Collaborative Research: Community-Engaged Student Learning for the Development of Empathy in Engineering

合作研究：社区参与的学生学习促进工程同理心的发展

基本信息

批准号：
1821866
负责人：
David A Delaine
金额：
$ 24.13万
依托单位：
Ohio State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-07-01 至 2023-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1821866&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Community Engaged Student

项目摘要

Research studies have shown that empathy is an important skill in engineering. For example, increased empathy can contribute to communication, design processes, professional success, ethics, and the overall culture of engineering. However, development of empathy has not yet been recognized to be an important component of engineering education. Likely as a result, engineers today generally have less fully developed empathy skills, when compared to professionals in other fields. Community-engaged student learning offers opportunities for engineering students to develop empathy within community-oriented partnerships built around mutual goals. This project will explore community-engaged student learning as a platform inclusion of empathy development in engineering curricula. Thus, it can provide engineering educators with a mechanism to promote empathy as a key engineering skill.In this project, the investigators will use quasi-experimental, mixed methods research to: 1) study how community-engaged student learning may foster the development of empathy in engineers; and (2) develop research-informed instructional tools to teach empathy and enhance learning outcomes around empathy in engineering. In the first phase of the project, the goal is to collect baseline data across seven community-engaged learning activities, which include service learning, outreach, and volunteer-type activities within the community. Student reflections, focus groups, and interviews will provide qualitative insight, and quantitative measurements will triangulate findings. The goal of the second phase of the project is to develop instructional tools for empathy. In the third phase, these instructional tools will be implemented in community-engaged student learning activities and data collection will be repeated to determine the impact of the tools on empathy development in engineering students.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

研究表明，移情是工程学的重要技能。例如，增加的同理心会促进沟通，设计过程，专业成功，道德和工程的整体文化。但是，尚未认为同理心的发展是工程教育的重要组成部分。结果，与其他领域的专业人员相比，今天的工程师通常具有不足的同理心技能。社区参与的学生学习为工程学生提供了机会，以建立围绕共同目标建立的社区伙伴关系中建立同理心。该项目将探索社区参与的学生学习，以此作为包括工程课程中移情发展的平台。因此，它可以为工程教育者提供一种促进同理心作为关键工程技能的机制。在该项目中，研究人员将使用准实验，混合方法研究来：1）研究社区参与的学生学习如何促进工程师的同理心发展；（2）开发研究知识的教学工具来教授同理心，并增强围绕工程中的同理心的学习成果。在项目的第一阶段，目标是在社区参与的七个学习活动中收集基线数据，其中包括社区内的服务学习，外展和志愿者型活动。学生的思考，焦点小组和访谈将提供定性的见解，定量测量结果将进行三角调查结果。该项目的第二阶段的目标是开发同理心的教学工具。在第三阶段，这些教学工具将在社区参与的学生学习活动中实施，并且将重复进行数据收集，以确定工具对工程专业学生的移情发展的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来支持的。