Perspectives and contemporary reflections on the triangle education-technology-society and its influence on science teaching [Olhares e reflexões contemporâneas sobre o triângulo sociedade-educação-tecnologias e suas influências no ensino das ciências]

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2014

Authors

Carla Morais (Author) FCUP; João Paiva (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: Educação e Pesquisa

Vol. 40 No. 2

Pages: 953-964

ISSN: 1517-9702

Publisher: Universidade de São Paulo

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Authenticus ID: P-00A-6N0

DOI: 10.1590/s1517-97022014121411

Abstract (EN): When we talk about society, education and technology, it becomes clear how technology has been the source of the most expressive changes that occurred in the society of the 20th and early 21st centuries' society. Technology has been pointed out as responsible for transforming several significant aspects of social reality to such an extent that some authors argue that we are facing new forms of organization of the economic system and of society, which the educational system should seek to match and accommodate. In this article, we present different perspectives which we believe can be successful in promoting a sustained and projective reflection on the past, the present and the future of the interrelationships in social, educational and technological spheres and the possible effects on science teaching that they entail. The article addresses five topics deemed relevant to substantiate the reflection on the subject under consideration. We first present some thoughts about the information society, the network metaphor and the collective potential. We continue with a focus on technology and its relation with the "schools that learn". We then argue that digital literacy goes far beyond technological competence and stress how school - and its agents - can play a mediating role between the challenges of the Knowledge Society and new generations. In this context of multiple interlinked dependencies, the article ends with reflections on science education, science teaching and scientific literacy in the information society.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific