Open AccessEpistemología, caos y enseñanza de las ciencias
Author(s) -
Máximo Luffiego García,
Marisa Bastida,
Felipe de Azevedo Ramos,
Jorge Martínez Soto
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
enseñanza de las ciencias/enseñanza de las ciencias
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.495
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2174-6486
pISSN - 0212-4521
DOI - 10.5565/rev/ensciencias.4489
Subject(s) - reductionism , reproduction , epistemology , knowledge production , sociology , sociology of scientific knowledge , social science , philosophy , computer science , ecology , biology , knowledge management
In this article it is maintained that modern science is going through a critical period where its epistemological assumptions and the use of a parcelling and reductionist methodology are questioned. This will surely have important implications in the teaching of the sciences, perhaps because the world today demands above all an epistemological change in the people who, within a few years, will occuppy the posts in the production and reproduction of scientific and technical knowledge