FW-HTF-P: Building Upon New Learning Theories To Attract And Retain The Skilled Workforce Of The Future In The Construction Trades

人类技术前沿未来工作（FW-HTF-P）项目的总体目标是创造技术创新，以招募和留住大量多样化的工人，目的是防止建筑行业出现严重的劳动力短缺。具体而言，该项目开发奖将支持一项试点研究，以确定与技术采用相关的障碍以及建筑行业对新技术的抵制。研究结果将被应用于创建干预措施，以克服社区学院和贸易学校培训计划中的这些障碍，帮助准备一个庞大的，技术熟练的，包容性的劳动力-包括妇女和其他群体传统上在建筑职业中代表性不足-为满足个人和行业需求的职业生涯。研究人员将进行一项试点研究，重点是建筑行业，以确定与技术采用相关的障碍和行业内的阻力。这项工作将建立在2021年开发的基础框架上，以阐明影响英国石油和天然气行业技术吸收的潜在心理因素。通过访谈、实地观察和全国范围的调查，研究人员将试图确定影响建筑行业技术采用的心理因素。该团队结合了建筑行业的教育实践，对成人学习/劳动力发展相关方法的理解，与人类技术界面相关原则的应用经验，以及系统思维在复杂社会挑战中的实际应用。跨学科方法旨在确定人类技术前沿的变革性学习技术，这些技术将彻底改变建筑业中使用的教育方法，减少劳动力短缺，并鼓励在行业中终身普及学习。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 overarching goal of this Future of Work at the Human Technology Frontier (FW-HTF-P) project is to enable the creation of technology innovations to recruit and retain a large and diverse pool of workers, with the objective of forestalling an acute labor shortage in the building trades. Specifically, this Project Development award will support a pilot study to identify the barriers associated with technology adoption and resistance to new technology within the construction building trades. The results will be applied to create interventions to overcome these barriers within community college and trade school training programs, to help prepare a large, technically skilled, and inclusive workforce -- including women and other groups traditionally underrepresented in construction occupations -- for careers that meet individual and industry needs. The researchers will conduct a pilot study focused upon the construction building trades to identify the barriers associated with technology adoption and the resistance within the trades. The work will build upon a foundational framework developed in 2021 to elucidate the underlying psychological factors that influence technology uptake in the British oil and gas industry. Through interviews, field observations and nationwide surveys, the researchers will seek to identify the psychological factors that influence technology adoption within the construction trades. The team combines education practice in the construction industry, an understanding of the methodologies associated with adult learning/workforce development, experience with the application of principles associated with the human technology interface, and practical application of systems thinking to complex societal challenges. The interdisciplinary approach seeks to identify transformational learning technologies at the human technology frontier that will revolutionize the educational methodologies used in construction reducing the labor shortage and encourage life-long pervasive learning in the trades.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.