The Institute for Transformational Education and Responsive Action in a Technoscientific Age
A 501(c) (3) organization
A 501(c) (3) organization
We are dedicated to developing and promoting a new vision for an educated world.
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Our vision recognizes the need for a fresh consideration of what an education is for, of what it means to be educated, and what educated people can do in a technoscientific era. The work of the Institute is to turn this vision into new and actionable approaches to how teachers teach, how students learn, and how education is organized from pre-K to gray. This work is carried out by the core leadership team aided by an international network of fellows and partnering organizations. The core focus of the work begins from a novel approach to how individual and collective experience can serve as a resource for thought and action, and as the basis for a new kind of education. |
An ITERATA Timeline
Prior to forming ITERATA in 2015, Stone and Scharff developed their approach to transdisciplinarity in a series of presentations (including Chicago, New York, Berkeley, Cardiff, and Tubingen), an NSF-funded workshop in 2010, and in their published work. Below, see some highlights of ITERATA’s work since its official founding in 2015. Additionally, they applied their approach in various settings, including the National Forum for Higher Education and the Public Good at the University of Michigan and a Kellogg Foundation-funded public health conference, and consulted on transdisciplinarity with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Structure and Operations
ITERATA is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization comprised of a board of directors, an advisory board, an executive director, a small support staff, and an international network of Fellows. In order to limit expenses and to enlist a broad array of talents, perspectives, and areas of expertise, the core of the work of the Institute is carried out by the Fellows.
ITERATA benefits from ongoing discussions with scholars and experts in relation to our work and in the development of the Fellows Program. Institutional affiliations of those scholars include: Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Stony Brook University, Bard College, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Boise State University, the University of Chicago, Simon Fraser University (Canada), University of Twente (Netherlands), Oxford University (UK), and Bogazici University (Turkey).
ITERATA benefits from ongoing discussions with scholars and experts in relation to our work and in the development of the Fellows Program. Institutional affiliations of those scholars include: Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Stony Brook University, Bard College, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Boise State University, the University of Chicago, Simon Fraser University (Canada), University of Twente (Netherlands), Oxford University (UK), and Bogazici University (Turkey).
Partners and Collaborators
ITERATA is particularly grateful to have the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Community Foundation of Utah. In addition to their support, institutions, organizations, and programs that have agreed to or have expressed interest in serving as experimental or pilot sites for the Institute’s pedagogical or curricular developments include: The National Forum for Higher Education and the Public Good, The National Center for Institutional Diversity, The National Cancer Institute, and The Philosophical Toolbox Project.
Founding Leadership
David A. Stone, President
Dr. Stone holds interdisciplinary BA, MA, (interdisciplinary forensic psychiatry) and Ph.D. (philosophy of science and technology, artificial intelligence) degrees from Boston University. His professional experience includes research and teaching at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Tufts University School of Medicine, as Founding Director of the South East European Research Center, and as a university administrator. Dr. Stone has published and taught in 6 different disciplines, including ideas that form the basis of ITERATA. He also served as an American Council on Education Fellow, and is presently the vice president for research at Oakland University, with appointments as full professor in the departments of philosophy and public health.
Dr. Stone holds interdisciplinary BA, MA, (interdisciplinary forensic psychiatry) and Ph.D. (philosophy of science and technology, artificial intelligence) degrees from Boston University. His professional experience includes research and teaching at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Tufts University School of Medicine, as Founding Director of the South East European Research Center, and as a university administrator. Dr. Stone has published and taught in 6 different disciplines, including ideas that form the basis of ITERATA. He also served as an American Council on Education Fellow, and is presently the vice president for research at Oakland University, with appointments as full professor in the departments of philosophy and public health.
Robert C. Scharff, Executive Director
Dr. Scharff holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University. He is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and has also as taught at Stony Brook University, the University of Oklahoma, and the US Air Force Academy. Dr. Scharff is a member of several editorial boards, served as Editor-in-Chief of Continental Philosophy Review for 12 years, and publishes extensively in philosophy and technoscience studies, including in areas and on topics that form the basis of ITERATA’s conception of its mission. He is also the author of several publications, including Heidegger Becoming Phenomenological: Interpreting Husserl through Dilthey (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Dr. Scharff holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University. He is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and has also as taught at Stony Brook University, the University of Oklahoma, and the US Air Force Academy. Dr. Scharff is a member of several editorial boards, served as Editor-in-Chief of Continental Philosophy Review for 12 years, and publishes extensively in philosophy and technoscience studies, including in areas and on topics that form the basis of ITERATA’s conception of its mission. He is also the author of several publications, including Heidegger Becoming Phenomenological: Interpreting Husserl through Dilthey (Bloomsbury, 2019).