Collaborative Research; Full-Scale Development; Native Universe - Indigenous Voice in Science Museums

原生宇宙：土著声音博物馆，土著教育研究所，加州大学伯克利分校和夏威夷大学希洛分校之间的合作，建立在成功的NSF资助的宇宙蛇合作（DRL 07-14631/DRL 07-14629）。Cosmic Serpent专业发展项目探索了本土和西方科学之间的共性，使参与者能够将STEM作为博物馆项目和展览的切入点。土著宇宙致力于通过创建一个专业发展方案，通过在方案中注入土著声音和重点关注环境变化的展览，促进系统的体制变革，从而进入下一个层次。将探讨的主题包括物种分布，环境脆弱性，人类系统的适应，以及地方，区域和全球层面的科学和政策问题。该项目旨在评估文化背景和接触与西方科学相结合的土著知识体系如何影响这些观点;发展可持续的机构能力，提出关于环境变化的多种观点;并在建立持久的实践社区的同时创造包容性模式。该项目的设计依赖于一个概念框架，其基础是关于土著声音和传统生态知识的文献以及目前的体制变革模式。前端、总结性和过程评价将解决与科学博物馆如何促进土著人参与和参与环境变化内容的介绍、准备阶段以及这一过程模式的出现有关的问题。数据收集的方法包括反思日志，事前事后问卷调查，并在多个点半结构化访谈，以衡量博物馆内的变化的程度和性质，以及如何改变发起，支持，并由工作人员持续。项目交付成果包括在9个月的驻留期间开发的三个博物馆案例研究、参观者的公共体验、最终的虚拟会议以及致力于在非正式科学教育中表达土著声音的博物馆之间的动态实践社区。博物馆驻地将在俄勒冈州科学与工业博物馆、亚利桑那州索诺拉沙漠博物馆和阿拉斯加北部博物馆举行。在Diné战略规划过程（包括启动、发展、实施和更新）之后，将在每个地点进行深入的案例研究，并将阿维尼翁米洛亚天文研究所作为机构变革的典范。在每个地点都确定了展览和方案，这些展览和方案将加以开发或扩大，以纳入环境变化内容和当地观点。将通过出版物、会议介绍、视频、网络研讨会（每年四次）和虚拟会议传播项目成果。除了博物馆工作人员的专业观众外，预计该项目将影响到合作机构的120多万游客。原生宇宙可以为该领域提供有价值的解释工具，以理解和解决与整合文化视角和科学内容相关的挑战。博物馆案例研究将有助于了解科学学习的文化过程，并可能通过利用土著声音从文化角度提高公众对环境变化的认识和理解，改变博物馆展示科学的方式。总体效益是增加了土著个人对STEM的参与，并提高了环境变化领域的公众科学素养。

Native Universe: Indigenous Voice in Museums, a collaboration between the Indigenous Education Institute, University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Hawaii at Hilo, builds on the successful NSF-funded Cosmic Serpent collaborative (DRL 07-14631/DRL 07-14629). The Cosmic Serpent professional development project explores commonalities between native and western science, enabling participants to use STEM as an entry point for museum programs and exhibits. Native Universe endeavors to move to the next level by creating a professional development program which fosters systemic institutional change through the infusion of indigenous voice in programs and exhibits focusing on environmental change. Topics to be explored include species distribution, environmental vulnerability, adaptation of human systems, and science and policy issues on the local, regional, and global levels. This project is designed to assess how cultural background and exposure to indigenous knowledge systems integrated with western science influence these perspectives; develop sustainable institutional competence in presenting multiple perspectives on environmental change; and create models for inclusion while building an enduring community of practice. The project design relies upon a conceptual framework grounded in the literature on indigenous voice and traditional ecological knowledge, as well as current models for institutional change. Front-end, summative, and process evaluation will address questions related to how science museums facilitate engagement and inclusion of indigenous voice in the presentation of environmental change content, stages of readiness, and the emergence of models for this process. Methods for data collection include reflective logs, pre-post questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews at multiple points to measure the degree and nature of change within museums, as well as how change was initiated, supported, and sustained by staff. Project deliverables include three museum case studies developed during 9-month residencies, public experiences for visitors, a culminating virtual conference, and a dynamic community of practice among museums committed to indigenous voice in informal science education. The museum residencies will take place at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and the Museum of the North in Alaska. Intensive case studies will be conducted at each site following the Diné Strategic Planning Process (consisting of initiation, growth, implementation, and renewal) and featuring the Ìmiloa Astronomy Institute as a model for institutional change. Exhibits and programs have been identified at each site that will be developed or expanded to integrate environmental change content and native perspectives. Dissemination of the project findings will be accomplished through publications, conference presentations, videos, webinars (four per year), and the virtual conference. It is anticipated that this project will impact over 1.2 million visitors at the collaborating institutions, in addition to the professional audience of museum staff. Native Universe may provide valuable interpretive tools for the field to understand and address the challenges associated with integrating cultural perspectives and science content. The museum case studies will contribute knowledge about the cultural process of science learning, and may transform the way science is presented in museums by leveraging indigenous voice to enhance public awareness and understanding of environmental change from a culturally-grounded perspective. The overall benefit is increased participation of indigenous individuals in STEM and increased public science literacy in the area of environmental change.