Collaborative Research: Place-based Research to Understand Youth Development: Integrating Dynamic and Culturally-Informed Models

该奖项将支持在宾夕法尼亚州立大学举行的为期两天的研讨会，该研讨会将汇集多学科学者，以提高对人们居住的地方如何影响他们的社会、情感和认知发展的理解。科学证据记录了社区和其他“活动空间”（如学校、工作场所和社会机构）如何影响发展。这次研讨会的目的是利用这些证据来帮助建立一个全面的、基于地点的科学。广义地说，基于地方的生命发展科学将认识到，不同的居住社区和活动空间可能使儿童、青少年和家庭面临不同的资源和风险。这些差异对发展具有重要影响。此外，迫切需要将种族、民族和文化的跨学科观点结合起来，以推进一门与日益多样化的美国社会相关且有意义的基于地点的科学。本次研讨会将加强理论和概念框架，以支持未来基于地点的关于整个生命周期发展的研究。这种研究可以解决与隔离、不平等和积极发展有关的重要社会问题。本次研讨会将允许一组学者共同努力：(1)整合社区和活动空间研究的现有理论基础；(2)批判性地分析这些理论基础如何结合科学证据，记录了整个生命周期发展过程中的种族、民族和文化多样性。此外，讲习班参与者将提出一套关于创新的、动态的、多层次的方法的建议，这些方法反映了讲习班在理论和概念上取得的进展。最后，与会者将讨论社区和活动空间研究的长期方法论挑战。讲习班期间的活动最后将提出一套研究问题和建议的方法，以确定下一个十年的研究议程。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support a two-day workshop at The Pennsylvania State University, which will bring together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to improve understanding of how the places people live in influence their social, emotional, and cognitive development. Scientific evidence has documented how neighborhoods and other "activity spaces"--such as schools, workplaces, and social institutions--influence development. The aim of this workshop is to use this evidence to help build a comprehensive, place-based science. Broadly speaking, a place-based science of lifespan development will recognize that different residential neighborhoods and activity spaces might expose children, youth, and families to different resources and risks. These differences have important implications for development. In addition, there is a critical need to incorporate transdisciplinary perspectives on race, ethnicity, and culture to advance a place-based science that is relevant and meaningful for an increasingly diverse U.S. society. This workshop will enhance the theoretical and conceptual frameworks that will support future place-based research on development across the lifespan. Such research can address important societal issues related to segregation, inequality, and positive development.This workshop will allow a group of scholars to work together to (1) integrate existing theoretical foundations of neighborhood and activity space research and (2) critically analyze how these theoretical foundations can incorporate scientific evidence that has documented racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity in developmental processes across the lifespan. Additionally, workshop participants will advance a set of recommendations on innovative, dynamic, multi-level approaches that reflect theoretical and conceptual advances made in the workshop. Finally, the participants will address long-term methodological challenges in neighborhood and activity space research. The activities during the workshop will culminate with a set of research questions and suggested approaches that will establish the next decade's research agenda.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.