Herbert Marcuse's Critique of Science and Technology: Implications for Science Education

Abstract

In this research we aimed to point out Herbert Marcuse's ideas about the problem of neutrality of science and technology for Science Education. Thus, we conducted an analysis of science and technology through Marcuse's point of view, using for this his texts published in books and articles, and when relevant, we will resort to commentators to complement our ideas regarding the author's understanding and his understanding of science and technology. In this sense, science and technology for Marcuse are one-dimensionalized to be used to dominate nature and promote neutrality, omitting aspects of reflection, among them, the criticism of the dominant status and the emancipation of human beings. To overcome this, Marcuse thought of a new science and a new technology in which we would be placed in harmony with nature and not in conflict with it. Thus, Marcuse's ideas are relevant and more than necessary to think of a new society under the aegis of human emancipation to overcome the one-dimensional society based on domination by scientific and technological rationality.