Abstract:
In face of current examples of unscientific attitudes with detrimental results to public health, we seek to problematize the teaching of sciences in a sociological way that, while emphasizing relevant aspects of scientific activity, are limited and biased. Illustrating some episodes of the development of science that attest to a frank correlation between scientific theories and an underlying reality, we try to address some typical approximations of relativistic thinking to draw attention to aspects of scientific objectivity that are not addressed in science education. We aim, therefore, to contribute to the teaching practice of teachers interested in questions about scientific objectivity and the uses and abuses of scientific precepts in dubious contexts, so that they complement their own position in this respect.
Keywords:
Scientific education; Scientific realism; Scientific objectivity; Relativism; Pseudoscience