Rhetorical Engineering Education to Support Proactive Equity Teaching and Outcomes (RESPETO)

支持主动公平教学和成果的修辞工程教育 (RESPETO)

• 批准号: 2315095
• 负责人: Joel Mejia
• 金额: $ 364.11万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at San Antonio
• 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: 2023-09-01 至 2028-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315095&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rhetorical; Engineering; Education; Support; Proactive

This project will provide a handbook of materials for faculty in engineering to help them understand language practices (what language is and how it is used) in engineering education at a Hispanic Serving Institution. The handbook will offer recommended teaching practices that help students become more aware of how language is inaccessible to Latinx students. In addition, the handbook will be available to faculty in a digital format.This ethnographic project uses raciolinguistics as its theoretical framework. It will (a) investigate how and in what ways a racialized discourse in engineering creates barriers for minoritized populations to pursue engineering degrees; (b) provide engineering faculty and students with tools to recognize, value, and activate language that challenges dominant racialized discourses in engineering through critical sociolinguistic awareness; (c) and identify and reflect on pedagogical practices that challenge racialized discourse and linguistic practices throughout their work. This project will provide a more nuanced understanding of the role language and linguistic practices play in perpetuating inequity and lack of access to engineering spaces.The project will engage four cohorts of 10 Latinx undergraduate students as researchers who will co-design, collect, analyze, and disseminate data for the project. The project will include document analysis of institutional artifacts, interviews with faculty, staff, and administrators, awareness workshops and seminars, questionnaires, and reflective journals. Findings will be disseminated through a digital handbook, social media campaign, seminars, workshops, and conference presentations. The findings from this project will appeal to the broader engineering education field, Hispanic Serving Institutions, Predominantly White Institutions, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. This 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.

该项目将为工程系教师提供一本材料手册，帮助他们了解西班牙裔服务机构工程教育中的语言实践（什么是语言以及如何使用）。该手册将提供推荐的教学实践，帮助学生更加意识到语言是如何无法进入拉丁裔学生。此外，该手册将以数字格式提供给教师。这个民族志项目使用种族语言学作为其理论框架。它将（a）调查工程中的种族化话语如何以及以何种方式为少数群体追求工程学位制造障碍;（B）通过批判性社会语言学意识为工程教师和学生提供识别、评价和激活语言的工具，以挑战工程中占主导地位的种族化话语;（c）在其整个工作过程中，查明并反思挑战种族化话语和语言做法的教学做法。该项目将提供一个更微妙的理解的作用语言和语言的做法在延续不平等和缺乏进入工程空间发挥。该项目将聘请四组10名拉丁美洲大学本科生作为研究人员谁将共同设计，收集，分析和传播数据的项目。该项目将包括机构文物的文件分析，与教师，工作人员和管理人员的访谈，意识讲习班和研讨会，问卷调查和反思期刊。调查结果将通过数字手册、社交媒体活动、研讨会、讲习班和会议介绍进行传播。该项目的研究结果将吸引更广泛的工程教育领域，西班牙裔服务机构，主要是白色机构，和历史上的黑人学院和大学。该项目由STEM教育活动中的种族平等（EDU种族平等）资助。该活动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。获奖项目旨在集中STEM企业内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。这项活动符合NSF的核心价值，即支持来自全国人口群体，地区和组织类型多样性的杰出研究人员和创新思想家。教育大学的各个项目为种族平等活动提供资金，以表彰其项目与董事会四个部门的集体研究和开发目标的一致性。该奖项反映了NSF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。