Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities

新公民参与和责任的科学教育

• 批准号: 1613217
• 负责人: William David Burns
• 金额: $ 118.64万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-11-16 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1613217&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Science; Education; New; Civic; Engagements

In this project the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE) is continuing to catalyze and sustain pedagogical and curricular transformation on a large scale through its Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) Program. It is building on prior results and accomplishments in empowering educators to help students in American colleges employ focused and connected learning in the science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM) disciplines to engage with important issues facing our democracy. A key goal of this project is to expand SENCER's community of practice to achieve a transformative "tipping point" in undergraduate STEM instruction and learning. SENCER models apply an "outside - in" approach from the science of learning to the learning of science, framing STEM learning within compelling civic challenges. The intellectual merit of this effort consists in empowering educators to help students in American colleges employ focused learning in the STEM disciplines to engage with great issues facing our democracy. The broader impacts of this project include strengthening our democracy by enhancing the scientific and technological literacy of the American people supporting civic engagement, and sustaining a program that helps achieve these important goals. Five goals define the reach of this 4-year project: 1. Expand participation in the SENCER Program to reach transformative scale by involving faculty teams from more than 20% of US colleges and universities in national and regional programs in new course and program design, active learning pedagogies, and civic engagement.2. Increase the intensity and scope of follow-up activities to institutionalize reforms by organizing intensive implementation webinars, linked-in discussion groups, and deploying leadership fellow "co-mentors" to strengthen implementation outcomes.3. Disseminate scholarship, materials, and other resources to strengthen connections with the wider education community by mounting a "models to materials" initiative to populate the SENCER digital library collection with easy-to-adapt and use collections of course materials, labs, assessments, civic engagement projects, and related resources.4. Broaden assessment to measure and promote enduring understandings by collaborating with the College Board to enable targeted assessment (connected to the disciplines in which SENCER courses are taught) that measures learning of unifying scientific concepts, science practices, and issues involving science, technology and society. 5. Engage in formal planning to assure sustainability, leadership succession, and growth by designing and implementing a multi-phased sustainability plan. The plan includes strategies and mechanisms for program development, finance, governance, leadership succession, and acquisition of intramural and extramural support to grow a robust community of reformers well after NSF funding has ceased.

在该项目中，国家科学与公民参与中心（NCSCE）通过其科学教育（SENCER）计划（SENCER）计划继续大规模地催化和维持教学和课程转型。 它基于先前的结果和成就，以授权教育者帮助美国大学的学生在科学，数学，工程和技术（STEM）学科中采用专注和联系的学习，以与我们民主面临的重要问题相关。 该项目的一个关键目标是扩大Sencer的实践社区，以在本科STEM教学和学习中获得变革性的“转折点”。 Sencer模型采用了从学习科学到科学学习，在引人注目的公民挑战中构建STEM学习的“外部”方法。这项努力的智力优点在于授权教育者帮助美国大学的学生在STEM学科中采用专注的学习，以与我们民主面临的巨大问题互动。该项目的更广泛的影响包括通过增强支持公民参与的美国人民的科学和技术素养来加强我们的民主，并维持有助于实现这些重要目标的计划。 五个目标定义了这项为期四年项目的影响力：1。扩大参与SENCER计划的参与，通过参与来自美国20％以上的美国大学和大学课程的教师团队在新课程和计划设计，积极学习教学教学法和公民参与中。2。通过组织密集的实施网络研讨会，链接的讨论小组以及部署领导层的“联合会人员”来加强实施成果，提高了后续活动的强度和范围，以使改革制度化。3。传播奖学金，材料和其他资源，通过安装“材料模型”计划来加强与更广泛的教育社区的联系，以填充Sencer数字图书馆藏品，并易于适应和使用课程材料，实验室，评估，公民参与项目和相关资源的汇集。4。通过与大学董事会的合作来衡量和促进持久的理解，以扩大评估，以实现有针对性的评估（与Sencer课程教授的学科有关），以衡量学习统一科学概念，科学实践以及涉及科学，技术和社会的问题的学习。 5.通过设计和实施多型可持续性计划，进行正式计划，以确保可持续性，领导力继承和增长。该计划包括计划开发，金融，治理，领导力继承和获得壁内和壁外支持的策略和机制，在NSF资助停止后，可以很好地发展一个强大的改革者社区。