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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

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: Be Not Afraid, by Kate Shiner Why Reconcile Science and Culture? Important Challenges for the Scientific Community, by Rebakah Baglini 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 in 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 Reactions from a graduate student 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   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."

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