Abstract

PETIT, María Francisca; SOLBES, Jordi  and  TORRES, Nidia Yaneth. Science fiction cinema to raise socio-scientific issues and critical thinking. Prax. Saber [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.29, pp.52-73.  Epub Oct 16, 2021. ISSN 2216-0159.  https://doi.org/10.19053/22160159.v12.n29.2021.11550.

This reflection article describes how science fiction cinema [SFC] could be used in science education from the perspective of socio-scientific issues [SSI] to contribute to the development of critical thinking [CT] skills, considering that SFC is based on science, from which it obtains knowledge, but also on issues that connect the scientific world to society, the economy, or morality. Therefore, we reflect on the CT and its relation to science. Next, we see that cinema legitimizes worldviews. However, since the SFC deals with issues such as genetic manipulation, artificial intelligence, or global warming, which incorporate controversial scientific, social, economic, political, and ethical aspects, it allows us to use them in a science, technology, and society approach to science education. Lastly, we analyze some of the SFC films in order to design, based on them, SSI in the classroom, an aspect that could impact on the way in which students perceive science.

Keywords : science fiction cinema; science education; science; technology and society (STS); socio-scientific issues.

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