ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that if important fields within science education—such as health education and education for sustainable development—focus —trictly on the virtue of individual responsibility, they are at risk of contributing to the unmaking of citizens and democratic politics. Science education is therefore at risk of contributing to the undermining of citizenship and democracy. Expressed differently, the argument put forward is that if science education focuses only on the virtue of individual responsibility, then the political dimension of health and sustainable development is made invisible, which risks undermining the virtue of citizenship and democracy. The problem is even more critical when it comes to citizenship and democracy. A citizen is a person who is involved in society and who, at least to some degree, is interested in, and takes part in, politics and the governing of society.
