Resumen

PEREZ JIMENEZ, César. Technologization or Democratization of Education? Between Debates, Crossroads and Critiques from the STS Point of View. Revista de Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2006, vol.12, n.1, pp.93-109. ISSN 1315-9518.

Education has assumed the incorporation of Information and communication technologies (ICT), pre-supposing a substantial transformation of the curriculum, the permanent formation of teachers and an adequate social structuring of the school as a pedagogical stage. This research attempts an analysis of the possibilities of socio- cultural development of education from the perspective of local opportunities of access and the use telematic resources emphasizing the construction of individual and collective identities based upon representations of techno-scientific aspects which allow the integration of disciplinary knowledge and social knowledge within pedagogical actions. This structure legitimizes the organization of a series of presupposed emancipator discourse conductors that seek affirmation within the framework of educational rationalities in the light of current techno-scientific developments. The link between science, technology and society (STS), the bonding between education and the ICT, as well as the goals established as a result of this dialectic, and the value of the CTS are focused on as key to reformulating democratic education in order to legitimize social citizenships. Finally the need for a political-educational project supported by a social-ethical sense for the democratization of the ICT is underlined.

Palabras clave : Technological transformation of education; the ICT focus; informational and communicational technologies; social knowledge.