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What IS Science? or Science as Story-Telling or Science as a Common Human Story of Exploration, Discovery, and Creation or Finding Ways to Make it So

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The Challenge: To move toward science seen as ... Primarily process rather than content knowledge Rigor without oppressiveness Concreteness without lifelessness Playfulness without meaninglessness Something that everyone can draw from and be empowered by Something to which everyone can contribute Engaged with rather than isolated from other spheres of human activity

Examples Bryn Mawr College courses Biology 103, Intro Biology Biology 202, Neurobiology and Behavior Biology 223 = English 223, Story of Evolution and Evolution of Stories (cotaught by colleagues in Biology and English/Gender Studies) Biology 310=Philosophy 310, Philosophy of Science (cotaught by colleagues in Philosophy, Biology, and Physics) Chemistry 100, The Stuff of Art College Seminar=English 249, Beauty: A Conversation Between Chemistry and Culture (cotaught by colleagues in Chemistry and English/Gender Studies) Bryn Mawr K-12 Summer Institutes Elsewhere Hadzigeorgiou, Yannis. Humanizing the Teaching of Physics through Storytelling: The Case of Current Electricity. Physics Education, v41 n1 p42-46 Jan 2006

Science as Story Telling in Action
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A project initiated by the Serendip/SciSoc 2005 summer working group