Understanding about the nature of science in science education from the focus Science, Technology and Society (STS)

Abstract

this article discusses how to understand the nature of science within the teaching of sciences using an approach focused on STS that helps us to develop a scientific education based on social problems regarding science and technology. In this regard, we review briefly the transition from a traditional idea of science and technology to a social image of these fields. Likewise, we describe the point of view of the STS approach in education which aims its efforts at a more centered, reflexive, and critical teaching of science. Finally, we offer an assessment on how to integrate the nature of science from a STS approach in science teaching from the perspective of citizen education.

Keywords

• scientific education
• science of nature
• Science
• Technology and Society (STS)
• science teaching