education

Welcome to Brain Stories

Curious about the brain? About behavior and experiences/feelings, your own and other people's? There's lots on Serendip to help you think about such things, and to encourage you to develop new understandings and new questions about them, including a whole section on Brain and Behavior and another on Mental Health. And, of course, there are new observations being made all of the time, reported in professional journals, newspapers, magazines, books, and on the web.


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Welcome to Serendip, a place to explore. I'm Ann Dixon, a co-founder and webmaster. For more about me, please visit my home page

This blog is the place where periodically I'll post links to new discussions, exhibits, and interactive programs on Serendip. Enjoy!


A New Kind of Calculus Class

The idea for this paper stemmed from a desire to construct a concept of feminism. As a math major taking an English class on feminism I wanted some way to realize what I have learned in this class. Having come to the realization that I have only practiced critical thinking - a form of de-construction - I wanted to try problem-solving - a form of construction. I read Peggy McIntosh' s article about an ideal feminist education as a challenge to create a classroom where every

Dialogues

For those of you who want to jump immediately into reading the dialogues, feel free. For readers who would like an introduction, of sorts, to the project, read the prologue first.

Rethinking Motherhood: Bryn Mawr, Feminism, and Being a Mother

Rethinking Motherhood: Bryn Mawr, Feminism, andBeing a Mother