This “so called” philosophy: about the conceptions of technology and their reflexes on the formative process in engineering

• Autor(a) principal: Bordin, Leandro
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Bazzo, Walter Antonio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Ciência e Tecnologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/rbect/article/view/5728
• topic: Área: Ciências Humanas; Sub-área: Educação; Abordagem interdisciplinar do conhecimento na educação; Engenharia e humanidades; Engenharia - Estudo e ensino (Educação permanente); Philosophy of technology; Critical theory of technology; Science, technology and society (STS); Education in engineering

The article has as its objective to establish relations between the Critical Theory of Technology – by the philosopher Andrew Feenberg – and education in Engineering. Through the understanding that the social universe and the technological universe find themselves in a narrow relation, this important conception of technological development guides to a more critical and reflective formative process, committed to a collective welfare. As a methodological route we used the bibliographical research and via this we built referrals about the implementation of such an approach in the Engineering courses. In this sense, we suggest: (a) interdisciplinary practices that allow approximation between philosophy of science and philosophy of technology; (b) construction and consolidation of programs around the focus STS; and (c) creation – because of the immediacy of these subjects – of a subject of Technology and Development with contents that deal with the interwoven – and never linear – relation between man, society, science and technology.