ASEE Safe Zone Workshops and Virtual Community of Practice to Promote LGBTQ Equality in Engineering
ASEE Safe Zone Workshops and Virtual Community of Practice to Promote LGBTQ Equality in Engineering
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ASEE 安全区研讨会和虚拟实践社区促进工程领域 LGBTQ 平等
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2016
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T. Waidzunas
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S. Farrell;E. Cech;R. C. Guerra;A. Minerick;T. Waidzunas
尽管近年来通过立法和社会接受，美国在LGBTQ（女同性恋，男同性恋，双性恋，变性人和酷儿）平等方面取得了重大进展，但研究表明，LGBTQ学生和大学校园的教师仍然受到排斥和歧视。本文介绍了一个变革性的项目，将多样性研究与教师发展计划联系起来，以促进工程中的LGBTQ平等。该项目的目的是（1）确定工程文化的方面，目前LGBTQ平等的障碍，（2）建立知识和技能，以破坏歧视和促进LGBTQ平等在工程部门在大学校园和（3）确定促进LGBTQ平等的最佳做法工程。安全区研讨会创建了一个可见的LGBTQ肯定教师网络，他们有助于在工程部门创造积极和包容的氛围。实践的虚拟社区（VCP）共同努力，以支持个人成员采取行动，以促进LGBTQ平等在他们的部门。在过去的两年里，超过270名工程教育工作者参加了在ASEE年会上举办的20个安全区研讨会。评估结果表明，安全区研讨会的内容已经适当地针对工程教育工作者的观众，并有一个明确的呼吁，以扩大研讨会和培育有关LGBTQ纳入工程的对话。在线技术被用来创建一个可扩展和可持续的模式，用于共享知识，工具和资源，以促进LGBTQ在传统上难以渗透的环境中的包容性。使用一个双层的，培训师的结构，两名专家培训了一批20名领导人，以促进在线和面对面的安全区研讨会，并领导一个虚拟社区的实践工程学院。讲习班和自愿合作伙伴计划将于2016年初启动。该项目采用变革性、周期性的混合方法研究模式，为社会变革提供基础。变革性的研究通过对工程系主任，教师和学生的调查以及在与工程系教师的安全区培训课程期间进行的人种学参与者观察，产生了工程文化的新知识。项目计划的周期性方面将这些新知识整合到另一个级别的安全区培训课程中，更具体地解决工程文化问题。
Even though recent years have seen significant advances in LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) equality in the U.S. through legislation and social acceptance, research shows that LGBTQ students and faculty on college campuses still experience exclusion and discrimination. This paper describes a transformative project that links diversity research with a faculty development initiative to promote LGBTQ equality in engineering. The aims of the project are to (1) identify aspects of engineering culture that present barriers to LGBTQ equality, (2) build knowledge and skills to disrupt discrimination and promote LGBTQ equality in engineering departments on college campuses and (3) to identify best practices for promoting LGBTQ equality in engineering. Safe Zone Workshops create a visible network of LGBTQ-affirming faculty who contribute to creating a positive and inclusive climate in engineering departments. A Virtual Community of Practice (VCP) works together to support individual members to take action to advance LGBTQ equality in their departments. Over 270 engineering educators have attended the 20 Safe Zone Workshops offered at the ASEE Annual Conference in the last two years. Evaluation results indicate that the content of the Safe Zone Workshops has been appropriately tailored to an audience of engineering educators, and that there is a clear call to expand the workshops and nurture the conversation about LGBTQ inclusion in engineering. Online technology is being used to create a scalable and sustainable model for sharing knowledge, tools and resources to promote LGBTQ inclusion in environments that are traditionally difficult to penetrate. Using a twotiered, train-the-trainer structure, two experts trained a cohort of twenty leaders to facilitate online and face-to-face Safe Zone Workshops and lead a Virtual Community of Practice for engineering faculty. The workshops and VCP are being launched in early 2016. This project uses a transformative, cyclical mixed-method research model to provide a basis for social change. The transformative research generates new knowledge of engineering culture through surveys of engineering deans, faculty and students as well as ethnographic participant observations during Safe Zone training sessions with engineering faculty. The cyclical aspect of the project plan integrates this new knowledge into another level of Safe Zone training sessions that address engineering culture more specifically.