The Trouble of Cultural Values in Science Education: Towards the Construction of the European Model of Science in Society. Communication presented as co-author ¬at the XIV IOSTE Symposium: “Socio-cultural and Human Values in Science and Technology Education”.

2. Introduction Lack of interest and negative attitudes toward science and technology amongst the youth. A decline in the number of students signing up for doctorate programs in science. A decline in the number of students choosing to study science Future of science in Europe => Lisbon 2019 Osborne, J., & Dillon, J. (2008). Science Education in Europe: Critical reflections . London: The Nuffield Foundation.

7. Interesting results from Rose Project T he more developed a country is, the smaller the interest its youth had in S&T.

8. Interesting results from Rose Project Not so evident relationships!! Why do boys from developed countries, like the other boys and girls from developing countries, think that science and technology can solve all of the environmental problems, and that the solution is to be left to the experts; while the girls of those same developed countries, along with Japanese boys and girls, appear to be more skeptical and critical in the face of the role of science?

13. Looking from different coordinates Introducing culture, multiculturalism, interculturalism or pluriculturalism when describing present societies we make the mistake of understanding them as homogeneous, unified, holistic and self-coherent groups, that have no interior conflict, where the strength of tradition submits particular identities. In current science education research, are we falling into making the same errors that social sciences have evidenced in the past?