The initial focus of Collaborative Explorations cases has been on scientific and social change, but the approach can be adapted to other fields.
- Grassroots or citizen initiatives that have attempted to influence the directions taken in science and technology
- Engaging the public to be informed participants in political debates about science, technology, and social change
- Is the new genomics reconfiguring "race"?
- The possible place of "science criticism" in education and culture
- How was the 1918 flu pandemic forgotten so quickly?
- How changeable are IQ test scores?
- What causes a disease?
- Health: What's Race got to do with it?
- How complexities of the social environment shape the ways that society makes use of knowledge about 'genetic' conditions
- Responsible Development of Emerging Technologies
- Interpreting ideas about nature
- How did Darwin try to convince people of Natural selection as the mechanism of evolution?
- Images and metaphors of organisms' development that do not rely on a central controller
- Community-building and Research Collaboration in Virtual Spaces
- Who makes sense of developments in science and technology?
- Sustainability, science, and social change
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