Travel: Supplemental Funding Request: Collaboration Between Girl Power By Design and Managing Identities Projects

该旅行奖将支持美国的“CSforAll通过设计扩大女孩力量”项目和意大利的“管理多元社会身份”项目之间的合作。“女孩力量”团队正在开发两个理论概念来理解女孩的STEM身份，而“管理身份”团队正在进行一项纵向研究，以确定对有或没有移民背景的青少年福祉的支持。通过这次合作，两个团队将相互了解和学习彼此的方法，最终产生知识，以支持美国、意大利和其他国家的女孩学习STEM。女童力量小组将对意大利艾米利亚-罗马涅进行两次短期访问，每次访问大约持续三周，对两种国际背景下的少数民族社区进行比较分析。这项合作的主要目的是在两个国际背景下，对少数民族女孩的身份发展进行比较分析，这些女孩可以获得和参与具有文化响应性的课程和技术。在这方面，研究小组的目标是确定互惠识别和关键放大的现象是否在美国研究的本地化背景之外，在意大利更广泛的国际背景下发挥类似的作用。该合作将包括由美国PI、两名高级研究人员和三名研究生组成的核心团队对意大利艾米利亚-罗马涅的研究地点进行两次短期访问。作为分别来自意大利和美国的教育研究人员，她们将研究国家认同、安全和刑事定罪等概念对两国移民少数民族女学生认同的影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

This travel award will support a collaboration between the CSforAll Expanding Girl Power by Design project in the U.S. and the Managing Identities in Diverse Societies Project in Italy. The Girl Power team is developing two theoretical concepts to understand girls' STEM identity, while the Managing Identities team is conducting a longitudinal study to identify supports for the well-being of adolescents with and without a migrant background. Through this collaboration, the two teams will inform and learn from each others’ approaches, ultimately generating knowledge to support girls in STEM within the contexts of the United States, Italy, and beyond. The Girl Power Team will conduct two short-term visits to Emilia-Romagna, Italy, each lasting approximately three weeks, to conduct comparative analyses of minoritized communities across the two international contexts.The primary purpose of this collaboration is to engage in a comparative analysis of identity development of minoritized girls with access to and engagement with culturally responsive curricula and technologies across two international contexts. In this respect, the research team aims to identify whether the phenomena of Reciprocal Recognition and Critical Amplification are ones that function similarly beyond the localized context of the study in the United States to the broader international context in Italy. The collaboration will involve two short term visits to the research site in Emilia-Romagna, Italy by a core team consisting of the U.S. PI, two senior researchers, and three graduate students. As education researchers from Italy and the United States, respectively, they will examine the impact of concepts of national identity, safety, and criminalization on immigrant ethnic minority girl students' identities in both countries.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.