ABSTRACT:
This article explores connections between science and tecnology studies and research in the field of education, and is based on the work of Stevens (2013), who takes us on an ethnographic and historical stroll among bioinformatics laboratories. The article was conceived during a conversation between the co-authors, who come from different countries and were urged to make and comment on epistemological and ontological inferences from the transformational technologies in the life sciences for education research. The essay looks at gaps in genetic sequencing processing and in the technologically mediated production of data in order to pedagogically prepare ourselves and others for a life that we are already living. Our argument is that it is up to research in the field of education to explore scientific practices in a way that imaginatively mobilizes people, so that we can change that questions we make about life, knowledge and politics in a more than “human” environment.
Keywords:
data; science and technology; bioinformatics