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2007 Volume 2 Issue 5  Published: 2007-10-10
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  • Guoping ZENG , Honglin LI

    Based on review of current situation of public scientific literacy in China and international comparative studies, the paper puts forward the concept of "living science" and analyses the main characteristics of it: tightly connected with basic living demand; puts instrumental and practical result in the priority; gives importance to sensibility and perception; integrated with social knowledge; has inherent connection with cultural tradition deposition. If we can say that science is the refinement of everyday experience and thinking, then it's an essential way for public understanding of science to approach scholarly "academic science" from "living science" which emphasizes particularly on common sense. Moreover, it gives us an important imply: We need the "academic science" (R. K. Merton, UCDOS) together with "post-academic science" (J. Ziman, PLACE) as well as "living science" (BISSC) to conduct the public understanding and using of science roundly.

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  • Yizhong ZHANG , Shukun TANG

    In the course of constructing the scientific literacy of citizens, the complexity and fundamentality of the Interest can hardly work without the law guarantee system. The development of the socialist market economy, the implementation of the strategy of Sustainable Development and "Developing the Country Through Science and Education" and the basic strategy of "Governing the Country by Law" have advanced the establishment and perfection of the socialist market economic law system. This system includes the legal system about constructing the scientific literacy of citizens and it has been initially established. Consequently, the law guarantee system of constructing the scientific literacy of citizens has begun to take shape.

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  • Songsheng GAO

    Based on the analysis of the general situation of the city proper science popularization in China, the organization forms of communities and the behavior inclinations of community members, the thesis carries out the study of the current dominant mode of China's city proper science popularization-the "science popularization community". The thesis elaborates with examples the purpose and significance of establishing the "science popularization community", the organization form, the implementation course, the establishment mode and the evaluation system of the "science popularization community". It researches and explores the actual and positive effects of the "science popularization community" in establishing a mechanism that motivates the extensive social participation, forming the cohesive force of the community science popularization, disseminating science, realizing the widespread and beneficial distribution of elementary knowledge and resources, and improving the public scientific literacy.

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  • Guiying MA

    The paper analyzes the status and forming causes of the marginal groups in science popularization such as the floating population, women, the handicapped, countrymen and the poor, and indicates that low science literacy and poor condition of acquired knowledge of the marginal groups in science popularization exposes a serious justice problem in science popularization, and that the government and society lack or have difficulty in realizing the impartiality in science popularization in three aspects, that is the policy in science popularization and the focus of country's attention, the distribution of the resources in science popularization, and the specific practice and actual effects in science popularization. Finally, the text puts forward four pieces of advice to achieve impartiality in science popularization.

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  • Ping JIN , Shucai LI

    Along with the socio-economic development, ecological problems have become increasingly highlighted. To solve this problem, to popularize the ecological values is particularly necessary. Currently, the work of popularizing of science in our country also needs to take a new road to incorporate the difficulty theory of ecological values into the popularization of science, which will be an innovation both in the advocating of ecological values and in the work of popularizing science. This paper began an exploratory research, only for the peer experts and scholars to discuss.

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  • Lin YIN , Pingdan ZHANG

    The development and share of science popularization resources is one of the key of science popularization in our country. Therefore how to characterize science popularization resources is a question that needs to be resolved as soon as possible. From the perspective of science of resources and the connotation of science popularization, this paper aims to give a comprehensive and scientific definition of science popularization resources and provide references for science popularization research and practices.

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  • Min QI , Yuliang WANG , Huiqin XU

    Depending on the analysis of actual conditions of science popularization evaluation in china and the necessity of explaining enterprise science popularization resource evaluation, we discussed some key elements in this paper. The innovative conception that verification and modification will be all-important about designing the index system were put forward by means of the aggregation and comparison of the different hiberarchy and factors in some different index systems of science popularization effect evaluation.

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  • Zhifeng XU

    The Undergraduates of China was not included in the important colony's queue of Outline of National Action Scheme of Scientific Literacy for All Chinese Citizens. This phenomenon shows that the related departments don't recognize enough the function of "the undergraduates' colony", who can improve the standard of science literacy of whole Chinese. The theoretical and practical researches on the science literacy of undergraduates lack firm foundation of scientific view. The system and content of science education are still very disordered. We should strengthen comprehensive science education for the current undergraduates against the traditional education methods, the disadvantage of which is emphasizing too much on specialized subject but overlooking comprehensive ability. Such method is named as "high-level science popularization". By studying the mature science literacy theories and advanced experiences of other countries, and summarizing our country's cultural literacy education practice in these years, we establish reasonable undergraduates' science-literacy evaluation system and comprehensive science-literacy training system.

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  • Zhenke ZHANG , Haitao TIAN , Guihong WEI

    Based on the investigation of the Science Popularization Websites (SPWs) in China, which was hold in the early 2005, 233 SPWs were collected. There were six types of SPWs. The comprehensive SPWs located mainly in Beijing. The professional SPWs were mainly distributed in Beijing and Shanghai. The top two Local SPWs were from Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces. The other types of SPWs located mainly in Beijing. The general distribution of most SPWs in China has the character of "one center (Beijing) and one belt (coastal zone)" and "decline along the inland regions". SPWs in were related to many disciplines and played an important role in the improvement of public science awareness and knowledge. There were some problems with the SPWs in China, such as simple contents, poor display forms, and lack of two-ways flow of messages. In the future, SPWs in China should be carried out under the rational plan on the national scope and strengthen the popularization of scientific spirits, methods and thinkings.

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  • Yang MO , Shaosha YANG

    Science literacy is an important part of public literacy, and increasing the minors' interests on science and their creative abilities is a keystone for the work of science popularization. As we know, children like cartoons very much, so it is a much more effectively way to enlighten them to be interested in science. At the same time, animation industry can bring on the fast economic improvement.

  • Essay
  • Jie XU

    Observation is one of the most fundamental and important scientific inquiry skills. This paper describes the following ways to improve primary scholar's observation ability in teaching. 1. inspire the desire of observation; 2. define the purpose of observation; 3. teach students observation methods; 4. teach students in field observation; 5. modify results in cooperation; 6. learn the preliminary processing of observation results; 7. train students for the improvement of their attitude towards science.

  • History of Science Popularization
  • Xi CHEN

    Beijing Planetarium is the first large-scale venue for popular science activities in new China, which was founded on September 29, 1957. On the eve of its 50 anniversary, with the interview of Mr. Li Yuan, who was in charge of the construction of the Planetarium, this article elaborates the detailed history of its construction.

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  • David MORRISON