Latest ArticlesIn Taiwan, community college is a unique adult education design. It was proposed by Professor Huang Wu-hsiung, a social activist, in 1997. Next year, Huang's proposal got the support of Taipei City Government to set up the first community college in Wenshan District: Wenshan Community College. From then on, other districts of Taipei as well as other cities and counties in Taiwan set up community colleges subsequently, and there are 83 community colleges in Taiwan now. Community college courses can be divided into three categories-academic courses, life and skill, community groups. And the academic courses then can be divided into three categories: the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The natural science courses in Community College may be considered as a part of science popularization. Taking Wenshan Community College's natural science course as an example, we give a brief introduction of its curriculum, faculty and students. We hope our experience may afford mainland China's adult education and science popularization some reference.
This paper consists of a content analysis of Chinese and British newspaper coverage of measles/MMR vaccination in a five-year period 2006-2010. By comparing China with a western country and discussing a better function for scientific reporting and scientists' involvement in public communication, it aims to expand the research vision of science communication in China as well as making a modest contribution to the globalization of research on vaccine controversies.
This paper firstly introduces the mechanism concerning the interaction between basic research and science communication as well as some typical practices conducted by these countries which prioritize the development of science and technology, in which science popularization and science research are combined perfectly. More importantly, this paper analyzes and does an in-depth research into the current state regarding the interaction between basic research and science popularization, and simultaneously makes a comparison between the two models both at home and abroad. Last but not the least, the paper comes up with some valuable proposals and suggestions in terms of how to make efforts to strengthen the interaction between basic research and science communication. It is believed that this paper will present some ideas of great significance with regard to strengthening the combination and linkage between science research and science communication of the basic research field as well as promoting the development of science communication in China.
Over the development of the past 25 years, Natural Science Funds of China (NSFC) has now become an important part of national knowledge innovation system, and has provided a strong protection for our country to catch up with and surpass the advanced world levels in basic science fields. Now, the NSFC has been a vital pillar for the sustainable development of social and science enterprise in China. Through the continuous exploration and practice, NSFC has accumulated rich experiences in the management of science funds, and has formed a management system of Chinese characteristic. Meanwhile, through the subsidization of NSFC, the project forms a huge scientific information database of scientific achievements, talented and platforms, etc, by the process of project application to project finished. The science communication of NSFC should start at the information needs of government agencies, scientists group and the public towards NSFC and aim at creating an effective information communication system by using modern science communication methods and different media. It uses sci-tech news reports as the main body using modern communication language, together with other communication means, to inform the general public about the NSFC so as to build a social environment for technological innovation and accelerate the development of social and science enterprise in China. At the same time, it also provides an opportunity for the government, science and engineering and the general public to know more about the NSFC and then to push it to a better future. The communication of NSFC's performance should be launched on the principles of objectivity, authenticity, timeliness, confidentiality and risk avoiding. It also puts forward that the communication should target the needs of audience, integration of communication channels, and timing of communication. It stresses the combination of the internal communication and the external communication. We should give full play to the mix of mainstream media and the sci-tech mainstream media.
The presentation will report on the science communication policy implemented by the European Union (EU) in research projects and on science communication activities developed in the international ITER project in which China, EU, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and United States are participating.
Science and technology is the primary productivity, science popularization is a huge motivation behind economic development and social progress, it is observed that the better the science popularization is conducted, the more well-developed the economy and society will remain, and inevitably, the happier the people there will feel. We should do our utmost to vigorously strengthen the efforts made into science popularization, advocate scientific concept, uphold scientific spirit, and add some cultural elements to scientific connotation during the massive development and prosperity of culture with a view to avoiding the formation and dissemination of such sort of culture which will be detrimental and pose negative effects to the society, contributing to the healthy development of culture. Science popularization whose importance is universally-known is a social undertaking involving the efforts of people from all walks of life, however, to have it implemented well in practice is not an easy job, therefore, from that sense, a large number of effective measures should be taken to motivate the scientists to engage this activity.
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