General Concepts

and STS Historical

Developments

RAISA A. MENDOZA
Instructor, College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Researcher, Center for Engineering, Science, Technology and Innovation (CESTI)
Laboratory Manager, Molecular Microbiology and HABs Laboratory

raisa.mendoza@ssu.edu.ph
ramendoza7@up.edu.ph
 Intended Learning Outcomes:

DISCUSS HOW SCIENTIFIC AND IDENTIFY THE PARADIGM SHIFTS IN ARTICULATE WAYS BY WHICH
TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS HISTORY SOCIETY IS TRANSFORMED BY
AFFECT SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Nature of Science, Technology and Society

Science and Technology

Studies

Interdisciplinary
What is Science?
• An organized, systematic, and
dynamic inquiry (following scientific
method)
Scientific
Method
A method forgathering
and testing ideas about
the world.
Scientific
Method
What is Science?
• An organized, systematic,
and dynamic inquiry
(following scientific method)

• Leads to formation of
concepts, methods, principles,
theories, law and procedures
which seek to describe and
explain nature and its
phenomena
Intellectual Revolution that
Defined Society
Science as an idea
• Ideas, theories and all available systematic explanations and
observations about the natural and physical world

Science as an intellectual activity

• A systematic and practical study of the natural word and
physical world. This process of study involves systematic
observation and experimentation.

Science as a body of knowledge

• A subject or a discipline, a field of study or a body of
knowledge that deals with the process of learning about the
natural and physical world.

Science as a personal and social activity

• Both knowledge and activities done by human beings to
develop better understanding of the world around them.
What is Technology?

• the application of knowledge

in solving scientific and
practical problems that will
help humans to survive and
improve his life

• results of scientific inquiry

Scientific Revolution

Why in
• The idea of scientific revolution is Europe?
claimed to have started in the 16th
century in Europe.
• Invention of the printing press
• Johannes Gutenberg (1440)
Scientific Revolution

period of enlightenment
when the developments in
the fields of mathematics,
physics, astronomy, biology,
and chemistry transformed
the views of society about
nature
Scientific Revolution

• very significant in the

development of human beings,
transformation of the society, and
in the formulation of scientific
ideas
• the creation of new research
fields in science
Influences to Scientific Revolution
 Curiosity

Creativity Scientific ideas,

Scientists discoveries,
technology

Critical Thinking

Scientific Revolution Variables that Influence the Development of Science Ideas, Science
Discoveries, and Technology
Fields of Science and
Technology
 Life Sciences

Biotechnology

Engineering

Fields of Agriculture and Aquaculture

Science and
Metal Industry
Technology
Food and Nutrition

Health

Social sciences
Fields of
Science and
Technology
Life Sciences
Fields of
Science and
Technology
Biotechnology
Fields of
Science and
Technology
Engineering
 Agriculture and aquaculture

Fields of Science
and Technology
Fields of Science
and Technology
Food and Nutrition
Fields of Science and Technology
Social Sciences
Brief Historical
Background of • Before the colonization of Spaniards
Science and • During the Colonization of Spaniards
• During the Colonization of Americans
Technology in
the Philippines
Before the colonization
of Spaniards
• own belief system and indigenous
knowledge system that keeps them
organized and sustained their lives and
communities
• developed tools for planting, hunting,
cooking and fishing
• Scientific knowledge is observed in many
ways like:
• planting their crops that provide them food
• taking care of animals to help them in their
daily tasks and for food production
During the
Colonization of
Spaniards
• established schools for boys and girls;
• the beginning of formal science and
technology;
• learning science in school focuses on
understanding different concepts
related to the human body, plants,
animals and heavenly bodies;
• medicine and advanced science were
introduced in formal colleges and
universities
During the Colonization
of Americans
• establishment of public education system
• improvement of engineering works and health
conditions of the people
• establishment of a modern research university,
the University of the Philippines
• building more public hospitals; and
• improvement of transportation and
communication systems
• Science education during the colonization of
Americans focuses on the nature studies and
sanitation.
• There were also researches conducted to
control malaria, cholera and tuberculosis and
other diseases.
Supplemental Videos

You can view the following video clips on the evolution of

technology:

• Past and Present | Technology Then and Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DENG7Q7VRgo

• How Technology Has Increased Human Development

| World101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzAb_GKjoSI

• Ten (10) Ways the Internet Has Changed Our Lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-ABeWFx5hI
QUESTIONS?