Latest ArticlesBased on empirical rinvestigation of Shanghai Universities, free of charge policy of science Museums of College and Universities, has made some achievement, The college and University science museums create their own high-quality science resources, and can play a more important role to improve the public scientific literacy.
Nowadays, the new rural science popularization self-organization is of greater importance and has developed increasingly. Generally speaking, there exist four modes in the rural minority areas: “Branch + Association + Role model + Farmers”, “Company + Base + Farmers + Association”, “Pioneers + Association + Base + Farmers” and “Party Members + Base + Farmers”. They aim to achieve prosperity and benefit the farmers. In the future, the self-organization in the rural minority areas, will have both institutional capital self-organization and social capital self-organization and sees a diversified development trend.
Museums have an important role in sience, science and technology museums in college and universities also contribute to science education. Recently, science and technology museums in colleges and universities have been developing rapidly but their function on science education is still very limited. Problems including government deficiencies on management, their poor motivate on science education; their poor social service awareness and ability; their limited communications; the deficient utilization of human resources. To improve their science function, the external environment for their development should be optimized. Universities should attach importance to science and technology museums in colleges and their function. Universities also should stimulate enthusiasm of staff and student volunteers. Also the university digital museums should be established.
It is important to improve women's scientific literacy. This paper ananlyzes the current status of women's participation in science popularization based on the survey done in the village of Wei Xian, Hebei Province. It discusses some existing problems and puts forward some suggestions.
Science museums affiliated to enterprise (SMAE) is an important part of the public cultural service system in China. It is a new place of popularization of science and technology (PST). SMAE is the result of enterprises community responsibility. Some suggestions are put forward in this paper to the development of SAME according to main problems and discussion.
Youth and Science was the popular Scientific Journal founded in Chongqing during the period of Anti-Japanese War, to promote scientific research and popularization of scientific knowledge. Youth and Science had introduced and disseminated basic knowledge and new inventions and new discoveries of science and technology and scientific characters, simultaneously published science review to guide public opinion. Its dissemination content was mainly around the military and war of resistance against Japan war and adapted to the requirements of the times, with the characteristics of practicality and accessibility. The combination of popular and scientific was its writing characteristics. Most of the articles was written by experts and scholars, which had the rigor and authority. The way of communication paid attention to the interact with readers. Although Youth and science had not a long history, but had made a positive contribution on spreading the knowledge of science and technology, and popularizing scientific knowledge and arousing people's awareness of saving the country through science during the Anti-Japanese War period.
In this article we firstly try to define the concept of Science and Technology Museums affiliated to Research Institutes in China, and give a list of them with some information about their affiliations, subjects, service time and ticket. Secondly, we try to describe the ticket policies of their counterparts in England and US. Based on our analysis above, we conclude that the government should carry on free tickets policy for this kind of museums step by step.(1) Some museums which have been accredited would be free to the public with the fund from the central government.(2) The museums which are already free and have affluent potential resources of popular science should be funded to attract more people.(3) The government should encourage the tourist interest sites such as botanical gardens, zoos, geoparks, natural protected areas with some financial support to add popular science service which visitors can learn more during their tours.
With the rapid development of web 2.0 technology, the mass collaboration of website users has been stirred up and further contributed to solving complicated and emergency problems. The conventional closed organization has been since changed. The thesis attempts to give analysis on the four factors impacting the knowledge network evolution of mass collaboration, including task granularity and collaborative website platform, and meanwhile study the knowledge network evolution process of the selforganized initiative knowledge nodes which are based on inanimate agent nodes as major monitoring nodes. Moreover, this thesis, taking www.oursus.org as an example, analyzes the setting of task granularity, establishment of the global city information network, introduction of experts, interaction and sharing of knowledge, as well as forming of the social network system.
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