Latest ArticlesPopular science education is a kind of public welfare and social popular science activities, meaningful for the national quality enhancement. Popular science education in Zoo and Botanical gardens have an important role in science popularization. The paper uses literature analysis, and finds out current situation and problems of popular science education in Zoo and Botanical gardens.
This paper study on the implementation of research project in EU Framework Programme, in order to find out the public participation policy during the implementation and summarize its characteristics, hoping to have some inspiration to the improvement of public participate in science in our country.
The issue of China world geoparks, featured by multiple functions in terms of geoheritage protection, geosciences popularization, and economic development, have been the focus of government policy-makers, global geologists and visitors for ages. Despite their promising traits, many issues concerning the unique geosciences popularization have not been fully addressed due to the lacking of effective management system and reasonable science education pattern. In this study, we have investigated the geosciences popularization in 27 world geoparks in China to framework their geoscicence popularization types. As a result, four types of world geoparks were outlined including economy-driven (G1), economy-oriented (G2), Economy-protection-popularization balanced (G3), and popularization-protection (G4), providing a significant basis for promoting geopark science popularization construction.
The concepts of public scientific literacy and scientists' media literacy are intimated and inseparable in the context of dialog model in science communication. To achieve the efficient dialog between the public and science, not only improving public scientific literacy needed to be concerned, but also should we focus on the improvement of scientists' media literacy. In recent years, there are a lot of programs being carried out in UK, which are designed to improve the media literacy of scientists and to promote the dialogue between scientists and media, the public. Firstly, the meaning of the scientists' media literacy is discussed in this paper. Then through the analysis of the programs to improve scientists’ media literacy in Britain, some good enlightenment can be obtained for similar programs in China.
A survey of many representative nature reserves, geological parks, zoo and botanical gardens in United States and Taiwan were made. The results show that, the index of beneficiaries of most nature reserves were less than 1 per hectare per year, and education in most of nature reserves were few. Due to these problems, most of nature reserves actudly did not take up the task of science education. In response to this issue, different countermeasures were put forward, including increase the capacity of science popularization, constructing the visitors' centers, publishing propaganda readings, setting up science websites, and the volunteer team. Nature Reserves not only protect the rich biodiversity, should also play its role of science education to promote the ecological civilization.
In this article, the science communication talents cultivation goals and curriculum settings in high education institutions are studied and compared between Japan and China. The study framework is composed of “why we communicate”, “what to communicate” and “how to communicate”. Compared to Japan, science communication educational goals in China are not well focused, there is lacking of systematical approach towards curriculum development about “how to communicate”. Although the majority of curriculum settings are primarily on the theoretical aspect, there is no corresponding in depth curriculum about “why we communicate” and “what to communicate”. All of these reflect insufficient knowledge and study about science communication among education community, science and technology community and the media.
General conditions of American museums are introduced at first in this paper. Five typical museums of natural science are compared in terms of the Amount of Museums, the Average Amount of Visitors, Financial Resources, the Function of Museums, etc. The significance and enlightenment are given to the development of museums of natural science in China.
The civic scientific literacy construction relies on the science popularization professional team construction. The development of science popularization requires support from human resources. This paper analyzes the needs of science popularization professionals, try to use the Systems Theory to design an science popularization professionals training system.
By investigating on the characteristics and modes of the current operation in Science and Technology Museums (STMs), and taking into consideration the positive and negative effects and the potential risks of making the museums free to the public, management strategies are proposed for opening STMs free of charge. First of all, based on our survey on the main reasons why people don't like visiting the museums and the effects of the free of charge policy on the museums, it is proposed that STMs should be imprudent in making them free to the public. Based on the characteristics of the STMs, the potential visitor groups and their localities, the STMs should be classified and adopt different policies. The government should play its role in regulating the STMs, help the STMs improve their own capability-building, and create an environment conducive to their overall development in terms of the museum faculty, infrastructure, service, operations and management, so the STMs could get ready to open to the general public free of charge.
According to the hot issues of science communication on air quality triggered by PM2.5 at the end of 2011, focus group is adapted to research the interviewees' selection bias and the reasons on providing variety of materials and taking the media controversy questions as focuses of the discussion, for analyzing the awareness and communicating effect of mass media's publicity and influencing factors. The communication effect is influenced by the factors of disciplinary backgrounds, education, habits and forms of access to media, credibility of information source and opinion leader, environmental awareness and environment. Based on research results, we give some suggestions on science popularization in the scientific mode of transmission, the use of opinion leaders and the forms of propagation.
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