Ecological Research and the Complexities of Participation in Social and Environmental Change

A.项目概述：生态研究和参与社会与环境变化的复杂性要求为两个关于生态恢复作为社会重建的讲习班提供部分资金。协作生成环境知识和探究。这些主题的知识价值与a)科学的社会塑造和科学对社会过程的影响有关，b)这些主题揭示了与科学家，STS学者和科学教育者有关的社会-环境相互作用的复杂性问题。研讨会的主题选择和创新、互动的特点旨在吸引参与者，他们将通过跨学科教育和其他活动来发展知识、技能和兴趣，以促进科学的社会背景化。参与者将从科学与技术研究（STS）、科学和科学教育领域寻找，并将包括研究生和更有经验的学者。更广泛的影响主要是在教育方面：参与者将被要求在完成后六个月内提交与其研讨会主题相关的新教学大纲和课程单元（主要是大学水平的课程）或推广活动。这些内容将在《科学与社会教育和推广在线资源》的扩大汇编中提供。讲习班的形成性和总结性评价将为从第一年到下一年发展讲习班经验提供基础，并为建立讲习班模式提供基础，这种模式可以重复、根据评价而发展，并由参加者加以调整。

A. Project SummaryEcological Research and the Complexities of Participation in Social and Environmental ChangePartial funding is requested for two workshops on ecological restoration as social reconstruction. Collaborative generation of environmental knowledge and inquiry. The intellectual merit of these topics is related to a) the social shaping of science and the influence of science on social processes being firmly in the center and b) the topics opening up issues about complexities of social-environmental interactions that concern scientists, STS scholars, andscience educators. The choice of topics and the innovative, interactive character of the workshops are designed to attract participants who will develop knowledge, skills, and interest in promoting the social contextualization of science through interdisciplinary education and other activities. Participants will be sought from Science and Technology Studies (STS), the sciences, and science education and will include graduate students and more experienced scholars. The broader impact is primarily in education: participants will be required to submit new syllabi and curriculum units (primarily for college levelcourses) or outreach activities related to their workshop topic within six months of its completion. These will be made available in an expanding compilation of Online Resources for Science-in-Society Education and Outreach. Formative and summative evaluations of the workshops will provide a basis for developing the workshop experience from the first year to the next and for establishing a modelof workshops that can be repeated, evolve in response to evaluations, and be adapted by participants.