ICRSME Moments - International Science and Mathematics Collaborations Fostered by ICRSME Consultations - Editorial

Aug 25, 2026

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Editorial汇聚ICRSME长期朋友的口述，讲述在ICRSME咨询（Consultations）推动下，教育者在主办国与研究圈之间形成合作的亲身经历。文中依次呈现：Pamela Fraser-Abder回忆ICRSME从需求出发而被构想的缘由，阐释其如何连接大学与学校、促进研究与课堂教学的互学互鉴；随后Michael Kamen与Kathy Horak Smith分享通过访问当地学校与跨国会议建立的学术协作路径与体验。

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ICRSME Moments

编者寄语：三位长期朋友的口述

Pamela Fraser-Abder：ICRSME的构想与早期机制

Michael Kamen：1991年后的合作缘起与访校经验

ICRSME Moments: International Science and Mathematics Collaborations Fostered by ICRSME Consultations Mark A. Bloom Dallas Baptist University Sarah Quebec Fuentes Texas Christian University In this editorial, we share the voices of three long-time ICRSME friends. We interviewed each to get their personal experiences of collaborating with educators in ICRSME Consultation host countries. In what follows, Dr. Pamela Fraser-Abder recollects how ICRSME was conceived to foster international research collaborations. Then, Dr. Michael Kamen and Dr. Kathy Horak Smith share their personal collaborative experiences with host-country schools that emerged from ICRSME Consultations. Pamela Fraser-Abder Dr. Pamela Fraser-Abder, Professor Emeritus of Science Education at New York University, has been involved with ICRSME from its inception. She shared with us how the first ICRSME consultation developed from an identified need to bring various educational researchers together to collaborate and support each other's work. In 1984, both Dr. Fraser-Abder and Dr. Arthur White, Emeritus Professor of Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education at The Ohio State University, were independently researching education throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. This similar research interest was what initiated the idea of ICRSME: It started with [Dr. White], in the U.S., getting funding to come down to Trinidad to work with teachers …he was also working in other Latin America and Caribbean countries. I was in Trinidad at that time and had gotten some funding from UNESCO to do a project on research going on in the Caribbean and Latin America. And what I was finding was that people were literally sitting in their offices, next to each other, and not knowing what research [eachother] were doing. And many times their research could be supportive of one another. So, based on that, I got UNESCO to fund a source book on science education research and the Caribbean. Soon after, Dr. Fraser-Abder presented her work at a meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), which is where she and Dr. White met. They also interacted with educators from Panamá and Costa Rica and talks began about how they could bring together these various silos of educational research to share and collaborate with one another. [The group] went to Ohio and talked about our research and what we're doing and how we can work together and how we can form this group. [Someone asked] ‘Why don't we have ameeting?’ And I said, Okay, ‘I'll do it in Trinidad.’ So that’s how the first ICRSME meeting was started. As Dr. Fraser-Abder described it, the vision that developed was to: Pull people at the university and school level together so that we could learn from each other and share the research we had been doing at universities with teachers in classrooms. And the idea was to develop a sort of conference, which was different from the run of the mill conference where you went, you sat down, you listened to people, and then you left. We thought we needed to be more immersed in the culture of the country, so that we got a better understanding of what was happening in each country. After moving to the U.S., Dr. Fraser-Abder’s vision of what ICRSME could be began to develop further: I was teaching in New York City, and I would look around my class and I would have [education students] literally from around the world in the classroom …people from Latin America, the Caribbean, India, Europe … and it was their first interaction with somebody who didn't look like them. And they had no idea about the culture of the different peoples that they were going to be teaching. You know, where they came from, what did they eat? What was their religion? What were their views on certain things? So, that sort of made me focus even more on ICRSME as a place where we can learn about the cultures of people who we were meeting in our classrooms. In what follows, two

FAQs

ICRSME的构想如何从实际需求中产生？

Pamela Fraser-Abder提到，研究者在不同办公室彼此不了解各自研究成果，因而需要将教育研究者聚拢起来互相学习、支持并协作。

ICRSME会议与一般会议相比，核心差异是什么？

文中强调其更强调沉浸式理解主办国家文化，以帮助参与者更好理解各国的教育情境与发生的事情，而不仅是听完报告就离开。

Michael Kamen在ICRSME咨询中如何建立与他人的合作联系？

他描述自己在1991年参加咨询时，因与另一位研究者及Pamela Fraser-Abder的接触与讨论而开展共同的展示内容，从而逐步形成合作。

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