“[Cultural theorist Sylvia] Wynter says we are not Homo sapiens, we are Homo narrans, not the ones who know, but the ones who tell ourselves that we know. She says we therefore have the capacity to know differently. We are word made flesh...
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«[La teórica cultural Sylvia] Wynter dice que no somos Homo sapiens, somos Homo narrans, no los que sabemos, sino los que nos decimos que sabemos. Dice que, por lo tanto, tenemos la capacidad de saber de forma diferente. Somos la palabra...
Ruth Hubbard was born in March, 1924 in Vienna. Both her parents were socialists, physicians, and Jews who, after Hitler’s conquest of Austria in 1938, fled to the United States and settled outside of Boston. Hubbard’s academic career...
Through its “STEM Justice” model, the KAYSC works to change narratives around science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and how people relate to STEM. In this pathway program of out-of-school-time learning, work, and leadership...
In the summer of 2018, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published a report about a critical issue in the sciences: sexual harassment. All too predictably, they found that gender-based harassment is...
In the classroom, the myth of an apolitical, benevolent science prevails. The training of a scientist involves a total submersion in technical material with little if any, historical or philosophical perspective. Research productivity is...