Working Across Boundaries through promoting collaboration and interdisciplinarity in future STEM education scholars

通过促进未来 STEM 教育学者的合作和跨学科跨界工作

• 批准号: 2329528
• 负责人: Geoffrey Potvin
• 金额: $ 125万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2329528&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Working; Across; Boundaries; through; promoting

This project will serve the national interest by preparing a cohort of three postdoctoral fellows to engage in innovative research in STEM education that emphasizes collaboration and interdisciplinarity. There is an urgent need to grow interdisciplinary work in STEM education, as this field increasingly requires interdisciplinary approaches to address complex STEM education questions that cut across and impact multiple disciplines. While significant growth has occurred within individual disciplines in STEM education and Discipline Based Education Research, there has been minimal interdisciplinary work carried out. This project will support a cohort of postdoctoral scholars through research, professional development, and mentoring activities to become well-rounded scholars that engage in intentional interdisciplinary education research. The work of these scholars will improve the quality of STEM education in different disciplines and education levels, benefiting STEM students across disciplines and potentially strengthening the connections between disciplines. The project activities draw from multiple professional development frameworks and include opportunities that enhance postdoctoral fellows’ research knowledge and skills, academic and professional development, and professional socialization. The program will support these emerging STEM education scholars to become independent researchers and bring unique expertise and reconceptualizations of interdisciplinary considerations to STEM education. The scholars will be supported through individualized professional development plans that will include novel, independent research, a collaborative inquiry, and optional experiences such as teaching and/or auditing courses. Scholars will also receive multidisciplinary mentoring from an intentionally chosen collection of mentors, each of whom takes on distinct roles in supporting each scholar. The postdoctoral scholars will advance knowledge in their future field and in existing nationally prominent research projects. Also, they will advance our understanding of postdoctoral research support systems, particularly across disciplinary boundaries, through a collaborative inquiry project. They will also access a series of professional development programs to improve their research knowledge, develop their academic and professional skills, and build their professional network. Cohort activities will include opportunities to develop key professional skills through experiential learning and facilitated discussions and develop a strong professional network of mentors and colleagues. This project is funded by the STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (STEM Ed PRF) program that aims to enhance the research knowledge, skills, and practices of recent doctorates in STEM, STEM education, education, and related disciplines to advance their preparation to engage in fundamental and applied research that advances knowledge within the field. The project is also supported by the Directorate for STEM Education Core Research Program (ECR) and the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program (IUSE).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.

该项目将通过培养一批三名博士后研究员来从事强调协作和跨学科的 STEM 教育创新研究来服务国家利益。由于该领域越来越需要跨学科方法，因此迫切需要发展 STEM 教育的跨学科工作。解决跨越并影响多个学科的复杂 STEM 教育问题，虽然 STEM 教育和基于学科的教育研究在各个学科中取得了显着的增长，但该项目将支持一批博士后学者。通过研究、专业发展和指导活动，成为从事有意识的跨学科教育研究的全面学者。这些学者的工作将提高不同学科和教育水平的 STEM 教育质量，使跨学科的 STEM 学生受益，并有可能加强。该项目活动借鉴了多个专业发展框架，包括提高博士后研究知识和技能、学术和专业发展以及专业社会化的机会。该计划将支持这些新兴的 STEM 教育学者成为独立的研究人员和研究人员。带来独特的专业知识和学者们将通过个性化的专业发展计划获得支持，其中包括新颖的独立研究、协作探究以及教学和/或旁听课程等可选经验。精心挑选的导师团队，每个人都在支持每位学者方面发挥着不同的作用，博士后学者将在其未来领域和现有的全国著名研究项目中增进知识，此外，他们还将增进我们对博士后研究支持系统的理解。穿过通过协作探究项目，他们还将获得一系列专业发展计划，以提高他们的研究知识，发展他们的学术和专业技能，并建立他们的专业网络，其中包括通过体验来发展关键专业技能的机会。该项目由 STEM 教育博士后研究奖学金 (STEM Ed PRF) 计划资助，旨在增强近期 STEM 博士学位的研究知识、技能和实践。 STEM教育，该项目还得到了 STEM 教育核心研究计划 (ECR) 和改善本科生 STEM 教育计划 (IUSE) 的支持。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。