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Nos últimos anos, no Brasil, pode-se perceber o crescimento da oferta de ensino técnico de nível médio, principalmente nos Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia, que vem passando por um período de expansão.  Dentro deste contexto no presente trabalho objetivou-se levantar e compreender as atitudes e crenças CTS de duas amostras de estudantes do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte. Essa amostra era composta por estudantes que fazem seu ensino médio concomitante com a educação profissional, e por outro grupo que já possui a escolaridade básica e cursa no instituto apenas o curso na modalidade subsequente. Para este estudo foram utilizados uma escala de likert e um questionário aberto. Os resultados demonstram que predomina entre ambos os grupos de estudantes pesquisados uma visão positivista com clara percepção de concordância com o mito salvacionista sobre a interação de C&T com a sociedade

Translational nanomedicine is promoted as an emerging biomedical field, capable of opening a therapeutic scenario where treatments will become personalised and individuals will take an increasingly active role in the control of their daily well-being. In this sense, the standard view of nanomedicine, supported by the biomedical community, seems characterised by a "future-oriented debate" that is to be understood as the complex "outcome" of scientific narrations arising from the potential application of nanotechnology in the context of patient care.

In this domain laden with hopes for biomedical sciences, the ongoing dialogue between nanotechnology and biotechnology is a topic of undoubted importance for Science and Technology Studies. In the last decade, plenty of contributions shed light on how "forward-looking statements" on scientific and technological progress may be regarded as rhetorical devices capable of attracting the attention of relevant stakeholders, together with a number of financial, regulatory and symbolic resources for the establishment of new biomedical technologies.

Starting from these theoretical suggestions and based on the data collected during an ethnographic research that was carried-out in a laboratory of nanomedicine based in Northern Italy, this paper explores the relationship between scientific "forward-looking statements" and the situated practices of biomedical research in nanomedicine. In doing so I develop the concept of promissory bio-object as a concept of better understanding the engagement of anticipatory knowledge in biomedical research with a specific emerging biomedical device called "triangle DNA origami".

Since the early 1990s ‘Dutch Design’ has become increasingly visible in the international design field. Publications that attempt to explain its essence appeal to the idea that Dutch Design artefacts are somehow ‘typically Dutch’, where ‘Dutchness’ is explained as a mix of recurring factors: conceptualism, Calvinism, the artificially constructed and densely populated Dutch landscape, the Polder Model, social responsibility, entrepreneurship, and a shortage of natural materials and industries, among others. However, the problem with such narratives is that they participate in the construction of an idealized Dutch cultural identity and its material production rather than analytically describing their constructions. Perhaps this explains why these reiterations never seem able to settle the controversy once and for all so that the quest for the essence of Dutch Design continues until today. The purpose of this paper can be stated quite simply: it too will look for the essence of Dutch Design. But it will do so wisely advised by Bruno Latour who argues that “an essence does not lie in a definition but in a practice, a situated, material practice that ties a whole range of heterogeneous phenomena in a certain specific way.” Thus, rather than asking what Dutch Design is, this essay asks: how is it practiced? The hypothesis is that the essence of Dutch Design can be found not in abstract definitions of Dutchness but in situated material practices. As a case study this paper pragmatically traces the discursive and material construction of Autarchy (2010), a design project by studio Formafantasma, into an icon of Dutch Design [Figs. 1-4]. To do so, it employs Albena Yaneva’s adaptation of Bruno Latour’s ‘Actor-Network-Theory’ (ANT) to the study of design as a vector between studio practices and broader social and material networks. This framework allows this paper to abstain from generalizations and stereotypes of Dutch culture and identity and instead to provide a detailed description of Autarchy as a “star-like connecting site,” as a local place that idiosyncratically ties together a host of heterogeneous elements between the studio, the home, the media and the market. As such, this paper offers an original contribution to the study of design as a situated material practice at the intersection of so-called ‘micro’ analyses and ‘macro’ frameworks.

The aims of this study were to: (i) design and implement strategies aiming to promote student questioning in the study of photosynthesis, and (ii) identify the strategies that lead to the formulation of a higher number of high level cognitive questions. A qualitative approach was adopted involving participant observation and collection of students’ written questions. Science-Technology-Society (STS) and practical strategies were conceived and implemented in a 10th grade Biology class. The results show that the students asked mainly low level cognitive questions. The greatest number of questions was raised when the STS strategy was implemented. However, the practical activity originated the greatest number of higher cognitive level questions.

本書是《科技 社會 人》台灣科技與社會研究（STS）案例集第二集，出版初衷是將STS異質觀點引入大專教學中，嘗試在專業分化以及隨之而來的「跨界」努力之外，培養學子直接面對世界的思考能力。全書共收錄20篇案例，牽涉主題多元，從居家技術物到大型科技系統，從工程師的思維到使用者的觀點，從科技知識到情感療癒，從產業、政策規劃到科技治理等，頗能補充國內近年新研究案例。藉由這些產生自具體案例的解答與疑難，本書邀請讀者追問一些更普遍的問題，包括科技創新與使用的關係、科技的內嵌政治、科技系統的風險內涵、富情感的科技如何可能、科技與民主等議題。

"Faculty of Humanities Nicolas Copernicus University (Toruń, Poland) on 17th-19th September 2014 organizes international conference of European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) titled ‘Situating Solidarities: social challenges for science and technology studies’.

We would like to pass the information about this conference, with the details of its merits, calls for tracks, papers and other dead-lines which can be found at: www.easst.umk.pl

About the conference:

The EASST conference 2014 addresses the dynamics and interrelationships between science, technology and society. Contributors are invited to address the meeting’s theme of ‘Situating Solidarities’ though papers on any topic relevant to the wider field are also welcome.

The theme of ‚situating solidarities’ addresses asymmetries of power through a focus on material, situated sociotechnical configurations. Heterogeneous networks of actors are stabilised to different degrees through complex negotiations. Rather than seeking universal abstractions the theme asks questions such as: What do the chains and networks of asymmetries look like? How do they travel? What do they carry? Do asymmetries translate to inequalities? What are the solidarities that shape the practices, artifacts and ‚know-hows’ in situated material contexts?

Political and ethical engagement is a central concern for a view of science as changes in collective practice, rather than as individual contemplation. How should STS observe or influence the raising and erasing of social and technical asymmetries in everyday life? What do the ‚situated solidarities’ of dealing with asymmetries and inequalities look like? Can STS contribute to the work of solidarising to connect asymmetric agents, places, moves and networks to weaken inequalities and change hegemonic relations?"

Megaproject Planning and Management: Essential Readings contains the seminal articles from the growing body of research on megaproject planning and management along with an original introduction by the editor, Bent Flyvbjerg. The leading and most cited authority in the field, Flyvbjerg has used crowdsourcing and 25 years of experience to cherry-pick from several hundred articles and books the writings that define the field. This volume will be an indispensable source for those wishing to speak with authority about how megaprojects are prepared, delivered, and fought over. The target audience is students, academics, practitioners, and media pundits alike, as well as communities affected by megaprojects.