The Nature of Science, Technology and Society.pptx

THE NATURE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

(SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS)

Shaira Padillo

Science, Technology and Society

Science, technology, society and environment (STSE) education, originates from the Science, Technology and Society (STS)movement in science education.

This is an outlook on science education that emphasizes the teaching of scientific and technological developments in their cultural, economic, social and political contexts. In this view of science education, students are encouraged to engage in issues pertaining to the impact of science on everyday life and make responsible decisions about how to address such issues

Science, Technology and Society

The Science, Technology, and Society Program (STS) supports research and associated activities that examine the relationships among science, technology, engineering, and society.

It considers proposals that examine historical, philosophical, social, cultural, policy, and ethical questions that arise in connection with science and technology, and their respective interactions with society. It is committed to the importance and intrinsic value of scholarly research conducted by individual investigators; to qualitative, interpretive, and quantitative research; and to analytical, critical, theoretical, empirical, ethnographic, and comparative studies.

Science, Technology and Society

The STS movement has a long history in science education reform, and embraces a wide range of theories about the intersection between science, technology and society .

Over the last twenty years, the work of Peter Fensham, the noted Australian science educator, is considered to have heavily contributed to reforms in science education.

From Fensham's point of view, this meant that students would engage with different viewpoints on issues concerning the impact of science and technology on everyday life. They would also understand the relevance of scientific discoveries, rather than just concentrate on learning scientific facts and theories that seemed distant from their realities.

STS considers proposals in four broad:

Studies of ethics and values in science and technology examine normative issues in the conduct of science and the development and implementation of technology. Proposals focus on how ethical issues and values interconnect with science and technology, and how norms and values institutionalized in science and technology engage with society. Proposals in this area of STS may examine how ethics in scientific and technological research are defined, and by whom.

STS considers proposals in four broad:

Studies in history and philosophy of science and technology use the traditions and tools of history and philosophy to examine intellectual, theoretical, socio-cultural, and material dimensions of science and technology. Proposals in this area of STS engage in analytical, critical, reflective, and interpretive modes of study of the scientific and technological enterprises both past and present.

STS considers proposals in four broad:

Social studies of science and technology draw upon the social and behavioral sciences including anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, psychology, geography, and science and technology studies. Proposals in this area examine the interconnections of science, technology, and society. Supported research will bring the tools and theories of the social sciences to bear on such issues as how science and technology function in different societies, and how culture and society and science, technology, and engineering shape each other.

STS considers proposals in four broad:

Studies in policy on science and technology include research on social and strategic choices, especially policy choices, that influence knowledge production and innovation and their effects, and on the influences of scientific and technical knowledge and innovation on policy. Proposals in this area typically draw upon methodologies of the social sciences including qualitative, interpretive, and quantitative approaches.

Goals of Science, Technology and Society

The key goals of STS are:

An interdisciplinary approach to science education, where there is a seamless integration of economic, ethical, social and political aspects of scientific and technological developments in the science curriculum.

Engaging students in examining a variety of real world issues and grounding scientific knowledge in such realities. In today's world, such issues might include the impact on society of: global warming, genetic engineering, animal testing, deforestation practices, nuclear testing and environmental legislations.

Goals of Science, Technology and Society

Enabling students to formulate a critical understanding of the interface between science, society and technology.

Developing students’ capacities and confidence to make informed decisions, and to take responsible action to address issues arising from the impact of science on their daily lives.

Opportunities And Challenges Of STS Education

Although advocates of STS education keenly emphasize its merits in science education, they also recognize inherent difficulties in its implementation

Values & beliefs: The goals of STS education may challenge the values and beliefs of students and teachers—as well as conventional, culturally entrenched views on scientific and technological developments. Students gain opportunities to engage with, and deeply examine the impact of scientific development on their lives from a critical and informed perspective.

This helps to develop students' analytical and problem solving capacities, as well as their ability to make informed choices in their everyday lives.

Opportunities And Challenges Of STS Education

Knowledge & understanding: The interdisciplinary nature of STS education requires teachers to research and gather information from a variety of sources. At the same time, teachers need to develop a sound understanding of issues from various disciplines—philosophy, history, geography, social studies, politics, economics, environment and science.

This is so that students’ knowledge base can be appropriately scaffolded to enable them to effectively engage in discussions, debates and decision-making processes.

Opportunities And Challenges Of STS Education

Pedagogic approach: Depending on teacher experience and comfort levels, a variety of pedagogic approaches based on constructivism can be used to stimulate STSE education in the classroom.

Meaning of Technology

Technology Technology (from Greek, techne, "art, skill,

cunning of hand”)is the collection of techniques, methods or processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation.

Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, etc. or it can be embedded in machines, computers, devices and factories, which can be operated by individuals without detailed knowledge of the workings of such things.

Technology The purposeful application of information in

the design, production, and utilization of goods and services, and in the organization of human activities.

The branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial as, engineering, applied science, and pure science.

Meaning of Science

Science Science is a systematic enterprise that

builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. In an older and closely related meaning, "science" also refers to this body of knowledge itself, of the type that can be rationally explained and reliably applied. Ever since classical antiquity, science as a type of knowledge has been closely linked to philosophy.

Science Body of knowledge comprising of

measurable or verifiable facts acquired through application of the scientific method, and generalized into scientific laws or principles. While all sciences are founded on valid reasoning and conform to the principles of logic, they are not concerned with the definitiveness of their assertions or findings.

Science The word science comes from the Latin

"scientia," meaning knowledge.

According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, the definition of science is "knowledge attained through study or practice," or "knowledge covering general truths of the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained and tested through scientific method concerned with the physical world."

Science Knowledge about or study of the natural

world based on facts learned through experiments and observation.

A particular area of scientific study (such as biology, physics, or chemistry) or a particular branch of science.

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