Educating Miners: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Rhetorical and Social Understandings in US and British Mine Safety Training Programs

9321470 Sauer这个比较研究项目将考察美国和英国的矿山安全培训项目，以确定成功的安全培训所必需的修辞和社会理解。拟议的项目将把最近建立的公众理解科学的社会理论研究与科学和技术话语的修辞和女权主义分析结合起来。本研究将1)比较美国和英国矿山安全教育计划和培训要求的结构、内容、管理和理念；2)识别美国和英国矿山风险和安全方面的专家领域和背景知识；3)定义支配美国和英国的操作训练文本的视觉和口头惯例和修辞假设；4)明确方案如何将责任和权力分配给矿山危害预防的各个社会群体；5)探索社会理解和专业知识，使矿工能够解释和积极理解矿山中的安全程序和风险；6)得出更广泛的结论，即社会理解在安全程序和指导手册的构建和解释中的作用。研究结果将在论文和会议上发表。调查人员还计划将调查结果提供给负责煤矿安全的政府机构，并为制定更有效的安全培训和教育计划提供一些切实可行的建议，以减少煤矿的风险。* * *

9321470 Sauer This comparative research project will examine U.S. and British mine safety training programs in order to identify the rhetorical and social understandings necessary for successful safety training. The proposed project will bring together recently established social-theoretical research in the public understanding of science with rhetorical and feminist analysis of scientific and technical discourse. The research will 1) compare the structure, content, administration, and philosophy of U.S. and British mine safety education programs and training requirements; 2) identify domains of expert and contextually-generated knowledge about risk and safety in U.S. and British mines; 3) define the visual and verbal conventions and rhetorical assumptions that govern operational training tesxts in the U.S. and Britain; 4) define how programs assign responsibility and authority to various social groups for hazard prevention in mines; 5) explore the social understandings and expertise that enable miners to interpret and actively make sense of safety procedures and risk in the mines; and 6) draw broader conclusions about the role of social understandings in the construction and interpretation of safety procedures and instruction manuals. The results of the research will be presented in papers and at conferences. The investigators also plan to make results available to government agencies with responsibilities for mine safety, and to offer some practical recommendations for developing more effective safety training and education programs to reduce risk in mines. ***