From Their Perspective: Alaskan Grandparents' Roles, Strengths, and Needs

从他们的角度来看：阿拉斯加祖父母的角色、优势和需求

• 批准号: 0909387
• 负责人: Tammy Henderson
• 金额: $ 115.06万
• 依托单位: Oklahoma State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0909387&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Their; Perspective; Alaskan; Grandparents; Roles

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Using a participatory action research model the research team will investigate the roles, strengths, and needs of Alaska Native grandparents residing in rural, semi-urban, and urban areas of Alaska. The research project will explore how grandparent roles, strengths, and needs have been shaped by larger factors, such as traditional practices, community changes, out migration, subsistence, and others factors defined by the participants. After meeting with communities and various levels of governing authorities,the investigators hope to gain additional insights into the factors that prove significant to lives of Alaska Native grandparents. The research team will use those insights to modify their research plan and instruments. This iterative process between researcher and community is the hallmark of participatory action research. The research team has chosen the participatory action model for this project because it gives the participant community a stronger voice in the research and the scientific researchers deeper insight into the project's potential. The project team believes this model is key in the case of working with Alaska Native grandparents, a population about which little has been written in the scientific literature. In addition the project leaders are obligated to developing outreach documents and fully informing communities about the research and the research results. The current project serves to enhance the professional development of undergraduate and graduate students, mentor future Arctic scientists, and develop culturally appropriate and respectful researchers, which improves communication between scientists and Alaskan Native communities. Data from the current project will be made available to others to enhance the dissemination of knowledge and wisdom offered by Alaska Native elders and grandparents.It is projected that the research will bring to light the similarities and unique aspects of grandparents in an arctic region and contribute to the body of literature on grandparenting, grandparents rearing grandchildren, and diversity among grandparenting, and the general literature in these and other disciplines: Gerontology, Psychology, Human Development and Family Science, Multicultural Diversity, and Anthropology.

该奖项是根据2009年的《美国复苏与再投资法》（公法111-5）资助的。通过参与式行动研究模型，研究小组将研究居住在阿拉斯加农村，半城市和城市地区的阿拉斯加土著祖父母的作用，优势和需求。该研究项目将探索祖父母的角色，优势和需求如何受到更大的因素，例如传统实践，社区变化，移民，生存以及参与者定义的其他因素。在与社区和各级管理当局会面之后，调查人员希望能够获得更多的见解，以了解对阿拉斯加土著祖父母生活显着的因素。 研究团队将使用这些见解来修改其研究计划和工具。研究人员与社区之间的这种迭代过程是参与行动研究的标志。研究团队选择了该项目的参与行动模型，因为它使参与者社区在研究中具有更强的声音，科学研究人员对项目潜力的深入了解。 项目团队认为，与阿拉斯加土著祖父母合作的情况下，该模型是关键，这是科学文献中几乎没有写的人口。 此外，项目负责人有义务制定外展文件，并充分向社区告知研究和研究结果。 当前的项目旨在增强本科生和研究生的专业发展，指导未来的北极科学家，并培养具有文化适当和尊重的研究人员，从而改善了科学家与阿拉斯加土著社区之间的沟通。 Data from the current project will be made available to others to enhance the dissemination of knowledge and wisdom offered by Alaska Native elders and grandparents.It is projected that the research will bring to light the similarities and unique aspects of grandparents in an arctic region and contribute to the body of literature on grandparenting, grandparents rearing grandchildren, and diversity among grandparenting, and the general literature in these and other disciplines: Gerontology,心理学，人类发展和家庭科学，多元文化多样性和人类学。