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Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology: A Problem-Based Learning Experiment

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesWGS.693
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2009English
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What can we learn about science and technology–and what can we do with that knowledge? Who are “we” in these questions?–whose knowledge and expertise gets made into public policy, new medicines, topics of cultural and political discourse, science education, and so on? How can expertise and lay knowledge about science and technology be reconciled in a democratic society?

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