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Science as Story Telling and Story Revision:
A Conversation

Target Article: "Revisiting Science in Culture ..." On-line forum for continuing discussion Science As Story Telling in Action - a new Serendip exhibit

"Science" has meant different things at different times in history, means different things to different people at the same time time (such as the present), and can mean different things to the same person at different points in their own lifetime. To put it differently "science" is, like many things, an evolving concept, one that derives its significance in part from a continual and public challenging and revision of its meaning.

Revisiting Science in Culture: Science as Story Telling and Story Revising is a recent contribution to the ongoing public process of negotiating and renegotiating the meaning of "science". It argues for a broader view of science (and science education), one that has the potential to make of science "shared human stories of exploration and growth ... in which all human beings are involved and take pride". Additional material provided here and an associated on-line forum area are intended as contributions to further exploring that possibility and, more generally, to the continuing exploration of the concept of science and its place in human culture.

Visitors are warmly invited to post reactions and thoughts related to Revisiting Science or any of the other materials made available here in the on-line forum. Suggestions for additional material to be added to this page are also welcome and should be sent to Paul Grobstein.

"Science As Story Telling" Revisions for Particular Audiences

• Re science and religion
  • Science: Be Not Afraid, Kate Shiner
  • Religion as Testing: Another Story of Story Revising, Anne Dalke
  • Science as Story Telling, Barry Bickmore and David Grandy
• Re science and "scientists"
  • Why Reconcile Science and Culture? Important Challenges for the Scientific Community, Rebekah Baglini

Routes to Changing Views of Science

• This Isn't Just MY Problem, Friend: Some Thoughts on Science Education, Education, American Culture, and What to Do About It, Paul Grobstein, 1991
• Getting It Less Wrong: Some Thoughts on Introductory Science Teaching ..., Paul Grobstein, 1993
• Nurturing the Scientific Mind in School: Transdisciplinary Experiences 'Avant La Date', Jan Visser, 2005

Additional Relevant Serendip Materials

• Science and Education: What's It All About?
• The Two Cultures: A Conversation
• More on the Two Cultures: An Exchange Involving a Social Scientist, A Humanist, and a Scientist
• Science and Culture, a Serendip section

Additional Relevant Materials Available On Line Elsewhere

• Center for Science in Society, at Bryn Mawr College
• Journal of Research Practice, an international on-line, open access, referreed journal
• Edge, an ezine
• Building the Scientific Mind, An International Colloquium, May, 2005
• A Continuation of Paul Grobstein's Theory of Science as Story Telling and Story Revising: A Discussion of its Relevance to History

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