Understanding and Catalyzing Equity-Oriented Change in Museums and Science Centers

理解并促进博物馆和科学中心以公平为导向的变革

• 批准号: 1516255
• 负责人: Noah Feinstein
• 金额: $ 122.89万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-15 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1516255&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Understanding; Catalyzing; Equity; Oriented; Change

This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants. This study will contribute to these goals by providing empirical evidence about how and under what circumstances science museums, science centers, and other designed settings for informal science education (ISE) can change so that they will reach more diverse audiences with the full range of their educational activities. This study will deepen understanding of equity norms and practices at ISE organizations, as well as the internal and contextual factors that shape them.The project builds on a unique opportunity provided by the widely known and critically acclaimed exhibition "RACE: Are We So Different?" After traveling to dozens of museums and science centers, and being seen by over three million people, RACE is returning home to the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) where it was created. Strand 1 of this study will examine the processes underlying organizational change at SMM as it attempts to use RACE to leverage organization-wide change. In Strand 2, the project team will compare the experiences of ISE organizations around the country that hosted RACE, focusing on the conditions that influence reflection and lead to (or prevent) lasting impact. These two studies will inform the design of Strand 3: a national survey on equity norms and practices, and the potential for equity-related change, in designed settings for ISE. Four research questions guide all project activities: 1)How can such Informal Science Education organizations leverage an unusual event, such as a traveling exhibition, to catalyze and sustain change in their equity-related norms and practices? 2) How and when does the deep reflection required to change entrenched norms and practices manifest itself in ISE organizations that attempt to change their equity norms and practices? 3) What contextual factors support or oppose the achievement and maintenance of organization-wide changes in equity norms and practices? 4) How common are these supportive and opposing conditions in the institutional field of museums and science centers, and how prevalent are different norms and practices related to equity?

该项目由非正式的STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推进对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括提供多种途径，以扩大对STEM学习经验的访问和参与度，推进对非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究，并发展参与者对更深入学习的理解。 这项研究将通过提供有关如何以及在什么情况下提供科学博物馆，科学中心和其他设计非正式科学教育（ISE）设计环境的经验证据，从而为这些目标做出贡献，以便他们通过各种教育活动来吸引更多的受众。这项研究将加深对ISE组织的公平规范和实践的理解，以及塑造它们的内部和背景因素。该项目建立在众所周知且广受好评的展览“种族：我们与众不同”的独特机会基础上。 在前往数十个博物馆和科学中心，被超过300万人看到之后，种族正在返回明尼苏达州科学博物馆（SMM）的家中。本研究的链链将研究SMM的组织变革的基础过程，因为它试图利用种族来利用组织范围内的变革。在Strand 2中，项目团队将比较举办种族的ISE组织的经验，重点关注影响反思的条件并导致（或预防）持久影响。这两项研究将在ISE的设计环境中为Strand 3：Strand 3的设计：全国性的关于股权规范和实践的调查，以及与股权相关的变化的潜力。四个研究问题指南所有项目活动：1）这种非正式的科学教育组织如何利用不寻常的事件（例如巡回展览）来催化和维持与股票相关的规范和实践的变化？ 2）改变根深蒂固的规范和实践所需的深层反思在试图改变其股权规范和实践的ISE组织中表现出来？ 3）哪些背景因素支持或反对股票规范和实践的整个组织变化的成就和维护？ 4）在博物馆和科学中心的机构领域，这些支持和相反的条件有多普遍，与公平相关的不同规范和实践是多么普遍？