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、实施和研究组织能力建设和转型的可复制模型，促进户外和环境科学教育 (OESE) 中的种族平等。该项目将提高组织的能力，为 OESE 中的有色人种专业人士建立更加种族公正和公平的工作环境。 它是一所大型公立大学（加州大学伯克利分校劳伦斯科学馆）的研究和学习设计团队、一个基于社区的种族和环境正义组织（Justice Outside）以及一个数据和战略组织之间的合作。咨询公司（通知变革）。该项目将支持来自五个组织的领导团队，以促进和指导组织范围内有关种族平等的讨论。通过这项工作，该项目将开发并正式制定种族平等转型工具包，以激活全领域的变革。该工具包将包括三个组成部分：1) 协调员反思指南，2) 种族平等基础指南，以及 3) 组织系统变革工具。该项目包括协作和相互关联的研究和评估部分，为项目活动提供信息，评估能力建设模型的有效性，并研究种族和权力如何影响有色人种专业人士的日常体验以及推进系统变革的组织旅程。在系统变革框架的种族化条件下，研究结果将建立在对种族化条件如何塑造组织转型的理论和实践理解的基础上，以实现更加种族公正和公平的工作环境，即针对有色人种的专业人士。）该项目将采用定性案例研究方法探讨三个研究问题：（RQ1）OESE 组织为有色人种专业人士打造种族公平和公正的工作环境所需的条件是什么？变革性变革会是什么样子？ (RQ2) 对于 OESE 组织中的种族公正和公平工作环境而言，对于有色人种专业人士来说，有意义的指标是什么？ （RQ3）有色人种专业人士如何理解他们在整个领域的经验的意义，以及哪些因素塑造了有色人种专业人士的经验？评估将利用混合方法设计来探索关键设计和实施功能，这些功能可以利用关键杠杆或解决障碍，使参与者真正参与组织转型。总的来说，研究和评估将带来对如何在 OESE 组织中概念化、实施和评估系统变革的新理解，这可以为更广泛的 STEM 教育提供重要见解。通过桥接研究和评估，该项目将提供有关系统变革框架的种族化条件的见解，探索社会、制度、文化和个人因素与组织条件之间的相互作用，以确定系统变革的关键指标。该项目获得资助通过 STEM 教育活动中的种族平等（EDU 种族平等）。该活动支持研究和实践项目，调查种族平等因素如何影响科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 教育和劳动力的改善。获奖项目力求集中受 STEM 企业内系统性不平等影响最大的个人、社区和机构的声音、知识和经验。这项活动符合 NSF 的核心价值观，即支持来自全国不同人口群体、地区和组织类型的杰出研究人员和创新思想家。 EDU 的各个项目为种族平等活动提供资金，以表彰其项目与该理事会四个部门的集体研究和开发目标的一致性。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。