Science education in radiology: Platos´s Cave becoming in art by mean of imagination. DOI: 10.37785/nw.v3n1.a2

Abstract

The main aim of our research group on epistemology of imagination –a theoretical proposal of the first author of this article–, is to change the educational process in veterinary medicine from the role of imagination in science teaching. The framework of our proposal for the construction of representative actions involves the imagination of actions based on geometric thinking in the framework of the system of X, Y and Z axes. With this approach, the representative actions, to which we refer as representing-actions, are based on imaginary actions, which we give the name of imagine-actions. From our epistemological point of view, Plato's Cave, in which people look at the shadows of men and animals projected on a wall, is taken beyond the allegory, posing it as the materialization of the imagination expressed as art.