Indigenous Hawaiian Knowledge/Ike Hawaii Pop-up Science Center: Exploring the Effectiveness of Community-driven, Culturally Sustaining STEM Exhibit Development

数千年来，夏威夷土著/太平洋岛民（NHPI）海员成功地利用对环境的系统观察，穿越广阔的开放海洋，并在地球上最偏远的岛屿上茁壮成长。在科学事业中建立NHPI信任需要建立联系，将“传统知识”的价值观和概念与科学知识系统和当代技术联系起来。这个项目将开发和研究一个快闪式科学展览，将夏威夷土著知识与当代西方科学概念联系起来。该展览将展示社区知识（与基本的科学原理和自然法则相一致）如何为土著人民的创新提供信息。这个由社区发起和开发的项目将以一个单一的弹出式展览开始，旨在结合几个基于文化的实践STEM活动，将传统和现代技术结合起来。例如，展览可能会涵盖用于远洋航行的本土导航系统，用于食物和水容器的网系统，或使用当地和天然材料的家居设计系统。该项目旨在为这种方法的有效性提供初步证据，以支持夏威夷农村青年对夏威夷本土STEM知识的参与、理解和个人联系。这项试点和可行性研究的结果将为以夏威夷本土STEM知识为基础的更大的弹出式科学中心的发展提供信息，并通过帮助非正式STEM教育从业者了解社区发起和开发的STEM展览，推进围绕文化可持续教学法的知识知识。这个快闪式科学中心试点项目将由夏威夷当地社区组织INPEACE牵头，并与一些当地社区成员和其他社区组织合作。初步研究将反复探索是否以及如何使用现有的夏威夷文化框架来设计动手干展览，以提高农村学习者的参与度，STEM知识的深度，以及与夏威夷本土STEM知识的联系。卡美哈美哈学校（Kamehameha Schools）在开展土著世界观研究方面有着悠久的历史，它将吸引来自夏威夷各个农村社区的120名学习者，其中40名将是预选的中学生，80名将来自12岁及以上的公众学习者。本研究将透过一系列的观察、访谈、问卷调查及焦点小组等方法，探讨学生对科学实践的看法，以及科学实践与夏威夷新旧社会及现代社会的关系。(2)相关STEM主题的理解水平，以及(3)学习者对他们与夏威夷原住民STEM知识联系的看法。这项初步研究的结果将为未来的弹出式科学中心发展项目提供信息，并为社区驱动、文化可持续的展览发展提供文献。该项目由美国国家科学基金会推进非正式STEM学习计划资助，该计划旨在推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括提供多种途径，扩大STEM学习经验的获取和参与，推进非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估，以及发展参与者对深度学习的理解。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。

For thousands of years, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NHPI) seafarers have successfully utilized systemic observation of their environment to traverse vast expanses of open ocean and thrive on the most remote islands on earth. Developing NHPI trust in the scientific enterprise requires building connections that bridge the values and concepts of ‘ike kupuna (traditional knowledge) with scientific knowledge systems and contemporary technology. This project will develop and research a pop-up science exhibit that connects indigenous Hawaiian knowledge with contemporary Western science concepts. The exhibit will show how community knowledge (that is consistent with underlying scientific principles and natural laws) has informed innovation by indigenous peoples. This community-initiated and developed project will begin with a single pop-up exhibit designed to incorporate several hands-on culture-based STEM activities that integrate traditional and modern technologies. For example, the exhibit may cover indigenous systems of star navigation for ocean voyaging, systems of netting for food and water containers, or systems of home design with local and natural materials. This project seeks to develop preliminary evidence of the effectiveness of such an approach for supporting rural Hawaiian youths’ STEM engagement, understanding, and personal connections to Native Hawaiian STEM knowledge. Findings from this pilot and feasibility study will inform the development of a larger pop-up science center grounded in indigenous Hawaiian STEM knowledge, and advance intellectual knowledge around culturally sustaining pedagogy by helping informal STEM education practitioners understand community initiated and developed STEM exhibits. This pop-up science center pilot will be led by a local Hawaiian community organization, INPEACE, in collaboration with several local community members and other community-based organizations. The preliminary research will iteratively explore whether and how an existing Hawaiian culture-based framework can be used to design hands-on STEM exhibits to enhance rural learner engagement, depth of STEM knowledge, and connection to Native Hawaiian STEM knowledge. Research efforts led by Kamehameha Schools, which has a long history of conducting research from an indigenous worldview, will engage 120 learners from various rural communities across Hawaii, from which 40 will be pre-selected middle-school youth, and 80 individuals will be from public audiences of learners ages 12 and up. Through a series of observations, interviews, pre and post surveys with validated instruments, and focus groups, the research will probe: (1) The learners’ thoughts on the science practice and its relevance to old and new Hawaii and modern society. (2) The level at which related STEM topics have been understood, and (3) The learners’ perceptions about their connection to Native Hawaiian STEM knowledge. Results from this pilot study will inform a future pop-up science center development project, and add to the scarce literature on community-driven, culturally sustaining exhibition development. This project is funded by the NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants.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.