EMPOWER计划:通过综合研究和教育增加多样性的历史和指南
Adrienne Lester King1, Cristi Bell-Huff2, Collins Airhihenbuwa1
1School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Advances in physiology education
|February 22, 2024
概括
该计划培训少数民族高中学生和教师进行环境健康研究,以解决环境不公正问题. 它使参与者具备识别和减轻社区环境健康风险的技能.
科学领域:
- 环境健康科学 环境健康科学
- 环境正义 环境正义
- 科学教育科学教育教育.
背景情况:
- 新出现的令人担忧的化学品加剧了脆弱社区的环境不公正.
- 系统性种族主义限制了获得教育资源的机会,阻碍了环境健康研究的多样性.
- 多样化的研究人员对于解决环境不公正及其后果至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 引导与服务不足的学校发展计划和关系,以增强环境健康研究的多样性.
- 赋予来自服务不足社区的学生和教师知识和技能,以应对环境健康和安全威胁.
- 培养致力于科学调查,实地研究和协作解决问题的伦理研究人员.
主要方法:
- 提供了历史视角,以指导程序开发.
- 一个为期8周的高中研究计划,涉及学生,教师和教师导师.
- 协同应用四步风险评估过程,以确定城市社区中有毒物质,危险,风险和差异.
主要成果:
- 吸引环境研究女性的多学科专业机会 (EMPOWER) 计划为格鲁吉亚的少数民族女高中生提供了独特的研究经验.
- 参与者获得实践实验室和实地研究经验,重点关注城市环境暴露和健康影响.
- 教师获得了适应性的课堂经验,提高了他们教授环境健康主题的能力.
结论:
- EMPOWER计划解决了在科学,技术,工程和数学 (STEM) 领域增加多样性的关键需求.
- 该计划培养了精心准备的研究人员,具有适用于学术和非学术职业的批判性思维技能.
- 参与者有能力理解和应对当前和新兴的环境健康挑战,促进环境正义.
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