Latest ArticlesScience popularization in universities is an important component of the entire Chinese science popularization enterprise, which is not only a requirement in era of science, but also the strategic issue regarding the promotion of national scientific and cultural quality, and the enhancement of the nation's comprehensive strength and international competitiveness. Based on the theoretical and practical study of science popularization in universities, this article systematically discusses how to make science popularization more attractive in universities, and how to inject the social function of science into science popularization innovation career. Reflections on development of science popularization are also proposed.
This paper provides an overview of human resources and education resources in central region of China. It analyses the basic characteristics and the existing problems of college science popularization talent cultivation, and offers a proposal for solving these problems through investigation into the Issue.
Science museums in advanced countries generally have a set of comprehensive operation mechanism to ensure their survival and development. With respect to money-collecting, the primary funding channels are government funds, social financing and outsourcing donation. For evaluation system, normative authentication and diversified assessments play a key role to promote the performance of the museums. This article analyses the successful practices of science museums in this regard and reveals some feasible implications to their Chinese counterparts on the basis of comparison.
Museums, memorial museums and National Educational Bases for Patriotism have gradually opened to the public free of charge. The opening of science & technology museum to the public free of charge is a matter of time only. This paper deals with issues such as why science & technology museum should open to the public free of charge, how to run such a museum, and how to make room for greater development in the process of opening.
It is a trend to make use of public space to put up exhibits and educate visitors in the Sci-Tech museum circle. This article discusses the definition and function of the public space in such places and summarizes ways in working out exhibition plot and content suitable for the space by making references to domestic and overseas examples. The public space is the space where communication happen between people and environment as well as among individuals. The plot determines the meaning of the communication. Working out the plot is the main task of science & technology museum for its use of the public space. It contains five elements, which are the meaningful subject, the telling way of the subject, the exhibits which could express the subject, the scene serving as a foil, and the changing sequence of the plot. The article also summarizes the basic thoughts and design principles of public space.
With the development of science and technology, more advanced science education is required. It becomes the most important issue to promote scientific literacy of the public, especially the minor children. As places for science popularization, science & technology museums should develop educational activities for minor children. The authors have summarized experience of education activities of science & technology museums in developed countries and put forward some suggests for developing activities typical of interest, interaction and novety while taking into consideration of the age, curriculum and life experience of the minor visitors. Furthermore, some forms are showed in the article, for example, activities based on inquiry and experiencing, exhibits of longer time involvement, science shows, and so on.
This paper reviews the history of Astro Boy which is a classic piece of science popularization culture. By focusing on the effects of both industrialization and society culture, it looks into the reasons why this product could be so successful. In consequence, the paper presents its rethinking of the integration of science popularization and the culture industry.
At present mass media is developed, animated cartoon is one major channel for children to know the world, watching animated cartoons selectively have been a part of home education. Fore and after the school age is the best time to develop the creativity, this paper helps parents to select the wholesome cartoons through taking one classical cartoon as example, in this way, children's multiple character will be optimized, observation ability and imagination ability could be cultured, curiosity will be kept, and children can seek the answers independently. At last, children's creativity latent will be exploited adequately in the pleasure.
The formation of scientific literacy is a long-term process. Science education at early stage serves as a decisive factor affecting the formation of scientific literacy of a person. And the experimental teaching in science classes is more conducive to the formation of primary school students' minds in understanding the scientific methods and shaping scientific views of nature, and will enrich their childhood life, develop their personality, and stimulate their creative potential of great significance. Therefore, science class, which help primary school children build up their scientific literacy, should follow the laws of science to place experimental teaching in the correct position and it can not be its final goal to simply teach pupils knowledge with science class.
In combination with regional characteristics and by taking advantages of local science resources, Xinjiang Normal University has been carrying science popularization to teenagers for long. Xinjiang Children & Youth Science Center in Xinjiang Normal University was given the title in 2002 and evaluated to rank at the top among eleven such centers in Xinjiang in 2004. This paper explicates the experience and thoughts on institutional construction, resource integration, targets and contents of science education and practical approaches from Xinjiang Normal University. The aim is to provide some references of such work for other minority regions.
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