Social issues in nanoscience and nanotechnology master’s degrees: the socio-political stakes of curricular choices

摘要: This paper proposes a study of the various ways in which social and ethical issues are integrated curricula nanoscience nanotechnology master degrees. During last decade, new types courses have appeared science technology universities, first United States now reaching Europe France, associating call for interdisciplinarity with strong convergence industry integrating and/or human sciences scientific curricula. These entitled “science society”, meant students, lean on (and participate construction of) specific describing science, technology, world, generally saturated political values. The integration these education, linked effort to specify institutional organizations practice education (in particular through support emerging fields like nanoscience, synthetic biology, or cognitive sciences), may play an important role acculturation future scientists engineers “good” practices discourses. case is particularly revealing changes taking place some universities. will strive identify different called “nano examples from both French American contexts, linking them more less implicit socio-epistemic