New England Workshop on Science and Social Change, Massachusetts, 2004

该提案要求提供资金，以启动一个新英格兰科学和社会变革讲习班，由马萨诸塞州波士顿大学主办，但设在海洋生物实验室，伍兹霍尔，在春季为期4-5天。这些讲习班将有大约12名参加者，其创新性和互动性很强，目的是促进从事科学发展与社会变革之间互动方面教学和写作的大学教师之间的讨论和长期合作，该项目的一般影响将来自于展示以下方面：科学家、科学教育工作者和STS学者可以相互交流工作成果;学术研讨会使参与者能够将手头问题的理论、教学、实践、政治和个人方面联系起来，这可以促进新的项目和合作;而且，富有成效的研讨会可以以适当的成本举办。具体的知识影响将取决于讲习班的主题。关于“DNA时代环境与发展的复杂性”的第一个讲习班将促进科学家和STS学者对遗传学和生物决定论的批评性评论，并设法激发关于环境对发展的贡献的更深入讨论，对第一个讲习班的评价将为申请资助第二个讲习班提供基础。

This proposal requests funds to initiate a New England Workshop on Science and Social Change, hosted by the University of Massachusetts Boston but located at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, over a 4-5 day period in the spring. The innovative, interactive-intensive nature of these workshops, which will have about 12 participants, is designed to facilitate discussion and longer-term collaboration among college faculty who teach and write about interactions between scientific developments and social change.The general impact of the project will derive from showing the following: scientists, science educators, and STS scholars can cross fertilize each other's work; academic workshops that allow participants to connect theoretical, pedagogical, practical, political, and personal aspects of the issue at hand can foster new projects and collaborations; and, productive workshops can be run at modest costs. The specific intellectual impact will depend on the theme of the workshop. The first workshop on "Complexities of environment and development in the Age of DNA" will foster critical commentary by scientists and STS scholars on genetics and biological determinism and seek to stimulate deeper discussions about environmental contributions in development.Evaluation of the first workshop will provide a basis for requesting funding a second workshop.