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Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall, 2010: Session 6
Session 6
Class is itself an experiment in a particular form of education: co-constructive inquiry
Learning by interacting, sharing observations and understandings to create, individually and collectively, new understandings and new questions that motivate new observations

Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall, 2010: Session 5
Session 5
Class is itself an experiment in a particular form of education: co-constructive inquiry
Learning by interacting, sharing observations and understandings to create, individually and collectively, new understandings and new questions that motivate new observations

Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall, 2010: Session 4
Session 4
Class is itself an experiment in a particular form of education: co-constructive inquiry
Learning by interacting, sharing observations and understandings to create, individually and collectively, new understandings and new questions that motivate new observations

Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall, 2010: Session 3
Session 3
Class is itself an experiment in a particular form of education: co-constructive inquiry
Learning by interacting, sharing observations and understandings to create, individually and collectively, new understandings and new questions that motivate new observations

"She's a woman": "Fact" or ... ?
Biology in Society Senior Seminar
Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010
Session 3:
"She's a woman": "Fact" or ... ?
- Are "woman" and "man" well-defined discrete categories?
- Should we try and make them so?
- Is biology relevant to such a discussion?
- What does biology have to say? How should it contribute?
Some thoughts from last session

Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall, 2010: Session 2
Session 2
Class is itself an experiment in a particular form of education: co-constructive inquiry
Learning by interacting, sharing observations and understandings to create, individually and collectively, new understandings and new questions that motivate new observations

Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall, 2010: Session 1
Session 1
Class is itself an experiment in a particular form of education: co-constructive inquiry
Learning by interacting, sharing observations and understandings to create, individually and collectively, new understandings and new questions that motivate new observations

Science and cultures/values
Biology in Society Senior Seminar
Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010
Sessions 1,2: Science and Culture/Values
- Is biology/science "objective", value-free, culture-independent, universal?
- Should it be?
- Is there a distinctive biology/science culture? set of values?
- Should there be?
BBC News Hour 26 August (1300 GMT) segment on medicine and religion 44:01-49:30)

Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall 2010: Resources
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