El currículo de ciencias : un instrumento educativo de carácter político.

Abstract

In this reflection article, we considered that critical theories have given rise to the need to transform the conventional science curriculum into a critical one. This helps students to achieve critical scientific literacy for social and political action, which allows them not only to become aware of scientific and environmental problems, but also to design and implement action plans to build the most appropriate solution. In this curricular perspective, learners are considered young citizens who fight for what is just, good, and correct, as well as for environmentally sustainable development. Science education, from this critical theoretical framework, is assumed as a democratizing pedagogical scenario and a catalyst for individual development and social transfor-mation. To materialize this emancipatory curriculum, a teaching proposal must be designed and implemented that provides infants and young citizens with the opportunity to begin to build not only a scientific culture, but also a culture of sociopolitical action. In this sense, the learning activities that represent the contents of the natural and social-human sciences are sequenced through a model configured by the phases of modeling, practical guidance and application. This model allows students to move from an education focused on raising awareness of socio-scientific and environmental problems, to the planning, execution and evaluation of the socio-political actions necessary to solve these problems.