Conference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imagination in Informal STEM Environments

会议：非正式 STEM 环境中想象力的跨学科视角

• 批准号: 1906899
• 负责人: Rebecca Kipling
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Museum of Science
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1906899&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Interdisciplinary; Perspectives; Imagination; Informal

As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program 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 project will consider how research on imaginative thinking, and perspectives on the role of imagination in STEM practice and STEM education, can be systematically applied to support STEM learning in museum contexts. Common conceptions of science as non-imaginative are persistent, but scholarship across disciplines suggests critical roles for imagination, both in the practice of STEM and in shaping learners' perceptions of themselves as part of STEM. Further, evidence from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, child development and education suggests ways that imagination can be fostered and improved, and that these understandings could be applied to the design of museum experiences in order to improve STEM outcomes. The activities of this project, led by the Museum of Science, Boston, both synthesize and generate knowledge at the intersections of imagination, STEM, and education practice in ways that are actionable for museum professionals. Activities include: a literature review, a document review, and a survey of ISE professionals; an in-person convening of STEM professionals (researchers, practitioners, educators and others); and the development and dissemination of products designed to inform future project development. The goals of the project are to: 1) prompt conversations about imaginative thinking across the Informal Science Education (ISE) field, and between ISE and other fields; 2) identify priority areas for research and development that can advance the field's understandings at the intersections of imagination, STEM, and learning; and 3) catalyze future research and development efforts that can advance the field. The intent is for the integration scholarship on imagination, STEM, and learning within museums' research and development efforts to lead to projects that describe, test, and refine theoretical frameworks and concrete strategies for supporting imaginative thinking among public audiences through exhibitions, programs, and other designed experiences.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.

作为增强非正式环境中学习的整体战略的一部分，前进的非正式STEM学习（AISL）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。该项目将如何系统地使用对富有想象力的思维的研究，以及对想象力在STEM实践和STEM教育中的作用的看法，可以系统地应用于博物馆环境中的STEM学习。 科学作为非想象力的常见概念是持久的，但是跨学科的学者在STEM的实践和塑造学习者对自己作为STEM的一部分的看法中都表明了想象力的关键作用。此外，来自神经科学，心理学，儿童发展和教育领域的证据提出了可以促进和改善想象力的方法，并且这些理解可以应用于博物馆体验的设计，以改善STEM结果。由波士顿科学博物馆领导的该项目的活动在想象力，STEM和教育实践的交集中以适合博物馆专业人士行动的方式综合并产生知识。 活动包括：文献综述，文档审查和ISE专业人员的调查； STEM专业人士（研究人员，从业人员，教育工作者和其他人）的面对面召集；以及旨在为未来项目开发提供信息的产品的开发和传播。该项目的目标是：1）迅速在非正式科学教育（ISE）领域以及ISE和其他领域之间进行有关富有想象力的对话； 2）确定可以在想象力，茎和学习的交集中推进该领域理解的研究和发展的优先领域； 3）催化未来的研发工作，可以推进整个领域。目的是为了在博物馆内的想象，茎和学习融合奖学金的研究和发展努力，以导致描述，测试和完善理论框架和具体策略的项目，以支持公众观众之间通过展览，计划以及其他设计的经验来支持公众观众之间的想象力思维。这些奖项通过评估NSF的范围来进行评估，这是由NSF的范围进行的，这是众多的范围。 标准。