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
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Theory
Materials on Serendip
Revisiting Science in Culture: Science as Story Telling and Story Revision
See Science as Story Telling and Story Revision: A Conversation for an on-line discussion forum and additional essays, including
Science as Storytelling, by Barry Bickmore and David Grandy
Science as StoryTelling or Story Telling? A Conversation About Science Education ... and Science
Science IS Story: An Exchange Involving a Social Scientist, A Humanist, and a Scientist
Storytelling: Scientist's Perspective, John Seeley Brown, 2001
Education and Technology: Serendip's Experiences 1994-2004
The Two Cultures: A Conversation
With Friends Like These ... , by David Burns, 2005
This Isn't Just MY Problem, Friend: Some Thoughts on Science Education, Education, American Culture, and What to Do About It, by Paul Grobstein, 1991
Getting It Less Wrong: Some Thoughts on Introductory Science Teaching ..., by Paul Grobstein, 1993
Nurturing the Scientific Mind
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School: Transdisciplinary Experiences 'Avant La Date', by Jan Visser, 2005
Abandoning the "War" Between Science and the Humanities: One Student's Experiences, Sarah Halter, 2006
Science as Getting It Less Wrong: Perspectives of High School Students, 2006
Materials elsewhere on the web
Storied Theory, by Roald Hoffman, 2005
Life and/or the Bigger Picture, a student forum conversation in Biology 103, 2005
Biology 202 Evolving: Notes for a Case Study of Teaching and Learning at Bryn Mawr, 2005
Organizational Storytelling, Steve Denning
"Ever since Darwin, we live in a world of stories", Jonathan Weiner, Scientific American, 20 Feb 2006
A Continuation of Paul Grobstein's Theory of Science as Story Telling and Story Revising: A Discussion of its Relevance to History, Toni Weller, 2006
Teaching Science as a Rich Narrative, Ursula Goodenough and William Grassie, Philadelphia Inquirer, 2 June 2006
"If you want to look at science as a story, its the cosmology of our present day ... The universe is made of stories", Kurt Brown, poet, 2005
The Efficacy of Story Telling
The Power of Social Psychological Interventions
Exposure to Scientific Theories Affects Women's Math Performance
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
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Granny nodded.
"There's always a story," she said. "It's all stories really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world."
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