Indigenous Hawaiian Knowledge/Ike Hawaii Pop-up Science Center: Exploring the Effectiveness of Community-driven, Culturally Sustaining STEM Exhibit Development

夏威夷土著知识/艾克夏威夷快闪科学中心：探索社区驱动、文化可持续的 STEM 展览开发的有效性

• 批准号: 2002729
• 负责人: Maile Keliipio-Acoba
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: INSTITUTE FOR NATIVE PACIFIC EDUCATION AND CULTURE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2023-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2002729&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Indigenous; Hawaiian; Knowledge; Ike; Hawaii

For thousands of years, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NHPI) seafarers have successfully utilized systemic observation of their environment to traverse vast expanses of open ocean and thrive on the most remote islands on earth. Developing NHPI trust in the scientific enterprise requires building connections that bridge the values and concepts of ‘ike kupuna (traditional knowledge) with scientific knowledge systems and contemporary technology. This project will develop and research a pop-up science exhibit that connects indigenous Hawaiian knowledge with contemporary Western science concepts. The exhibit will show how community knowledge (that is consistent with underlying scientific principles and natural laws) has informed innovation by indigenous peoples. This community-initiated and developed project will begin with a single pop-up exhibit designed to incorporate several hands-on culture-based STEM activities that integrate traditional and modern technologies. For example, the exhibit may cover indigenous systems of star navigation for ocean voyaging, systems of netting for food and water containers, or systems of home design with local and natural materials. This project seeks to develop preliminary evidence of the effectiveness of such an approach for supporting rural Hawaiian youths’ STEM engagement, understanding, and personal connections to Native Hawaiian STEM knowledge. Findings from this pilot and feasibility study will inform the development of a larger pop-up science center grounded in indigenous Hawaiian STEM knowledge, and advance intellectual knowledge around culturally sustaining pedagogy by helping informal STEM education practitioners understand community initiated and developed STEM exhibits. This pop-up science center pilot will be led by a local Hawaiian community organization, INPEACE, in collaboration with several local community members and other community-based organizations. The preliminary research will iteratively explore whether and how an existing Hawaiian culture-based framework can be used to design hands-on STEM exhibits to enhance rural learner engagement, depth of STEM knowledge, and connection to Native Hawaiian STEM knowledge. Research efforts led by Kamehameha Schools, which has a long history of conducting research from an indigenous worldview, will engage 120 learners from various rural communities across Hawaii, from which 40 will be pre-selected middle-school youth, and 80 individuals will be from public audiences of learners ages 12 and up. Through a series of observations, interviews, pre and post surveys with validated instruments, and focus groups, the research will probe: (1) The learners’ thoughts on the science practice and its relevance to old and new Hawaii and modern society. (2) The level at which related STEM topics have been understood, and (3) The learners’ perceptions about their connection to Native Hawaiian STEM knowledge. Results from this pilot study will inform a future pop-up science center development project, and add to the scarce literature on community-driven, culturally sustaining exhibition development. This project is funded by the NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning 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 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.

数千年来，夏威夷原住民/太平洋岛民（NHPI）海员成功地利用了对环境的系统性观察，以穿越大海的大量扩展，并在地球上最偏远的岛屿上繁衍生息。建立对科学企业的NHPI信任需要建立联系，以弥合“ Ike Kupuna（传统知识）的价值观和概念，并使用科学知识系统和当代技术。该项目将开发和研究弹出科学展览，该展览将夏威夷土著知识与当代西方科学概念联系起来。展览将展示社区知识（与基本的科学原则和自然法则一致）如何为土著人民的创新提供了信息。这个社区发动和发达的项目将从单个弹出展览开始，旨在结合几种基于文化的基于文化的STEM活动，以整合传统和现代技术。例如，该展览可能涵盖海洋航行的恒星导航，食品和水容器的网络系统或带有本地和天然材料的家庭设计系统。该项目旨在建立初步证据，证明这种方法是支持夏威夷农村青年参与，理解和与夏威夷当地人知识的个人联系的有效性。这项飞行员和可行性研究的发现将为建立在夏威夷土著STEM知识的基础上的更大的弹出科学中心的发展提供信息，并通过帮助非正式的STEM教育从业者了解社区的启动和开发的STEM展览，从而提高围绕文化维持教学法的智力知识。这个弹出式科学中心飞行员将由当地的夏威夷社区组织Intece与几个当地社区成员和其他基于社区的组织合作。初步研究将迭代地探索是否以及如何使用基于夏威夷文化的框架来设计动手的STEM展览，以增强艰难的学习者参与度，STEM知识的深度以及与本地夏威夷STEM知识的联系。由Kamehameha学校领导的研究工作悠久，该学校从土著世界观进行研究历史悠久，将与夏威夷各个艰难社区的120名学习者与120名学习者互动，从中有40名将是预选的中学青年，而80个人将来自12岁及以上的学习者的公众受众。通过一系列的观察，访谈，预先调查和验证工具的调查以及焦点小组，研究将探讨：（1）学习者对科学实践及其与新旧夏威夷和现代社会的相关性的想法。 （2）已经理解了相关的STEM主题的水平，以及（3）学习者对他们与夏威夷本地STEM知识的联系的看法。这项试点研究的结果将为未来的弹出科学中心发展项目提供信息，并增加了有关社区驱动的，文化维持的展览发展的稀缺文献。该项目由NSF推进的非正式STEM学习计划资助，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，推进对非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估，并发展参与者对更深入的学习的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过使用该基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来评估Criteria Criteria的评估。