Workshop on Diversifying and Deepening Engagement and Learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM): Bringing Together Dutch and U.S. Scholars

这次关于STEM多样化和深化参与与学习的研讨会将把来自美国和荷兰的研究人员聚集在一起，交流思想并促进合作。在国际上，人们广泛认识到，人口中有太少的人深入接触和了解STEM。这种狭隘的接触对全球各地个人的前景产生了负面影响。使深入参与STEM的儿童和青年群体多样化，并为他们提供得到充分支持的在STEM深入学习的机会，将通过积极影响研究和开发来促进STEM的进步。思想、视角、经验和准备质量的多样性提高了STEM研究的创新性和质量。研讨会及其产品将通过增加学者对多样化和深化参与和学习的相关研究的知识，并通过在对这些问题有共同兴趣和承诺的研究人员之间建立更紧密的联系，来促进STEM教育。由这次研讨会引发的STEM教育努力将通过提高个人的生活质量并使公众更广泛地参与STEM提供的信息来促进国家健康、繁荣和福利。研讨会吸引了一批来自美国和荷兰的有影响力的学者参加，他们的工作对学校内外的STEM教育的创新研究和开发做出了贡献。讲习班的主题指的是使深入参与STEM的年轻人群体多样化的关键目标，包括在全球和每个国家历史上代表性不足的群体，同时促进更深入的STEM学习。在整个研讨会期间，与会者将研究两个问题：(1)促进和阻碍扩大STEM参与和学习的关键社会、文化和系统背景是什么？(2)研究人员如何更好地理解它们，教育工作者如何更好地解决它们？在美国和荷兰的国家背景下的比较工作将允许双向阐明原本可能只是给定的或不可避免的问题，当从单一的国家立场进行审查时。聚集的学者将探讨通过非正式和正式的学习机会，支持和保持年轻人对STEM的兴趣、认同感和深度学习的挑战和机会。讲习班的一项重要成果将是免费向STEM教育界和公众广泛提供一份白皮书。白皮书将总结现有文献以及对进一步研究的讨论、框架和建议。白皮书的编写和定稿过程将集中讲习班与会者的注意力，并使能够为教育行动和未来研究提供信息的理论和研究机构更加清晰。此外，研讨会期间形成的兴趣小组将考虑开发更多可以向STEM教育界提供信息的产品，如期刊特刊、编辑卷、研究和实践简报或其他合作。

This workshop on Diversifying and Deepening Engagement and Learning in STEM will bring together researchers from the United States and the Netherlands to exchange ideas and foster collaboration. Internationally, there is broad recognition that far too narrow a segment of the population is deeply engaged with and knowledgeable about STEM. This narrow engagement negatively affects the prospects of individuals across the globe. Diversifying the pool of children and young adults deeply engaged with STEM, and providing them with well-supported opportunities for deeper learning in STEM, will promote the progress of STEM by positively impacting research and development. Diversity of thought, perspective, experience and quality of preparation improve innovation and the quality of STEM research. The workshop and its products will advance STEM education by enhancing scholars' knowledge of relevant research on diversifying and deepening engagement and learning, and by creating stronger ties among researchers with common interests in and commitment to these issues. STEM education efforts sparked by this workshop will advance national health, prosperity, and welfare by improving individuals' quality of life and enabling broader public participation in democratic processes that are informed by STEM. The workshop involves a select group of influential scholars from the U.S. and Netherlands whose work contributes to innovative research and development on STEM education both within and beyond schools. The workshop's theme refers to the key goal of diversifying the pool of young people deeply engaged with STEM, including groups historically underrepresented globally and in each nation, while also fostering deeper STEM learning. Throughout the workshop, participants will examine two questions: (1) What are the key social, cultural, and systemic contexts that facilitate and impede broadening STEM participation and learning? (2) How might researchers better understand them, and educators better address them? Comparative work across the U.S. and Netherlands national contexts will allow for bidirectional illumination of issues that might otherwise appear to be merely given or inevitable when examined from a single national standpoint. Gathered scholars will explore the challenges and opportunities for supporting and sustaining interest in, identification with, and deep learning of STEM among young people, through informal and formal learning opportunities. A key outcome of the workshop will be a white paper made freely and widely available to the STEM education community and the general public. The white paper will summarize existing literature and the discussion, framings, and suggestions for further research. The process of constructing and finalizing the white paper will focus the attention of participants in the workshop, and result in greater clarity about the body of theory and research that can inform educational action and future research. In addition, interest groups that form during the workshop will consider pursuing additional products that can inform the STEM education community, such as a journal special issue, an edited volume, research and practice briefs, or other collaborations.