NSF Ideas Labs: Workforce Development Needs in Geosciences

这个项目测试并促进了创造性的问题解决方法，以产生根本创新的研究议程。这个项目建立了一个自然的实验来检查一个过程，这个过程在一个新的协作过程中发展多学科研究团队，以参与潜在的变革性想法的开发。具体地说，该项目采用参与式行动研究(PAR)方法来研究现实世界的问题解决情况，以便：(1)反复检查协作和创造性问题解决所涉及的复杂的社会和智力过程，以及(2)在本科STEM教育中制定新的跨学科研究议程，以满足地球科学特有的劳动力需求。因此，该项目的影响有可能成为多学科研究小组之间复杂的协作过程的展示，作为对参与协作和创造性问题解决的社会和个人过程的检验，以及作为记录为满足当今地球科学的劳动力需求所需的极具创新性的研究议程的发展的一种手段。

This project tests and facilitates a creative problem solving methodology, in order to produce radically innovative research agendas. This project establishes a natural experiment to examine a process that develops multi-disciplinary research teams in a novel collaborative process to engage in the development of potentially transformative ideas. Specifically, the project adapts a participatory action research (PAR) approach to study a real world problem solving situation in order to: (1) iteratively examine the complex social and intellectual processes involved in collaboration and in creative problem solving and (2) develop novel interdisciplinary research agendas in undergraduate STEM education that address workforce needs unique to the Geosciences. Thus, the project's impact has potential for serving as a demonstration of the complex process of collaboration in multi-disciplinary research groups, as a test of social and individual processes involved in collaboration and in creative problem solving, and as a means for documenting the development of radically innovative research agendas needed to address today's workforce needs in the Geosciences.