Latest ArticlesA comprehensive training of young people should be completed in schools, families and society. This is the extensive education concept which is a breakthrough in time and space boundaries of educational resources. Therefore, in the cultivation of scientific literacy of the youth, after-school science education also plays a role as important as intramural science education. In implementing the Outline of Scientific Literacy and based on the extensive education concept, Suzhou Association for Science and Technology established cooperation mechanism in working with local government departments and social institutions, providing more extensive and efficient social resources to improve the youth scientific literacy.
British Science Festival, sponsored by the BAAS, is the United Kingdom and Europe's largest science festival. Its evaluation strategy is the most professional. BAAS attaches great importance to the effect evaluation, and conducts a comprehensive evaluation from a variety of angles, by using a variety of methods, in line with its pre-established goals of the extent of the effect of the British Science Festival. This article analyzes the pattern of British Science Festival Summative Evaluation and its inadequate points, and then puts forward some advices for the summative evaluation of the important science popularization activities in China, such as Science and Technology Week, Science Popularization Day.
As an important establishment of popular science education, science and technology museum now faces the challenge of making exploitation of its resources in its operation in order to innovate system and mechanism, create a modern efficient management pattern full of vigor, achieve scientific and sustainable development. Taking Guangxi Science & Technology Museum as an example, this article discusses on the functional orientation, financial guarantee, operating mode, marketing strategy, resource integration, cooperation and exchange of the museum and puts forward some innovative recommendations.
The Outline of the National Scheme for Scientific Literacy (2006-2010-2020) clearly proposed further development of science popularization-culture industry. Having adopted an angle from the relation between science popularization and culture as well as culture industry, this paper analyzes the Culture and Related Industry Classification to illustrate the reasonable basis of science popularization-culture industry research, then tries to establish the four-quadrant dynamic model of science popularization-culture industry to clarify its research domain.
Science and technology museum is the important window of showing a nation's science and technology, culture and social development. It is also the symbol of economical, scientific and technical, social and the comprehensive national strength. In order to absorb advanced experience of overseas science and technology museum in construction and development, and to promote the healthy development of China's science and technology museums, this article sums up the developing characteristics of overseas science and technology museums on the basis of analyzing the situation of these museums, which can be observed by us as the model of science and technology museum construction and development.
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