Citizenship, Knowledge, Science and STS Education
Toward “New” Epistemological Dimensions
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https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-994Keywords:
knowledge society, “civilizing” science, “scientifying” citizenship, STS educationAbstract
In a society increasingly based on the intensive use of knowledge and at a time when the post-modern discourse focuses on the de-construction of liberal citizenship and favors the construction of “new” dimensions of citizenship, a new social, technological matrix of science is surfacing, cutting with the positivist paradigm that has underlain modern science and citizenship. When techno-science has become the object of social conflict and political debate and when “civilizing” science and “scientifying” citizenship are conditions for promoting a less arrogant science and a more democratic citizenship, STS education arises as a hope. The construction of a cultural, critical and active citizenship requires as its epistemological strategy STS conceptualizations and rationalities that, before a potent cognitive force – the solidarity of knowledge – repositions being through knowing.
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