| 项目编号: | 1645444
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| 项目名称: | Collaborative Research: GEODES: Geoscience Diversity Experiential Simulations |
| 作者: | Jason Chen
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| 承担单位: | College of William and Mary
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| 批准年: | 2017
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| 开始日期: | 2017-03-15
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| 结束日期: | 2019-02-28
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| 资助金额: | 196007
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Geosciences - Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research
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| 英文关键词: | diversity
; such active-participation simulation
; geoscience-specific scenario
; part ithe geoscience diversity experiential simulation
; diversity training
; geoscience leadership
; geoscience department
; virtual reality role-play simulation
; virtual simulation
; equity
; virtual reality simulation
; inclusion
; project test new research-based method
; bias
; institutionspart iithe geoscience diversity experiential simulation
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| 英文摘要: | Part I
The Geoscience Diversity Experiential Simulations (GEODES) project tests new research-based methods for providing professional development (PD) in equity and inclusion for geoscientists. The project will create virtual reality role-play simulations designed to teach cohorts of geoscientists to develop and practice skills for recognizing bias and effectively intervening in geoscience-specific scenarios. This new ability to act will also be harnessed in the project?s leadership curriculum by focusing on institutional work to minimize the effects of bias on gatekeeping decisions. Testing the success of these scenarios in changing real-life behavior will contribute to the literature around diversity training for scientists. Evaluation of our comprehensive PD program will inform promising practices for geoscience departments to change attitudes and practice to create a more welcoming climate for all.
Our project provides PD to university faculty to train them as champions for diversity who will also become role models for other professionals. Participants will begin to systematically open up the profession by employing a social-closure lens to minimize bias in key professional gate-keeping roles (e.g., search committees and graduate admissions). Furthermore, our virtual simulation provides a tool that various levels of geoscience leadership might be interested in demonstrating, advertising, and implementing. The proposed new immersive-learning tool will be generalizable to other STEM fields. A combination of machine learning and technology development may allow such active-participation simulations for all faculty, students, and administrators in the near future. The leadership curriculum will systematize the broad literature on institutional change for inclusion, thus creating a coherent, understandable, and general strategy that can be applied to many more institutions
Part II
The Geoscience Diversity Experiential Simulations(GEODES)project draws from social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1986) and social closure theory (Murphy, 1988) to provide professional development (PD) for a cohort of geoscientists to 1) increase their knowledge of bias and social justice issues relevant to the geosciences; 2) engage in bystander intervention training using virtual reality simulations; 3) develop leadership skills to target critical gatekeeping decisions to transform their home institutions; and 4) support their continued development into champions for diversity, equity, and inclusion. These goals are achieved through several phases, beginning with a three-day intensive workshop that teaches and challenges participants to think critically about social justice and develops leadership skills. The workshop will culminate in bystander intervention training using virtual reality role-play scenarios. Participants will continue to meet for a monthly journal club over video conferencing, where issues of equity, inclusion, and leadership are discussed as a group. Measured outcomes include pre-post changes in attitudes and knowledge regarding diversity, equity, and leadership techniques. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/90424
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| Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划
科学计划与规划
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Jason Chen. Collaborative Research: GEODES: Geoscience Diversity Experiential Simulations. 2017-01-01.
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