PPD: FASED: Shaping Vocational Frontiers: Science, Engineering, and Mathematics for Persons with Disabilities in Rural and Remote Areas

PPD：FASED：塑造职业前沿：农村和偏远地区残疾人的科学、工程和数学

• 批准号: 9906344
• 负责人: Richard Radtke
• 金额: $ 47.44万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-07-01 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9906344&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PPD; FASED; Shaping; Vocational; Frontiers

Improving education and inclusion of students with disabilities in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) through camps, science fairs and other programs are imperative to the diversification of our future SMET work force. Students with disabilities in remote and rural regions are much less likely to have access to SMET resources because of their geographic location. Additionally, students with disabilities and their families are often strapped financially due to excessive costs in transportation, adaptive technologies, support personnel, personal care, and architectural adaptations. After families pay for these essentials, SMET camps and programs often are a financial burden. As one step in our project, we plan to collaborate with existing SMET camps and programs, to demonstrate that all camps can be appropriate for students with disabilities. This would enable students in rural and remote regions such as Alaska to participate fully in science and math education experiences leading to careers in SMET. The Shaping Vocational Frontiers Project will be directed by Drs. Radtke and Owens with assistance from Access Alaska. Dr. Radtke is a well known scientist and community activist and Dr. Owens is an experienced researcher and teacher, outdoor educator and inventor. Both men have severe disabilities and are intimately familiar with the problems faced by persons with disabilities in SMET related activities. Access Alaska will be instrumental in training, camp accessibility, and network development. The project will create a program that involves a core of students, families, scientists, educators, and university-level science teacher trainers. This amalgam will strive to enhance the opportunities for acquiring SMET education for students with disabilities throughout Alaska. As a group we will work towards this goal through changes in science education curriculum, educational practices, and policy in the state. We plan to identify students with disabilities across the state who can benefit from this program and provide them with hands-on, field-based science. We will emphasize activities that provide for integration of students with disabilities with their traditional counterparts who do not have disabilities. Role models and mentors, many with disabilities themselves, will advise, problem solve, and guide both individual students and heterogeneous teams of students (consisting of both able-bodied and students with disabilities) in these activities. The appropriate assistive technology will be used in concert with Internet to insure that students with disabilities will be fully included in SMET activities, Electronic technology (including the Internet) will be used to encourage networking and information dissemination among student teams, educational organizations, administrators, and members of the community. The project will be carefully documented for public television and Internet venues. All publications produced by the project will be available through fully accessible electronic media.

通过夏令营、科学博览会和其他项目改善残疾学生在科学、数学、工程和技术 (SMET) 方面的教育和包容性，对于我们未来 SMET 劳动力的多元化至关重要。 由于地理位置的原因，偏远和农村地区的残疾学生获得 SMET 资源的可能性要小得多。 此外，由于交通、适应性技术、支持人员、个人护理和建筑改造成本过高，残疾学生及其家人常常陷入经济困境。 在家庭支付这些必需品费用后，SMET 营地和项目往往会成为经济负担。 作为我们项目的第一步，我们计划与现有的 SMET 营地和项目合作，以证明所有营地都适合残疾学生。 这将使阿拉斯加等农村和偏远地区的学生能够充分参与科学和数学教育，从而在 SMET 中找到职业生涯。 塑造职业前沿项目将由博士指导。拉特克和欧文斯在 Access Alaska 的帮助下。 拉特克博士是一位著名的科学家和社区活动家，欧文斯博士是一位经验丰富的研究员和教师、户外教育家和发明家。 两人均患有严重残疾，并且非常熟悉残疾人在 SMET 相关活动中面临的问题。 Access Alaska 将有助于培训、营地无障碍和网络发展。 该项目将创建一个以学生、家庭、科学家、教育工作者和大学级科学教师培训师为核心的项目。 这一合并将努力增加阿拉斯加各地残疾学生接受 SMET 教育的机会。 作为一个团队，我们将通过改变科学教育课程、教育实践和国家政策来实现这一目标。 我们计划在全州范围内找出可以从该计划中受益的残疾学生，并为他们提供实践性的、基于实地的科学知识。 我们将强调促进残疾学生与传统的非残疾学生融合的活动。 榜样和导师（其中许多人本身就是残疾人）将在这些活动中为个别学生和异质学生团队（包括身体健全的学生和残疾学生）提供建议、解决问题和指导。 适当的辅助技术将与互联网结合使用，以确保残疾学生充分参与 SMET 活动，电子技术（包括互联网）将用于鼓励学生团队、教育组织、管理人员之间的联网和信息传播，和社区成员。 该项目将被仔细记录在公共电视和互联网场所。 该项目制作的所有出版物将通过完全可访问的电子媒体提供。