Abstract

VAZ MONIZ DOS SANTOS, Maria Eduarda. Cidadania, conhecimento, ciência e educação CTS: Rumo a "novas" dimensões epistemológicas. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2005, vol.2, n.6, pp.137-157. ISSN 1850-0013.

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.

Keywords : Knowledge society; "Civilizing" science; "Scientifying" citizenship; STS education.

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