GSE/RES- Collaborative Research - Practical Logic of STEM Career Choice: A Critical Interpretive approach to profiling IT Career Pathways of African American Males at HBCUs

GSE/RES- 合作研究 - STEM 职业选择的实用逻辑：一种批判性解释方法来分析 HBCU 中非裔美国男性的 IT 职业道路

• 批准号: 1232204
• 负责人: Kshiti Joshi
• 金额: $ 27.99万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1232204&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GSE; RES; Collaborative; Research; Practical

Intellectual Merit: This research study focuses on critically examining and tracing the career pathways of successful African American male college students who have opted to pursue IT-related careers. Grounded in the theory of power and practice posited by Pierre Bourdieu, the study uncovers the practical logics that African American men employ when making career choices to pursue IT-related disciplines. The sample consists of 100 African American male students who have expressed interest in IT careers and who are currently enrolled at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). A small sample of African American men at Predominantly White Institutions is also included. The researchers use a critical interpretive approach in which concepts of capital, field and habitus are employed as a framework to build and verify midrange theories about this historically underserved group's engagement with IT by focusing on group-level experiences that influence their decision to pursue an IT career. The research includes conducting person-centered analysis that is well grounded in theory and employs rigorous qualitative approaches. The proposed work contributes to the limited literature on African American men's academic success and helps clarify some of the mixed and contradictory findings about their career choices that exist in the current literature. Broader Impacts: The results of this research reveal how and which social structures enable or constrain African American men's IT-related career choices; information which may be useful to policy makers, teachers and school counselors, and that may inform the creation of innovative interventions. Findings may also contribute to the increase in the STEM workforce while expanding the career options for African American men who are historically disproportionately affected by economic downturns. The research continues a collaboration between Washington State University and Pennsylvania State University as well as strengthens ongoing partnerships with the four participating HBCUs.

智力优势：这项研究的重点是批判性地审视和追踪选择从事 IT 相关职业的成功非裔美国男大学生的职业道路。该研究以皮埃尔·布迪厄 (Pierre Bourdieu) 提出的权力与实践理论为基础，揭示了非洲裔美国男性在选择从事 IT 相关学科的职业时所采用的实践逻辑。该样本由 100 名非裔美国男学生组成，他们表示对 IT 职业感兴趣，目前就读于传统黑人学院和大学 (HBCU)。 还包括在以白人为主的机构中的一小部分非裔美国男性样本。研究人员采用批判性解释方法，将资本、场域和惯习等概念用作框架，通过关注影响他们追求 IT 决策的群体层面的经验，构建和验证关于这个历史上服务不足的群体参与 IT 的中层理论。职业。该研究包括进行以人为本的分析，该分析具有良好的理论基础并采用严格的定性方法。拟议的工作为有关非裔美国男性学术成功的有限文献做出了贡献，并有助于澄清当前文献中存在的关于其职业选择的一些混合且矛盾的发现。更广泛的影响：这项研究的结果揭示了社会结构如何以及哪些社会结构促进或限制非裔美国男性与 IT 相关的职业选择；这些信息可能对政策制定者、教师和学校辅导员有用，并且可以为创新干预措施的制定提供信息。研究结果还可能有助于增加 STEM 劳动力，同时扩大非裔美国男性的职业选择，这些男性历来受到经济衰退的影响尤为严重。该研究继续了华盛顿州立大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学之间的合作，并加强了与四个参与的 HBCU 之间的持续合作关系。