Building Capacity to Institutionalize Equity in Outdoor and Environmental Science Education

建设户外和环境科学教育公平制度化的能力

• 批准号: 2315277
• 负责人: Jedda Foreman
• 金额: $ 472.3万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2028-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315277&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Institutionalize; Equity; Outdoor

This project aims to advance racial equity in outdoor and environmental science education (OESE) by co-developing, implementing, and studying a replicable model for organizational capacity building and transformation. This project will increase the capacity of organizations to build more racially just and equitable work environments for Professionals of Color in OESE. It is a collaboration among a research and learning design team at a large public university (the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley), a community-based racial and environmental justice organization (Justice Outside), and a data and strategic consultancy firm (Informing Change). The project will support a team of leaders from five organizations to facilitate and guide organization-wide discussions related to racial equity. Through this work, the project will develop and formalize a Racial Equity Transformation Tool Kit to activate field-wide change. The Tool Kit will include three components: 1) Facilitator's Reflection Guide, 2) Foundations of Racial Equity Guide, and 3) Organization Systems Change Tools. The project includes collaborative and interconnected research and evaluation components to inform project activities, assess the effectiveness of the capacity-building model, and examine how race and power shape the everyday experiences of Professionals of Color and the organizational journey to advance systems change.Drawing on a racialized conditions of systems change framework, research findings will build on theoretical and practical understandings of how racialized conditions shape the enactment of organizational transformation towards a more racially just and equitable work environment, namely for Professionals of Color.). The project will explore three research questions using a qualitative, case study approach: (RQ1) What are the conditions necessary in OESE organizations to move towards a racially equitable and just work environment for Professionals of Color, and what can transformative change look like?; (RQ2) What are meaningful indicators for Professionals of Color of a racially just and equitable work environment in OESE organizations?; and (RQ3) How do Professionals of Color make meaning of their experiences in the field-at-large, and what factors shape the experiences of Professionals of Color? The evaluation will utilize a mixed-methods design to explore the key design and implementation features that can employ critical levers or address barriers to position participants to authentically engage in organizational transformation. Collectively, the research and evaluation will lead to new understandings of how to conceptualize, enact, and assess systems change in OESE organizations, which can offer critical insights to STEM education more broadly. By bridging research and evaluation, the project will provide insight with respect to Racialized Conditions of Systems Change framework, exploring the interplay between the social, institutional, cultural, and individual factors and organizational conditions to identify key indicators of systems change.This project is funded through the Racial Equity in STEM Education activity (EDU Racial Equity). The activity supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce. Awarded projects seek to center the voices, knowledge, and experiences of the individuals, communities, and institutions most impacted by systemic inequities within the STEM enterprise. This activity aligns with NSF's core value of supporting outstanding researchers and innovative thinkers from across the Nation's diversity of demographic groups, regions, and types of organizations. Programs across EDU contribute funds to the Racial Equity activity in recognition of the alignment of its projects with the collective research and development thrusts of the four divisions of the directorate.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.

该项目旨在通过共同开发，实施和研究用于组织能力建设和转型的可复制模型来提高户外和环境科学教育（OESE）的种族平等。该项目将提高组织在OESE中为有色人种专业人员建立更公正和公平的工作环境的能力。 这是一所大型公立大学（加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校的劳伦斯科学厅）的研究与学习设计团队的合作，这是一个基于社区的种族与环境司法组织（外部大法官），以及数据和战略咨询公司（告知变更）。该项目将支持来自五个组织的领导人团队，以促进和指导与种族平等有关的组织范围内的讨论。通过这项工作，该项目将开发并正式化种族权益转换工具套件，以激活范围内的变化。该工具套件将包括三个组件：1）促进者的反射指南，2）种族权益指南的基础和3）组织系统更改工具。该项目包括协作和互连的研究和评估组件，以告知项目活动，评估能力建设模型的有效性，并研究种族和力量如何塑造色彩专业人员的日常体验以及促进系统变化的组织旅程。系统化的条件改变了框架，研究结果将基于理论和实践理解，即种族化条件如何塑造组织转型朝着更加公正和公平的工作环境（即对有色专业人士）进行的实施。）。该项目将使用定性的案例研究方法探索三个研究问题：（RQ1）OESE组织在朝着种族公平和公正的有色人种的工作环境中所需的条件是什么？变革性变化是什么样的？ （RQ2）对于OESE组织中种族公正和公平的工作环境的专业人员的专业人员有什么意义？ （RQ3）色彩专业人员在一般现场的经验以及哪些因素影响着色彩专业人员的体验？评估将利用混合方法设计来探索可以采用关键杠杆或解决障碍的关键设计和实现功能，以定位参与者来真实地参与组织转型。总的来说，研究和评估将对如何概念化，制定和评估OESE组织的系统变化有了新的理解，这些组织可以为更广泛的教育提供关键的见解。通过桥接研究和评估，该项目将提供有关系统变化框架种族条件的见解，探索社会，机构，文化，个人因素和个人因素和组织条件之间的相互作用，以确定系统的关键指标。通过STEM教育活动的种族平等（EDU种族平等）。该活动支持研究和实践项目，这些项目调查了对种族资产的考虑如何改善科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和劳动力。授予的项目旨在将个人，社区和机构的声音，知识和经验集中在STEM企业中最受系统性不平等影响。这项活动符合NSF的核心价值，即支持来自全国各种人口群体，地区和组织类型的杰出研究人员和创新思想家。 EDU的计划为种族公平活动贡献了资金，以表彰其项目与该局四个部门的集体研究和发展力量的一致性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用评估来支持的。基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评论标准。