RCN: Transformative Research in Geography Education

RCN：地理教育的变革性研究

• 批准号: 1560862
• 负责人: Michael Solem
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Association of American Geographers
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560862&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; Transformative; Research; Geography; Education

This project will build a research coordination network (RCN) that enables transformative research in geography education, defined as pioneering research activities with strong potential to inform broad-scale improvements in U.S. geography education. The National Center for Research in Geography Education will coordinate this research network. The project will strengthen geography education research processes by creating the networks, opportunities for interdisciplinary conversations, and publicly-available datasets and scientific resources that ultimately result in sustainable lines of research. Through a collaborative process involving dozens of universities and major geography organizations, the project will create a self-sustaining RCN whose members pursue multiple active lines of research that engender evidence-based practices, new knowledge and theory, more robust curricula, better standards and assessments, and expanded access to high-quality teacher training programs in geography. In practical terms, the RCN will work to raise the profile of geography education as a research field. Doing so will help the participating universities recruit more diverse cohorts of graduate students, increase faculty research productivity, and promote the use of research to improve the quality of geography teaching and learning in local communities. The need for transformative research in geography education was given in-depth consideration by The Road Map for 21st Century Geography Education project funded by NSF from 2011-2013. The Road Map Project, which built on many prior efforts to assess the state of research in geography education, issued a landmark study and research agenda in 2013. The Road Map report considers many substantive issues as to what research topics and questions are most critical for ensuring long-term progress and improvements in student achievement. It also draws attention to the important methodological issue of how geography education research that aspires to be transformative should be designed. The Road Map Project's research agenda offers a set of recommendations for building research capacity and capability in geography education. It emphasizes scientific approaches to research planning and design as a strategy for moving beyond the descriptive, singular and anecdotal studies that at present characterize the geography education literature. Enacting this vision will require considerable coordination, collaboration and information sharing among geographers and educational researchers in other disciplines. This RCN project will, for the first time, provide the infrastructure needed to carry out this work.

该项目将建立一个研究协调网络（RCN），该网络能够在地理教育中进行变革性研究，定义为开拓性的研究活动，具有强大潜力，可以为美国地理教育的广泛改进提供信息。国家地理教育研究中心将协调该研究网络。该项目将通过创建网络，跨学科对话的机会以及公共可用的数据集和科学资源来加强地理教育研究过程，最终导致可持续的研究线索。通过涉及数十所大学和主要地理组织的协作过程，该项目将创建一个自我维持的RCN，其成员追求多种积极的研究线，从而引发基于证据的实践，新知识和理论，更强大的课程，更好的标准和评估，并扩大了对地理学高质量教师培训计划的访问。实际上，RCN将努力提高地理教育作为研究领域的概况。这样做将有助于参与的大学招募更多的研究生人群，提高教师研究生产力，并促进研究使用研究来提高当地社区的地理教学质量。路线图对21世纪地理教育项目进行了深入的考虑，对NSF的21世纪地理教育项目进行了深入的考虑。路线图项目基于许多先前的努力来评估地理教育的研究状态，于2013年发布了具有里程碑意义的研究和研究议程。路线图报告考虑了许多有关哪些研究主题和问题最重要的实质性问题确保长期进步和学生成就的改善。它还引起人们对应如何设计渴望变革的地理教育研究的重要方法论问题。路线图项目的研究议程提供了一系列建议，以建立地理教育中的研究能力和能力。它强调研究计划和设计的科学方法是超越描述性，奇异和轶事研究的一种策略，该研究目前是地理教育文献的特征。制定这一愿景将需要在其他学科中的地理学家和教育研究人员之间进行相当大的协调，协作和信息共享。这个RCN项目将首次提供进行这项工作所需的基础架构。