-based education research to include substantial considerations of race or racism. The research design guiding this study will leverage and foster authentic partnerships among Black scholars engaged in DBER. This study design may also serve as a model for subsequent studies on collective agency. This collaborative project is funded through the Racial Equity in STEM Education activity (EDU Racial Equity). The activity 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 activity 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 activity 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.

由于STEM在准备技术劳动力和科学识别公民方面的重要性，因此越来越需要专门研究基于学科的教育研究（DBER）的学者。 DBER被定义为相关研究领域的集合（例如，物理，生物学，工程，计算机科学），以基础研究和应用研究为中心，该研究以教育研究问题为中心，依靠其特定的研究领域。拟议的项目旨在提高理解和减轻系统性种族主义对专注于工程和计算机科学的DBER集体的黑人学者的影响。项目团队将系统性种族主义概念化为复杂的实践，政策和评估系统，这有助于事实上的隔离和科学地贬值黑人学者。这种挑战的结合给学者带来了障碍，以最大程度地利用其作为学科中的变革推动者的潜在影响。该项目旨在研究系统性种族主义如何限制学者的影响并塑造其个人和集体代理。该项目的长期目标是在全国各地分散的STEM教育研究人员中促进合作；建立具有文化能力的STEM教育研究和传播能力；增强黑人学者所做的工作的可见性；并倡导对实践和政策进行现场层面的变化，以加强系统性种族主义。该项目的主要目标是促进对系统种族主义对参与DBER的黑人学者的个人和集体机构的影响的理解。研究团队将使用基于资产的，具有创伤的，面向社区的方法。首先，项目团队将收集，编译，分析和可视化有关黑人DBER学者人口的数据。其次，该项目将采访后期，中和早期职业黑人学者的跨代子集，内容涉及他们在专业旅程中遇到的工作场所挑战以及用于克服它们的策略。最后，该项目将通过专注于成立和维持产品研究合作的研讨会来偿还基于学科的教育研究人员之间的新合作。该项目旨在扩大有关基于学科的教育研究的先前文献，以包括对种族或种族主义的大量考虑。研究设计指导这项研究将利用并建立从事DBER的黑人学者的真实伙伴关系。这项研究设计还可以作为后续研究集体代理的模型。这个协作项目是通过STEM教育活动（EDU种族平等）的种族平等资助。该活动支持研究和实践项目，这些项目调查了对种族资产的考虑如何改善科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和劳动力。授予的项目旨在将个人，社区和机构的声音，知识和经验集中在STEM企业中最受系统性不平等影响。这项活动符合NSF的核心价值，即支持来自全国各种人口群体，地区和组织类型的杰出研究人员和创新思想家。 EDU的计划为种族公平活动提供资金，以表彰其项目与局四个部门的集体研究和发展的一致性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估而被认为是珍贵的支持。