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

地球科学整合文化之声（Voices）是一项合作试点研究，旨在寻找新的途径，消除在招聘、保留和代表不同种族、民族和文化群体方面的持续障碍，包括残疾人的交叉性。VOICES有助于提高对地球科学多样性、公平性和包容性方面的文化知识和最佳实践的认识，并影响到STEM社区的更广泛部分。该项目将针对与个人身份、归属感、地方历史和未被充分代表的少数群体的安全感相关的关键参与领域。VOICES在社会行为框架内使用创造性策略，以解决那些有可能从历史上排他性学科的传统和遗产转变为更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，通常被低估，可以改变排他性的教学、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、更包容的社区有可能改变战略，吸引地球科学学科的领导者和学习者。在地球科学项目中融入文化的声音将唤起分解的故事和个人文化身份的力量，尽管传统的期望、价值观和教学和学习地球科学的方法仍然存在。VOICES有四个基本元素：身份、归属、地点和安全。每个元素都反映了地球科学教育的不同背景（例如，实地和课堂学习环境以及职业发展），适用于不同的学生、教师和专业人员群体。VOICES将使用社会行为方法，包括调查焦点小组和3个专题研讨会，透过地球科学领域通常未被充分代表的群体的视角，关注身份、归属、地点和安全之间的相互关系。专题讲习班（Nagaajiwanaang、Barataria和Potomac）利用文化历史和地点，围绕多样性和包容性方法，将文化融入实地经验，确定讲习班活动和成果。voice代表了一种新颖和高度跨学科的方法，将导致：1)通过在多个未被充分代表的群体中扩大文化和交叉知识的意识，建立一个文化上更强大的科学社区；2)建立一个国家多样性倡导者网络VOICES Net，作为一个可持续的交流平台；3)设计和部署最佳文化包容性实践，欢迎所有来自地球科学中未被充分代表的群体的学生和科学家。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。

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.