Latest ArticlesThe 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.
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.
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 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.
On the basis of a literature review of the studies on the integration of science popularization enterprise and science popularization industry, the theory of public goods is used to analyze “why the integration of science popularization enterprise and science popularization industry is necessary and possible”, and to clarify the theoretical basis of the integration.
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.
CASTIC and APFS are two youth science and technology competitions of great importance in China. ISEF and STS are two important competitions in America. This paper makes a Sino-US comparative study of the screening mechanism. On the basis of the study, some suggestions have been put forward.(1) To simplify the assessment part of our competitions and improve the effectiveness of the overall quality assessment.(2) To refine evaluation criteria, extend assessment dimensions and set the dimensions' weights with the scientific method.(3) To expand the provincial assessor scope of CASTIC and share provincial assessors as soon as possible.(4) To strengthen the provincial assessor training to ensure the orderly and efficient conducting of assessment.
This paper reviews the history of media settings, and then puts forward the general and unique characteristics of the mass media. According to the network of new media in general and specifically, it analyzes the existing problems and countermeasures of popular science network, and explores the development trend of popular science network.
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.
In recent years, superstition and pseudoscience events have occurred again and again around us, and impacted on a wide range of society. One of the reasons of these things happening is the inadequate work of science popularization. Many great scientists with profound ideas valued the work of science popularization; they considered science popularization as part of the work of scientists. The author hopes scientists and scholars to dedicate themselves to the science popularization undertaking. So the popular culture of will be full of the scientific spirit, and thus very healthy.
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