HUMANISTIC SCIENCE EDUCATION FROM PAULO FREIRE’S ‘EDUCATION AS THE PRACTICE OF FREEDOM ’ PERSPECTIVE

The purpose of this article is to outline one perspective for humanistic science education taking into account the contributions of Paulo Freire. From the educational principles on literacy expressed in Paulo Freire’s writings and from the conceptions of scientific and technology literacy (STL) movement, arguments will be advanced for characterising a perspective on humanistic science education. The Humanistic Science Education is a slogan that tries to contribute to changing the context of the modern society through educational processes. The modern scientific and technological society is shaped by an ideological technology-system that imposes human exploitation and threatens life in a global scale. The way people select and use technological and scientific resources and information may influence the destiny of society. In this sense, Science Education has a potential to contribute for the transformation of modern society through helping make visible the pitfalls of the system and make people aware o