Collaborative Research: EAGER: Voices Of Integrating Culture in the Earth Sciences (VOICES)

将文化融入地球科学之声(VOICES)是一项合作试点研究，其重点是寻找新的途径，消除在招募、保留和代表不同种族、族裔和文化群体方面的顽固障碍，包括残疾人的交叉性。VOICES有助于提高人们对文化知识和地球科学多样性、公平性和包容性方面最佳做法的认识，影响到STEM社区的更广泛群体。该项目将针对与个人身份、归属感、地方历史和代表人数不足的少数群体的安全感有关的关键参与领域。Voice在社会行为框架内使用创造性的策略，来解决那些有可能从一个历史上独一无二的学科的传统和遗产转变为一个更加多样化的地球科学社区的因素。包括来自不同文化价值观和观点的声音，这些声音通常被低估，这可能导致改变排他性的教学、学习和研究实践。通过强调个人的声音作为集体整体的一部分，一个更强大、更觉醒和更具包容性的社区有可能改变战略，让领导者和学习者参与到地球科学学科中来。将文化融入地球科学项目将唤起分类故事和个人文化认同的力量，尽管教授和学习地球科学的传统期望、价值观和方法仍然存在。声音有四个主要元素：身份、归属、地点和安全。每个要素反映了不同学生、教师和专业人员群体在地球科学教育中的不同情况(例如，实地和课堂学习环境以及职业发展)。利用各种社会行为方法，包括调查、焦点小组和3个专题讲习班，声音将通过地球科学中通常代表性不足的人的视角，集中讨论身份、归属感、位置和安全的相互关系。专题讲习班(Nagaajiwanaang、Barataria和Potomac)利用文化历史和地点，围绕将文化纳入实地经验的多样性和包容性办法，确定讲习班活动和成果。Voice代表了一种新颖的高度跨学科的方法，将导致：1)通过在多个代表性不足的群体中扩大对文化和跨部门知识的认识，建立一个更具文化活力的科学界；2)建立一个国家多样性倡导者网络Voice Net作为一个可持续的交流平台；以及3)设计和部署最佳的文化包容性做法，以欢迎来自地球科学中代表性不足的群体的所有学生和科学家。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Voices of Integrating Culture in the Earth Sciences (VOICES) is a collaborative pilot study focused on identifying new pathways to dismantle persistent barriers in the recruitment, retention, and representation of different racial, ethnic and cultural groups, including the intersectionality of those with disabilities.VOICES contributes to a greater awareness of cultural knowledge and best practices in diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Earth sciences, with implications of reaching a broader segment of the STEM community. This project will target key areas of engagement related to personal identity, feeling of belonging, history of place, and sense of security from underrepresented minorities. VOICES uses creative strategies within a social behavioral framework, to address those elements that have the potential to shift from the traditions and legacies of a historically exclusive discipline into a more diverse Earth science community. Including voices from distinct cultural values and perspectives that are commonly undervalued, can result in changing exclusionary teaching, learning, and research practices. By highlighting individual voices as part of a collective whole, a more powerful, awakened, and inclusive community has the potential to transform strategies to engage leaders and learners in Earth science disciplines.The Voices of Integrating Culture in the Earth Sciences project will invoke the power of disaggregated stories and individual cultural identities that persevere despite the traditional expectations, values, and methods of teaching and learning Earth science. VOICES has four primary elements: Identity, Belonging, Place, and Security. Each element reflects different contexts within Earth science education (e.g., field and classroom learning environments, and career development) for groups of diverse students, faculty and professionals. Using a mixture of social behavioral approaches including surveys focus groups and 3 thematic workshops, VOICES will focus on the interrelationship of Identity, Belonging, Place and Security through the lens of those who are commonly underrepresented in the Earth sciences. Thematic workshops (Nagaajiwanaang, Barataria and Potomac) use cultural histories and places to anchor workshop activities and outcomes around diversity and inclusion approaches to integrating culture in field experiences. VOICES represents a novel and highly interdisciplinary approach will lead to: 1) a more culturally robust science community through broadening the awareness of cultural and intersectional knowledge across multiple underrepresented groups, 2) the establishment of a national diversity champions network VOICES Net as a sustainable communication platform, and 3) the design and deployment of best culturally inclusive practices for welcoming all students and scientists from groups underrepresented in the Earth sciences.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.