Graduate Teaching Fellows in Community Situated Research: The Triple Helix of University, K-12, and Community Knowledge Production

社区情境研究的研究生教学研究员：大学，K-12和社区知识生产的三重障碍机构：伦斯勒理工学院（RPI）PI和共同PI（S）：罗恩Eglash（RPI），Lupita蒙托亚（RPI），乔纳森多迪克（RPI），丹尼尔斯蒂尔森（奥尔巴尼学校）摘要在RPI？研究生研究员将研究他们的STEM研究与当地低收入和少数民族社区面临的社会问题（健康，环境，贫困，犯罪，信息获取等）之间的潜在关系。这些地方社区也将是研究员的所在地？中学合作教学计划。因此，研究生研究员将获得他们的研究学科和紧迫的社会问题之间的联系，以及培训，使他们能够沟通这些连接到公众的认识。在GK-12方面，研究表明，许多少数民族学生对STEM学者不感兴趣，因为他们看不到它与他们特定生活的相关性。通过与研究生研究员一起工作，公民科学家？（沿着我们国际课程的内容）GK-12教师将获得新的机会，让那些被剥夺权利的学生参与进来。至关重要的是，研究生教学研究员和他们的教师导师有权选择位于STEM研究前沿的项目，而不仅仅是应用已有的知识。科学和技术研究的研究生和社区导师将研究这些社区的社会和环境问题，以帮助找到与STEM研究的交叉点。一个工作室课程将创造新的教育技术，翻译格拉德生？STEM研究（如用于化学分析的微芯片）进入中学生学习实验室。而不是单向的？涓滴效应我们将探索知识的可能性，三重螺旋？大学，GK-12和社区知识生产之间的合作。

Graduate Teaching Fellows in Community Situated Research: The Triple Helix of University, K-12, and Community Knowledge ProductionInstitution: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)PI and Co-PI(s): Ron Eglash (RPI), Lupita Montoya (RPI), Jonathan Dordick (RPI), Daniel Stilson (Albany Schools)AbstractIn RPI?s Community Situated Research project, graduate fellows will examine the potential relations between their STEM research, and the social issues facing local low-income and minority communities (health, environment, poverty, crime, information access, etc.). These same local communities will also be the location for the fellows? middle school collaborative teaching program. Thus graduate fellows will gain a greater awareness of the connections between their research disciplines and pressing social issues, as well as the training that enables them to communicate these connections to the public. On the GK-12 side, studies show that many minority students are disinterested in STEM academics because they do not see its relevance to their particular lives. By working with graduate fellows trained as ?civic scientists,? (along with content from our international program) GK-12 teachers will gain new opportunities to engage those disenfranchised students. It is critical that graduate teaching fellows and their faculty mentors are empowered to select projects situated at the frontiers of STEM research, and not merely applications of established knowledge. Science and Technology Studies graduate students and community mentors will be researching the social and environmental issues in these communities to help find the intersections with STEM research. A studio class will create new educational technologies that translate the grad fellows? STEM research (eg microchips for chemical analysis) into learning labs for the middle school students. Rather than a one-way ?trickle-down? of knowledge, we will explore the possibilities for a ?triple helix? collaboration between university, GK-12, and community knowledge production.