Apprehension of Technosciences and Initiation to Education for Uncertainty: Case of Gene Drive
Apprehension of Technosciences and Initiation to Education for Uncertainty: Case of Gene Drive
Tags: Gene drive, Stakeholder engagementHayet Saoudi and Hanen Bouamoud, Qualitative Approaches to Pedagogical Engineering, 2025.
This research falls within the framework of education about uncertainty. The authors focused on one of the technosciences, namely genetic engineering, and treated it as a ‘socially acute issue’. The research involved a group of Tunisian third-year students in life and earth sciences. They are a group of potential future teachers. They set up a three-phase experiment. The first phase consisted of a pre-test quiz, aimed at assessing the students’ scientific knowledge and the forms of uncertainty they mobilised. The second phase consisted of watching videos on technoscience and genes. The third phase consisted of a post-test quiz designed to monitor changes in the quality of the scientific knowledge required and to highlight the forms of uncertainty used. For the analysis, the authors used analytical grids to characterise the quality of the scientific knowledge and the forms of uncertainty involved. The results show that integrating socially current issues has a significant effect on education about uncertainty and on the acquisition of scientific knowledge.
