Scientific culture versus human sciences, is CTS a bridge between the two of them?

Abstract

This article is the result of several investigations in the course of my activities in the science-technology area. The key question to start the debate is: What is really a cts? A new field of study? A new epistemological approach or the rescue of the humanism in the diffusion of scientific culture?
Could it be that, against to what we think of cts education, we make academic that matter and in a similar manner to conventional science we distance ourselves from the educational role? This aspect worries me mainly in relation to secondary education, which is the space and time for youth personality formation, but that however still faces several difficulties in the formation of human values. Based on this premise and new readings I found among my concerns and the ones of Erich Fromm several similarities that allow me a greater understanding of the dissociation between scientific and humanistic cultures. In addition to Fromm, other important authors serve as support in these reflections: Ellul, Mumford, Ortega y Gasset –and more recently, Barber, Diamond, De Masi, Herman o Klein amongst others. In my analysis it’s clear that teaching isolated during secondary education in the scientific culture and the human sciences contribute a little to the development of the complete human being. And the cts –as conceived today– may indeed be the bridge between these two cultures.