Education and Community Viability in Western Alaska

阿拉斯加西部的教育和社区活力

• 批准号: 1108571
• 负责人: Marie Lowe
• 金额: $ 31.47万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Anchorage Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1108571&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Education; Community; Viability; Western; Alaska

This project examines education and community viability in Western Alaska by identifying a cross-section of youth and young adults across the Bering Sea region who have pursued post-secondary educational opportunities facilitated by the Community Development Quota (CDQ) program. The overarching research question is: Do opportunities in post-secondary education for youth contribute to the viability of Bering Sea communities and way of life? ?Viability? is defined by the degree to which a community can balance in- and out-migration, sustain a context of livelihood diversification, and create bridges to resources external to the community. In this project, the investigators propose to administer a survey to a random sample of scholarship and training grant recipients who received their awards between 2000 and 2005, conduct focused group interviews with current students, and develop regional profiles to understand if and how post-secondary educational opportunities affect Alaska?s rural youth and their communities.The investigators anticipate the project as designed will help identify the most effective strategies and pathways to success youth in Western Alaska coastal communities have employed and the ways in which this success may benefit their home communities. Specifically, the research is aimed to uncover the contexts in which Alaska youth can assume leadership, citizenship, and stewardship community roles in the future. By examining the context of how educational opportunities bridge Bering Sea youth and young adults with external resources or those beneficial to community viability, this research will help elucidate the ways in which the kinds of educational experiences the CDQ program provides is important not only for rural Alaska, but how the CDQ model might potentially have wider arctic or global applicability in other regions where there is large scale resource development juxtaposed to rural communities struggling with economic development.

该项目通过确定白令海地区的青年和年轻人的横截面来研究阿拉斯加西部的教育和社区生存能力，这些青年和年轻人在社区发展配额（CDQ）计划的推动下寻求中学后教育机会。最重要的研究问题是：青年接受高等教育的机会是否有助于白令海社区的生存和生活方式？ ？生存能力？定义为社区平衡迁入和迁出、维持生计多样化以及为社区外部资源建立桥梁的程度。 在这个项目中，研究人员建议对 2000 年至 2005 年间获得奖学金和培训补助金的随机样本进行一项调查，对在校学生进行重点小组访谈，并制定区域概况，以了解高等教育是否以及如何进行。教育机会影响阿拉斯加的农村青年及其社区。调查人员预计该项目的设计将有助于确定阿拉斯加西部沿海社区青年所采用的最有效的战略和成功途径，以及这种成功如何使他们的家庭受益社区。 具体来说，该研究旨在揭示阿拉斯加青年未来可以承担领导、公民和管理社区角色的背景。 通过研究教育机会如何为白令海青年和年轻人与外部资源或有利于社区生存的资源架起桥梁，这项研究将有助于阐明 CDQ 计划提供的教育体验类型不仅对阿拉斯加农村地区很重要，但是 CDQ 模型如何可能在北极或全球其他地区具有更广泛的适用性，这些地区有大规模的资源开发，而农村社区正在努力发展经济。