Critical theory and curriculum practice in STS education

✍ Scribed by Leonard J. Waks

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 651 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-4544
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00382585

✦ Synopsis

The STS education movement is identified and related to the critique of technology of the 1960s-1970s. The critics of technology included the system of education in their critiques. There is a practical tension or "contradiction" in attempting to develop their insights within the curriculum routines of the schools and colleges. This tension is explored under six categories: reductive knowledge, socialization of technical modes of thinking, technicalized processes of learning, the loss of meaning, radical monopoly over learning, and the socialization of secular values.