Education for science and science for education: more than a play upon words

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Danielle Grynszpan²  Tania C Araújo-jorge¹ 

[1] ,Departamento de Biologia Laboratório de Educação Ambiental em Saúde

关键词: scientific education;    health education;    science popularization;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0074-02762000000700008

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

In the celebration of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute centenary, we wanted to stress our concern with the relationship between two of its missions: research and education. What are the educational bases required for science and technology activities on health sciences for the future years? How can scientists collaborate to promote the popularization of academic knowledge and to improve a basic education for citizenship in an ethic and humanistic view? In this article we pointed out to need of commitment, even in the biomedical post-graduation level, of a more integrated philosophy that would be centered on health education, assuming health as a dynamic biological and social equilibrium and emphasizing the need of scientific popularization of science in a cooperative construction way, instead of direct transfer of knowledge, preserving also macro views of health problems in the development of very specific studies. The contemporary explosion of knowledge, particularly biological knowledge, imposes a need of continuous education to face the growing illiteracy. In order to face this challenge, we think that the Oswaldo Cruz Institute honors his dialectic profile of tradition and transformation, always creating new perspectives to disseminate scientific culture in innovated forms.

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