Peter Taylor's links related to 2016 Thinktank on Science and Social Justice education

"...Bringing critical analysis of science to bear on the practice and applications of science has not been well developed or supported institutionally. Given this, I have contributed actively to the development of society-at-a-small-scale, through new collaborations, programs, and other activities, new directions for existing programs, and collegial interactions across disciplines and regions..." (from Intersecting Processes: complexity and change in environment, biomedicine and society)

Interdisciplinary initiatives

• Collaborative Explorations
• Dialogue Hours
• Inter-college faculty Seminar in Humanities and Sciences
• New England Workshop on Science and Social Change
  • innovative, interaction-intensive workshops designed to facilitate discussion, research, teaching innovation, and longer-term collaboration among people who teach and write about interactions between scientific developments and social change
  • Online Resources for Science in Society Education and Outreach (generated at NewSSC)
  • "Cultivating Collaborators: Concepts and Questions Emerging Interactively From An Evolving, Interdisciplinary Workshop" (with S. Fifield and C. Young) Science as Culture, 20(1): 89-105, 2011. preprint
• Science in a Changing World initiatives at UMass Boston

Social media

• Intersecting Processes blog
• Probe-Create Change-Reflect blog

Tools and Resources for Groups and Teaching

Taking Yourself Seriously: Processes of Research and Engagement (2012) (printed copy available from online retailers; pdf from http://bit.ly/TYS2014)

• • "A field-book of tools and processes to help readers in all fields develop as researchers, writers, and agents of change"
• • Annotated list of tools and processes in the book

Problem-Based Learning
5-phase dialogue hours
Guided Tour of my teaching (2009)
Syllabi, from 1990 to present

Follow-up via peter.taylor@umb.edu