A Preliminary Study on Placeness as a Site of Experience and Relationship in Science Education

Abstract

The ecological and climate crises that have been talked about in recent years make us reconsider the responsibilities of science and technology and social and ethical practices. This study seeks to find the reason why socio-scientific issues (SSI), including the climate crisis, are limited to epistemological discussions in our society despite their seriousness, in the absence of ‘placeness’. A place is a place where people’s specific stories unfold beyond the physical limitations of their lives. In other words, it is a ‘layered locality’ in which an individual constantly establishes daily relationships with other neighbors (objects, animals, plants, and individuals). Therefore, this study suggests: First, we must understand the activities of science and technology based on the ‘sense of place’ in which humans on Earth interact with objects and living things around them. Second, locality and everydayness must be restored in scientific and technological responsibility and social and ethical practice.