Contribution of socio-scientific issues to development of critical

Abstract

In this paper we try to justify that socio-scientific issues can help to develop critical thinking of students, based on the science education and history of science. These considerations of the history of science can be transformed into socio-scientific issues (SSI), which can be used in science classes.

Keywords

• cuestiones socio-científicas
• pensamiento crítico
• enseñanza de las ciencias
• socio-scientific issues
• critical thinking
• science teaching