Youth Engaging in the Science of Resilience: Sensing the Environment and Envisioning Solutions

青年参与复原力科学：感知环境并设想解决方案

• 批准号: 2215420
• 负责人: Kathleen Gray
• 金额: $ 235.89万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2215420&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Youth; Engaging; Science; Resilience; Sensing

This Innovations in Development project supports racially and ethnically diverse youth in learning about climate resilience in informal settings, including community centers, afterschool programs, and museums. The project aims to: (1) build the capacity of community organizations to implement youth programming on climate resilience; (2) increase youth knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy associated with climate resilience (also referred to as environmental health literacy for climate resilience); and (3) explore how collaborating research universities and community organizations engage diverse youth in informal STEM learning. Project partners include the UNC Institute for the Environment, the University of Washington-Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics and Environment, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Juntos NC, and the Duwamish River Community Coalition (DRCC). Juntos NC and DRCC actively engage Latino and Indigenous youth in their programming and seek to implement resilience-focused programming that supports youth science learning and leadership development. Together, informal educators and participating youth will develop locally relevant solutions to climate impacts in their communities. Youth will interact with university-based climate scientists and educators to collect and analyze data and will participate in resilience-focused dialogue, planning, and actions in their communities. Youth will share what they learn with their families and peers through family events and teen summits. The project will engage dozens of educators in community organizations and at least 250 youth, who will share what they learn with their families and communities, reaching hundreds more people through communications and local action projects. Mixed-methods assessment will provide insight into the extent participating youth (a) develop environmental health literacy for climate resilience, and (b) take action to address resilience in their home communities. The team will assess how these outcomes vary by location, and the implications of any variation on potential for project replication. A participatory evaluation, led by an external evaluator, will provide insight into empowerment outcomes. Findings will be disseminated to professional audiences at local and national conferences; and curricular materials from this project will be disseminated through the project website. This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to an evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. These approaches include 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.

开发项目的创新支持种族和种族多元化的年轻人，以了解非正式环境中的气候韧性，包括社区中心，校后计划和博物馆。该项目的目的是：（1）建立社区组织在气候弹性方面实施青年计划的能力； （2）提高与气候弹性相关的青年知识，技能和自我效能感（也称为环境健康素养，具有气候弹性）； （3）探讨如何协作研究型大学和社区组织如何使多样化的青年参与非正式的STEM学习。项目合作伙伴包括UNC环境研究所，华盛顿大学疫苗，疾病，基因组学和环境中心，北卡罗来纳州自然科学博物馆，Juntos NC和Duwamish River社区联盟（DRCC）。 Juntos NC和DRCC积极与拉丁裔和土著年轻人一起参与编程，并寻求实施以弹性为中心的节目，以支持青年科学学习和领导力发展。非正式的教育者和参与青年将共同开发本地相关的解决方案，以使其社区对气候影响。青年将与基于大学的气候科学家和教育工作者进行互动，以收集和分析数据，并将参与以弹性为中心的对话，计划和社区的行动。青年将通过家庭活动和青少年峰会与家人和同龄人分享他们学到的知识。该项目将在社区组织和至少250名青年中吸引数十名教育工作者，他们将与家人和社区分享他们学到的知识，并通过沟通和地方行动项目吸引数百人。混合方法评估将为参与年轻人（a）发展环境健康素养以促进气候韧性，并（b）采取行动解决其家庭社区的韧性。团队将评估这些结果如何因位置而变化，以及任何对项目复制潜力的影响的影响。由外部评估者领导的参与性评估将提供对授权结果的见解。调查结果将被传播给当地和民族会议的专业观众；该项目的课程材料将通过项目网站传播。该项目由非正式的STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推动基于证据的理解和发展非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和发展的新方法。这些方法包括提供多种途径，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学习的创新研究和评估，并发展参与者对更深入学习的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估基金会的知识功能和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。