The interaction between citizenship education and scientific education in strengthening vaccine citizenship

A review of the literature on vaccine hesitancy and refusal in the 20th century

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https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2024.30.18931

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Socioscientific Questions, vaccine citizenship, citizenship education, scientific education, citizenship, socioscientific questions

Abstract

In recent years, the conjunction of far-right agendas with those of the anti-vax movement has spread disbelief in science and turned the reinforcement of individualism into a way to erode the social fabric. In this text, by means of a review of specialized literature, we propose to discuss the strengthening of vaccine citizenship, a phenomenon that involves not only the construction of citizenship but also trust in scientific knowledge. Two are the axes of our analysis: a) civic education to address vaccine hesitancy and refusal, and b) the importance of cooperation between Citizenship Education and Scientific Education for the development of critical thinking and the ability to assess the effects of scientific knowledge on society. To identify studies that have investigated the social nature of vaccination-related decisions and practices and those that have identified ways in which educational processes have been able to strengthen vaccine citizenship, we used bibliographic and documentary research as methodological strategies. As final recommendations, we suggest that the praxis involved in vaccine citizenship requires Citizenship Education for its realization to demand scientific literacy, just as Scientific Education requires scientific knowledge’s commitment to global citizenship so that it can be transformed into practice and action in the real world.

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Author Biographies

  • Ivy Judensnaider, Universidade Paulista, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

    É economista pela Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (1981), mestra pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2005) no Programa de Estudos Pós-graduados em História da Ciência e é doutoranda no Programa de Pós-graduação Multiunidades em Ensino de Ciências e Matemática. Atualmente é professora da Universidade Paulista nos cursos de Economia e Administração. Na mesma instituição coordenou o curso de Ciências Econômicas no Campi Marquês (SP) e no Campus Paulista (SP). É redatora de materiais didáticos de Filosofia para Ensino Médio do Colégio Objetivo. Também atua no setor de publicações, como Editora Adjunta da revista Prometeica.

  • Silvia Fernanda de Mendonça Figueirôa, PECIM - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
    Geologist from the University of São Paulo (1981), master's degree (1987) and
    doctorate (1992) in Social History from the University of São Paulo, both in the specialty
    of History of Sciences. She obtained her professorship in 2001 at the
    State University of Campinas and became a full professor in 2006.
    Her post-doctorate was at the Center Alexandre Koyré d'Histoire des Sciences et
    des Techniques (France, 2002). From 2014 onwards, she joined the Faculty of Education
    at UNICAMP. She has experience in the area of ​​History, with an
    emphasis on History of Sciences, as well as Teaching (Geo)Sciences and the theme
    of scientific archives, working mainly on the following themes:
    History of sciences and Geosciences, with an emphasis on Brazil;
    relationships between history of science and teaching;
    scientific/technological documentation. She works at undergraduate and postgraduate
    levels, guiding scientific initiation, master's and doctoral research,
    as well as supervising post-doctorates.

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Judensnaider, I., & de Mendonça Figueirôa, S. F. (2024). The interaction between citizenship education and scientific education in strengthening vaccine citizenship: A review of the literature on vaccine hesitancy and refusal in the 20th century. Prometeica - Journal of Philosophy and Science, 30, 144-160. https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2024.30.18931
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Published 2024-07-08