Collaborative Research: EAGER: Voices Of Integrating Culture in the Earth Sciences (VOICES)

合作研究：EAGER：将文化融入地球科学的声音（VOICES）

• 批准号: 2036241
• 负责人: Lisa White
• 金额: $ 13.31万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2036241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; EAGER; Voices; Integrating

The Voices of Integrating Culture in the Earth Sciences (VOICES) is a collaborative pilot study focused on identifying new pathways to dismantle persistent barriers in the recruitment, retention, and representation of different racial, ethnic and cultural groups, including the intersectionality of those with disabilities.VOICES contributes to a greater awareness of cultural knowledge and best practices in diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Earth sciences, with implications of reaching a broader segment of the STEM community. This project will target key areas of engagement related to personal identity, feeling of belonging, history of place, and sense of security from underrepresented minorities. VOICES uses creative strategies within a social behavioral framework, to address those elements that have the potential to shift from the traditions and legacies of a historically exclusive discipline into a more diverse Earth science community. Including voices from distinct cultural values and perspectives that are commonly undervalued, can result in changing exclusionary teaching, learning, and research practices. By highlighting individual voices as part of a collective whole, a more powerful, awakened, and inclusive community has the potential to transform strategies to engage leaders and learners in Earth science disciplines.The Voices of Integrating Culture in the Earth Sciences project will invoke the power of disaggregated stories and individual cultural identities that persevere despite the traditional expectations, values, and methods of teaching and learning Earth science. VOICES has four primary elements: Identity, Belonging, Place, and Security. Each element reflects different contexts within Earth science education (e.g., field and classroom learning environments, and career development) for groups of diverse students, faculty and professionals. Using a mixture of social behavioral approaches including surveys focus groups and 3 thematic workshops, VOICES will focus on the interrelationship of Identity, Belonging, Place and Security through the lens of those who are commonly underrepresented in the Earth sciences. Thematic workshops (Nagaajiwanaang, Barataria and Potomac) use cultural histories and places to anchor workshop activities and outcomes around diversity and inclusion approaches to integrating culture in field experiences. VOICES represents a novel and highly interdisciplinary approach will lead to: 1) a more culturally robust science community through broadening the awareness of cultural and intersectional knowledge across multiple underrepresented groups, 2) the establishment of a national diversity champions network VOICES Net as a sustainable communication platform, and 3) the design and deployment of best culturally inclusive practices for welcoming all students and scientists from groups underrepresented in the Earth sciences.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.

地球科学中的文化整合之声 (VOICES) 是一项协作试点研究，重点是确定新途径，以消除不同种族、民族和文化群体（包括残疾人的交叉性）在招募、保留和代表性方面持续存在的障碍.VOICES 有助于提高人们对地球科学多样性、公平性和包容性方面的文化知识和最佳实践的认识，并影响到更广泛的 STEM 社区。该项目将针对与个人身份、归属感、地方历史和代表性不足的少数群体的安全感相关的关键参与领域。 VOICES 在社会行为框架内使用创造性策略，来解决那些有可能从历史上专有学科的传统和遗产转变为更加多样化的地球科学界的元素。纳入来自通常被低估的不同文化价值观和观点的声音，可能会导致排他性教学、学习和研究实践的改变。通过强调个人​​声音作为集体整体的一部分，一个更强大、觉醒和包容的社区有潜力改变战略，吸引地球科学学科的领导者和学习者。地球科学项目中的文化整合之声将激发力量尽管有传统的期望、价值观和地球科学教学方法，但分类的故事和个人文化身份仍然存在。 VOICES 有四个主要要素：身份、归属、地点和安全。每个元素都反映了不同学生、教师和专业人员群体的地球科学教育中的不同背景（例如，现场和课堂学习环境以及职业发展）。 VOICES 将采用包括调查焦点小组和 3 个主题研讨会在内的多种社会行为方法，通过地球科学领域通常代表性不足的人们的视角，重点关注身份、归属、地点和安全的相互关系。主题研讨会（Nagaajiwanaang、巴拉塔里亚和波托马克）利用文化历史和地点来围绕多样性和包容性方法来锚定研讨会活动和成果，将文化融入实地经验。 VOICES 代表了一种新颖且高度跨学科的方法，将导致：1）通过扩大多个代表性不足群体的文化和交叉知识意识，建立一个更具文化活力的科学界，2）建立国家多样性冠军网络 VOICES Net 作为可持续的沟通方式平台，以及 3) 设计和部署最佳的文化包容性实践，以欢迎来自地球科学领域代表性不足的群体的所有学生和科学家。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得通过以下方式获得支持：使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估。