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Sharon Burgmayer, 2000 (modified 2001)

Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Story Telling as Inquiry Paul Grobstein

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Course Information Course Schedule Current Course Forum Area Forum Archive (click here for complete forum) Stories of a picture, diversity Folk tales Looking deeper into folk tales From folk tales to science More on science and its stories More on science and its stories The unconscious and the story teller (tacit knowledge and the body) The unconscious and the story teller (language and thought) The unconscious/conscious interplay Culture Culture as Disability Parable of the Sower Culture of Bryn Mawr Photo Gallery After the fact ... Course evaluation comments

Some relevant web resources:

• Tracey Chapman

• Patricia Hampl
• I Could Tell You Stories, by Patricia Hampl

• Mary Catherine Bateson
• Crossing Cultures: A Talk with Mary Catherine Bateson

• Audre Lorde Page
  
• Audre Lorde's Life and Career

• Maxine Hong Kingston--Biography
  
• Maxine Hong Kingston--After the Fire: Interview

• Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers, original texts in German and English translations, with illustrations and documentation, from Virginia Commmonwealth University
• Grimm Brothers' Home Page, by D.L. Ashliman, recently retired from the University of Pittsburgh

• Folk Tales, from the Afro-American Almanac
• Indian Fairy Tales
• Folktales from Japan
• Korean Folktales
• Russian Folktales

• Ann Sexton, from Modern American Poetry
• Remembering Anne Sexton, by Erica Jong
• Ann Sexton, from Diane Middlebrook

• Bruno Bettelheim, from Encyclopedia.com
• Bruno Bettelheim, a set of links
• Hero or Humbug?, review of two biographies
• Review of the book Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis, appearing in the Skeptic's Dictionary
• A Psychology for a Changing World, a 1988/99 Chairperson of the "renamed, redefined, and reinvigorated Psychotherapy Section of the British Psychological Society", focusing on "a story-telling approach to psychology".

• International Brecht Society
• Bertold Brecht Turns 100
• The Galileo Project
• Galileo - Journey to Jupiter

• Flatland, text on line.
• Math plots and plans: Edwin A. Abbott
• Social satire in Flatland
• Math Expands: Madeleine L'Engle ... about the author of Wrinkle in Time
• Time travel in Flatland?, "an animated tutorial in physics, light cones, and causality" ...
  
• see also Special News Bulletin from Flatland
• Unseen Dimensions. Scientific American. (August, 2000.)

• Michel Foucault

• Daniel C. Dennett's Homepage
• Further reading on Edge:
  • Daniel C. Dennett
  • Show Me the Science
  • The Computational Perspective
  • The Evolution of Culture
  • Dennett's Deal
  • Intuition Pumps

• Science and Creationism. National Academy of Science
• www.creationism.org
• Creation Science
• Scientific Creationism
• Evolutionists Battle New Theory on Creationism. New York Times(April 4, 2001.) 8.
• The "New" Creationism. Slate. (April 16, 2001.)
• Defending the Teaching of Evolution in the Public Schools. National Center for Science Education
• Discovery Institute, Center for Science and Culture

• Seeing More Than Your Eye Does
• Time to Think, on Serendip
• The Three Doors, on Serendip
• Test Yourself For Hidden Bias

• Michael Polyani and Tacit Knowledge
• Michael Polanyi: Scientist Turned Philosopher
• "Philosophy In The Flesh"-- A Talk With George Lakoff
• George P. Lakoff

• Vygotsky Resources

• Steven Pinker
• Steve Pinker Unofficial Page
• Steven Pinker Third Culture

• The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis by Daniel Chandler
  
• The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: a Critique, by Neil Parr-Davies
  
• Mary Klages' lecture on Jacques Lacan

• Oliver Sacks

• Leslie Marmon Silko
• Native American Authors Project: Leslie Marmon Silko

• Clifford Geertz, Biography and Bibliography
• Clifford Geertz, Emphasizing Culture
• Clifford Geertz, Ethnography and Social Construction

• Octavia Butler (from Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America)
• Octavia Butler, from Wikipedia

• The Bryn Mawr Summer School Opens Its Doors
• Historical Marker Dedication

• M. Carey Thomas
• The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas
• M. Carey Thomas as Daring Visonary and Flawed Reformer
• M. Carey Thomas and the Making of the Bryn Mawr Campus
• Erdman and Louis Kahn
• Kahn Centenary

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