Conscious Science Education

Abstract

This paper evaluates the past achievements and future challenges on the field of Science Education. It tries to offer a panorama of the most important consensus achieved by the research community and it synthesizes some essential elements of the paradigm emerging from science teaching in line with them (goals, theoretical foundations and curriculum prescriptions). Lastly, it analyzes the difficulties to face change and it submits proposals in order to invigorate it from a scientific perspective, as well as from an ethic and sociopolitical point of view.