Socio-scientific reasoning influenced by identities |
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| Authors: | Laurence Simonneaux Jean Simonneaux |
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| Institution: | (1) Didactique des Savoirs Professionnels, Scientifiques et Sociaux Emergents, Toulouse EducAgro, ENFA, France;(2) Didactique des Savoirs Professionnels, Scientifiques et Sociaux Emergents, Toulouse EducAgro, ENFA, France |
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| Abstract: | Based on the comments by Lopez-Facal and Jiménez-Aleixandre, we consider that the cultural identities within Europe interfere
with the question of the re-introduction of the Slovenian bear, generating a kind of “discrimination.” When the SAQs under
debate run against the students’ systems of value, it seems that the closer the connection between the SAQs (socially acute
questions) and the territorial and cultural identity, the more deeply the associated systems of values are affected; and the
more the evidence is denied, the weaker the socio-scientific reasoning becomes. This result shows the importance of attempting
to get the students to clarify the values underlying their socio-scientific reasoning. As Sadler observed, there was no transfer
of socio-scientific reasoning on the three questions considered; each SAQ, as they are deeply related to social representations
and identity, generated a specific line of reasoning balancing more or less each operation. Among various methods of teaching
SAQs—problematizing, genetic, doctrinal and praxeological methods––socio-scientific reasoning may be a complex activity of
problematization fostering the development of critical thinking. Confronted with the refusal to analyse the evidence in the
case of the bear, and because of the nature of SAQs, we explore the notion of tangible proof. We think it relevant to study, together with the students, the processes of investigation used by the actors to establish
or disestablish tangible proof on SAQs by analysing the intermediary states of the systems of proof, and possibly the “weak signals” which
result in calling for the implementation of the precautionary principle.
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| Keywords: | Social representation Identity Socio-scientific reasoning Socially acute questions Socio-scientific issues |
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