Latest ArticlesWorksheet is a self learning educational material that can enable teachers to guide students and parents. Exhibits are the main educational resources in science and technology museums. Science and technology museums design worksheet to make it become a learning tool. This paper relied on a research program me held by China Association for Science and Technology in 2010, and some thoughts are summarized.
The trainings of science museum professionals in the forms of advanced education and/or continuing education in developed countries represented by the United States of America and Japan are references and inspirations viewed from many aspects of their training system, mode and content. Vigorous development of classification museum study as well as the specialized segmentation of professional training should be applied; pedagogy of museum, communication of museum and exhibition planning and designing courses should be intensified; balance between theatrical and practical training of multidisciplinary talents should be valued in order to meet the true need of museum.
The work of Chinese Civic Scientific Literacy Survey should have a proper set of values and methodologies if it would continue. The monitoring and assessing of Chinese Civic Scientific Literacy Survey should be meaningful a helpful toward the practical work, constructing a working system for Chinese civic scientific literacy based upon with our own features, and dealing with the relationships between civic scientific literacy and science popularization, social practice and social responsibility.
The television is at present the main channel for citizens having access to scientific information. This paper focuses on the new approaches and the development process. The science TV programs should be strengthened more interaction and fun, so that the science knowledge, scientific methods and scientific ideas could be conveyed in a easy way.
The art of scientific fiction is a kind of visual texts based on scientific fiction, and the arts are also significant in science communication. This essay analyses the relations between the art of scientific fiction and science communication. It also tries to explore a new approach for the science communication through this unique view-visual culture.
At present, international competition is gradually reflected in the competition of the national innovation capacity, many countries have stepped up their national innovation policy system. Specifically, science communication and popularization has gradually become the focus of the policy guarantees in innovation policy system in developed countries. This essay studied on the science communication items and regulations of the national innovation policy system in UK. At the mean time, sector norms of some science foundations (RCUK) were anglicized in terms of regulations for application conditions, execution supervision, project assessment and research publication. The analysis covered policies set concept, the path selection and best practices of UK national innovation policy system. At last, considering China innovation policy context, major problems and relevant solutions in China innovation policy system were put forward.
Famous nature history museums all have long history, however, with the development of the society, public expecting museums not just cabinets full of specimen, they are inclined to have more deep interactions with those specimen. No matter the innovation for one area or for all, those famous museums indeed have already been on action. During this process, they have good command of the relationship between tradition and modern, generality and individuality, display and interaction, public and collection.
An efficient and systematic science popularization talents training system consists of multi-channel, multi-level, multi-type and wide-professional education structure networks. While only a sound and effective science personnel training system can guarantee the accumulation of science popularization talents resource, the increasing quantity of science popularization talents and the improvement of the average quality. This essay conducted the analysis on major bottle-neck problems of the construction of science popularization talents training system. Those major problems include subject discipline, faculty resource, training base and mechanism innovation. Consequently, several countermeasures for those problems were discussed and some solutions for construction of China science popularization talents training system were also given.
The first Beijing Science Carnival launched in September, 2011 has brought the author into the consideration on how the science popularization industry goes to the market. The most efficient way to allocate the science popularization resources is marketilization, and it is a social obligation to ask the enterprises to involve in the work of science popularization.