Abstract

GARCIA RAMIREZ, Natalia Katherine  and  MARTINEZ PEREZ, Leonardo Fabio. The Impact of a Scientific Issue Aproach on the Scientific and Technological Literacy of Youth and Adults. Prax. Saber [online]. 2015, vol.6, n.11, pp.87-114. ISSN 2216-0159.

The processes of the scientific and technological literacy (STL) developed with communities of youth and adults do not usually emerge beyond the classroom, these are simply compulsory for obtaining a degree. In such a context, this paper presents the results of a research whose purpose was to analyze the impact of the discussion about controversial aspects of a socio-scientific issue (SCI) on the SLT process of a group of youth and adults who studied a secondary school program by cycles in the town of Chia, Cundinamarca (Colombia). Some SCI-based activities related to the pollution caused by the industrial action in the Rio Frio sub-basin river (Cundinamarca, Colombia) were designed and implemented for the analysis. It was found that working with SCI in literacy processes allows the formation of a critical and participatory subject, thus encouraging the learning of science concepts and their relationship with social and technological implications.

Keywords : science education; citizenship education; CTSA; critical qualitative research.

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