Collaborative Research: RUI: Collaborative Research and Education Architecture for Transformative Engagement with STS (CREATE/STS)

协作研究：RUI：与 STS 进行变革性接触的协作研究和教育架构（CREATE/STS）

• 批准号: 2121224
• 负责人: Elizabeth Reddy
• 金额: $ 7.42万
• 依托单位: Colorado School of Mines
• 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: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2121224&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; RUI; Education; Architecture

The aim of this project is to test innovative methods for integrating STEM and humanities curricula in a 4-year college setting. With pervasive and increasingly complex ethical and social issues related to emerging science and technology, undergraduate students in both STEM and humanities fields need better interdisciplinary preparation to address these societal challenges in their professional careers. While general education requirements may ensure breadth, there remains little integration of STEM and humanities perspectives. The field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) is uniquely positioned to facilitate such integration through STS pedagogies—interdisciplinary practices of teaching and learning that build on the field’s deep engagement with the ethical and societal dimensions of science, technology, and innovation. This project implements and evaluates a model for collaboratively developing STS pedagogies with a cohort of STEM and humanities faculty and undergraduate students, designed to build new interdisciplinary STS modules for each participating faculty member’s course. This research has the potential of refining a model that can be adopted by a variety of institutions to facilitate the dissemination and uptake of STS pedagogies across the curriculum.This project addresses three research questions: 1) Can this model effectively support the integration of humanities and STEM perspectives in undergraduate training? 2) Can collaborative STS pedagogy development effectively cultivate new interdisciplinary collaborations between humanities and STEM experts? 3) Does this model contribute to the recognition and value of STS in interdisciplinary undergraduate training within four-year degree programs? Through four year-long implementations of the model across four different institutions—James Madison University, Colorado School of Mines, Michigan State University, and University of Maryland College Park—this research will evaluate and refine the model, attending to institutional, disciplinary, and other factors that impact its implementation and effectiveness. Using ethnographic and qualitative methods for analyzing each implementation, this project will produce a rich description of the model and associated STS pedagogies, and an open access best-practices handbook for adapting this model in different institutional settings and collaboratively developing STS pedagogies with humanities and STEM colleagues. Additionally, as undergraduate students will be involved in the project and will support data collection and analysis, it will provide opportunities to mentor a new generation in research and evidence-based STS pedagogy.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.

在4年的大学环境中测试将STEM和人文课程整合的创新方法的目的。技术研究（STS）的独特位置是通过STS教学法来促进这种整合 - 在该领域与该项目的伦理居住者，技术和创新的深度互动的基础上，撕裂了。凭借贫民窟的教职员工和地下学生，旨在为每个参与教师的课程建立新的跨学科STS。人文和STEM的观点培训？科罗拉多州矿业学院，密歇根州立大学和玛丽大学大学 - 这项研究将评估和完善影响企业的模型，纪律和其他因素，该项目将产生丰富的分析方法。 DSTS。该奖项反映了NSF'Stutory Mission，这是一项研究和基于证据的STS教育学的新一代，并通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准获得了值得支持H评估的值得支持。