Postdoctoral Fellowship: STEMEdIPRF: Understanding instructor and student concepts of race to measure the prevalence of race essentialism in biology education

博士后奖学金：STEMEdIPRF：了解教师和学生的种族概念，以衡量生物教育中种族本质主义的流行程度

• 批准号: 2327488
• 负责人: Paula Adams
• 金额: $ 28.34万
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2327488&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Postdoctoral; Fellowship; STEMEdIPRF; Understanding; instructor

Race essentialism is the incorrect belief that race is an inherent biological characteristic resulting in distinct race categories. While race essentialism has been shown to be correlated with increased bias, stereotypes, and prejudice, improving student understandings of race has been shown to lower these distorted beliefs. This project is designed to serve the national interest by assessing beliefs about race of STEM instructors and students, increasing awareness of intersectionality, and developing recommendations targeting misconceptions about race in the classroom. These recommendations will ultimately inform improvements in STEM education which is of significance to teaching race and ethnicity and could result in more accurate understandings of race in society. This project measures undergraduate biology instructors’ and students’ concepts of race and combine this information with existing biology education literature and recommendations from experts in diversity, equity, and inclusion to create comprehensive guidelines for teaching race and ancestry in undergraduate biology through anti-essentialist and culturally relevant lenses. Racial biases directly harm historically marginalized and excluded communities, but little is known about how race concepts are perceived by individual faculty and students or reinforced by curricular materials. While virtually all current research supports a socially constructed view of race, race essentialism is still prevalent among the public and within scientific research. STEM educators in biology are in a unique position to counteract essentialist views of race and have a positive impact on both our students as well as the broader society. This project is designed to accomplish the following goals: (1) Explore the educational practices and beliefs of STEM instructors who teach biology, (2) Analyze the race concepts of undergraduate biology students and how they respond to instruction on these topics, (3) Expand upon instructor and student race concepts (1&2) with in-depth interviews of students and instructors, and (4) Create and disseminate new guidelines to address these issues by identifying gaps and missteps in biology education related to race. This project will improve STEM Education by creating a summary of the ways race and ancestry are taught in biology courses and by developing guidelines and recommendations that target specific race misconceptions. This project is supported by NSF’s STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (STEM Ed PRF) Program with co-funding from The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation. The STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (STEM Ed PRF) program that aims to enhance the research knowledge, skills, and practices of recent doctorates in STEM, STEM education, education, and related disciplines to advance their preparation to engage in fundamental and applied research that advances knowledge within the field. The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation through a partnership with the National Science Foundation seeks to promote greater diversity within the STEM/STEM education research workforce.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.

种族本质主义是一种错误的信念，认为种族是一种固有的生物特征，导致不同的种族类别。虽然种族本质主义已被证明与偏见，刻板印象和偏见的增加有关，但提高学生对种族的理解已被证明可以降低这些扭曲的信念。该项目旨在通过评估STEM教师和学生对种族的信念，提高对交叉性的认识，并针对课堂上对种族的误解提出建议，从而为国家利益服务。这些建议最终将为STEM教育的改进提供信息，这对种族和民族教育具有重要意义，并可能导致对社会中种族的更准确理解。 该项目措施本科生物教师和学生的种族概念和联合收割机结合现有的生物教育文献和建议，从多样性，公平性和包容性的专家创建全面的指导方针，通过反本质主义和文化相关的镜头在本科生物教学种族和血统。种族偏见直接伤害历史上被边缘化和被排斥的社区，但很少有人知道种族概念是如何被个别教师和学生或课程材料所强化。虽然目前几乎所有的研究都支持社会建构的种族观，但种族本质主义仍然在公众和科学研究中盛行。生物学领域的STEM教育工作者处于独特的地位，可以对抗种族本质主义观点，并对我们的学生和更广泛的社会产生积极影响。该项目旨在实现以下目标：（1）探索教生物学的STEM教师的教育实践和信念，（2）分析本科生物学学生的种族概念以及他们对这些主题的教学的反应，（3）通过对学生和教师的深入访谈，扩展教师和学生的种族概念（1& 2），以及（4）制定和传播新的指导方针，通过确定与种族有关的生物学教育中的差距和失误来解决这些问题。该项目将通过总结生物课程中种族和血统的教学方式，以及制定针对特定种族误解的指导方针和建议来改善STEM教育。该项目由NSF的STEM教育博士后研究奖学金（STEM艾德PRF）计划支持，并由Kaleta A共同资助。杜林基金会。STEM教育博士后研究奖学金（STEM艾德PRF）计划旨在提高STEM，STEM教育，教育和相关学科的近期博士学位的研究知识，技能和实践，以促进他们的准备，从事基础和应用研究，在该领域内推进知识。卡莱塔A.杜林基金会通过与美国国家科学基金会的合作，旨在促进STEM/STEM教育研究队伍的更大多样性。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。