Nuestro Futuro: Applied Science Education to Engage Black and Latino Youth

Nuestro Futuro：应用科学教育吸引黑人和拉丁裔青年

• 批准号: 8309865
• 负责人: Flavia Perea
• 金额: $ 17.48万
• 依托单位: TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8309865
• 关键词: AIDS/HIV problem; Academic achievement; Achievement; Address; Advocacy; Applied Research; Asthma; Attitude; Awareness; Boston; Build-it; Child; Climate; Communities; Community Health Education; Community Outreach; Deterioration; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Discipline; Disease; Economics; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Ensure; Environmental Engineering technology; Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Evaluation; Family; Fostering; Funding; Future; Grant; Health; Health Sciences; Human Resources; Individual; Information Dissemination; Instruction; Intervention Studies; K-12 Education; Knowledge; Latino; Learning; Left; Life; Massachusetts; Medicine; Mentors; Mentorship; Methodology; Methods; Minority; Minority Groups; Modeling; Outcome; Parents; Pathway interactions; Policies; Population; Process; Professional counselor; Public Health; Request for Proposals; Research; Research Personnel; Risk Factors; Schools; Science; Science Enrichment; Scientist; Social Policies; Social Sciences; Sociology; Students; Technology; Testing; Time; Underrepresented Minority; Ursidae Family; Youth; base; career; design; disability; disorder risk; experience; health disparity; health equity; improved; innovation; interest; knowledge base; literacy; middle school; minority health; nutrition; outreach; peer; programs; public education; science education; skills; social; social disparities; social health determinants; teacher

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project is a curriculum based educational opportunity implemented in an after- school enrichment setting in a Boston, MA public middle school. The project builds on the active NIMHD funded research intervention study, Nuestro Futuro Saludable. This academic enrichment program is focused on inquiry-based science education, public outreach and community-based information campaigns to educate students, families, and their communities on health research topics within a health equity framework. The program is designed to (1) cultivate a deeper, contextualized understanding of scientific concepts among students related to health disparities and the social determinants of health in their community; (2) teach students to foster their ability to "think" like scientists from various disciplines (eg: epidemiology, sociology, biomedicine) as they study diseases that present disparities in their community (eg: asthma, diabetes, HIV/AIDS); and (3) provide an opportunity for students to use what they have learned about health, science, and disparities to develop and carry-out local advocacy and outreach efforts. The project is designed to increase the scientific literacy of Latino and Black students, as well as student interest in the sciences and enthusiasm for studying the sciences by providing research career awareness opportunities, mentoring and information dissemination to increase the representation of underrepresented minority groups in the sciences.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目是基于课程的教育机会，该机会在马萨诸塞州波士顿公立中学的校后充实环境中实施。该项目建立在主动NIMHD资助的研究干预研究的基础上，Nuestro Futuro可赎回。该学术丰富计划的重点是基于询问的科学教育，公共宣传和基于社区的信息运动，以在健康平等框架内教育学生，家庭及其社区有关健康研究主题。该计划旨在（1）在与健康差异和社区中健康差异有关的学生和健康决定因素之间对科学概念的更深入，情境化的理解； （2）教学学生培养他们的“思考”能力，例如来自各个学科的科学家（例如流行病学，社会学，生物医学），因为他们研究了社区中差异的疾病（例如：哮喘，糖尿病，艾滋病毒/艾滋病）； （3）为学生提供了一个机会，可以利用他们对健康，科学和差距的了解，以发展和进行当地的倡导和外展工作。该项目旨在提高拉丁裔和黑人学生的科学素养，以及学生对科学和热情研究科学的兴趣，通过提供研究职业意识机会，指导和信息传播，以增加科学中代表性不足的少数群体的代表。