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: 2121214
• 负责人: Marisa Brandt
• 金额: $ 4.58万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 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=2121214&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.

该项目的目的是测试在四年制大学环境中整合 STEM 和人文课程的创新方法，随着与新兴伦理科学和技术相关的普遍且日益复杂的社会问题，STEM 和人文领域的本科生都需要更好的解决方案。虽然普通教育要求可以确保其广度，但科学技术研究（STS）领域在通过 STS 促进这种融合方面仍然很少。教学法——建立在该领域对科学、技术和创新的道德和社会层面的深入参与的跨学科教学实践。该项目实施并评估了与一批 STEM 和人文学科教师合作开发 STS 教学法的模型。本科生，旨在为每个参与教师的课程构建新的跨学科 STS 模块。这项研究有可能完善一个可供各种机构采用的模型，以促进传播和吸收。整个课程的 STS 教学法。该项目解决了三个研究问题：1）该模型能否有效支持本科生培训中人文学科和 STEM 观点的融合？2）协作 STS 教学法开发能否有效培养人文学科和 STEM 专家之间的新的跨学科合作？ ）通过在四个不同机构（詹姆斯·麦迪逊大学、科罗拉多矿业学院、密歇根州立大学和马里兰大学帕克分校——这项研究将评估和完善该模型，关注影响其实施和有效性的机构、学科和其他因素，使用人种学和定性方法来分析每个实施，该项目将产生。该模型和相关 STS 教学法的丰富描述，以及开放获取的最佳实践手册，用于在不同的机构环境中调整该模型并与人文学科和 STEM 同事合作开发 STS 教学法。此外，本科生将参与该项目和将支持数据收集和分析，并将提供机会指导新一代研究和基于证据的 STS 教学法。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过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，被认为值得支持。