Latest ArticlesThe PUS movement can not only meet the demands of the public of participating in democratic affairs through scientific activities, but also promote the development of knowledge economy based on science. To China, PUS is also a cultural movement which compensates the deficiency of Chinese traditional culture. Therefore, PUS is a comprehensive concept with rich connotations changing with the progress of science and technology, the status of China and the evolution of world civilization.
With the development of science and technology, the uncertainty of science and technology is becoming more and more obvious. How to understand the uncertainty of science and technology relates to the application of science and technology, development of economics and the security of society. School education and public media, by which the public acquire information of science and technology, play an important role in communicating the uncertainty of science and technology.
Based on the theory of monitoring and evaluation, this paper discussed the theory framework of M&E of the implementation of the National Scheme for Scientific Literacy (NSSL), which would support the practical M&E action of the work relating to Science Popularization.
The integration mechanism of Science Popularization and Culture Industry is studied in this paper. Based on the review of seven one-way or two-way reactions between Science Popularization and Culture Industry, the culture production of Science Popularization is analyzed and divided into three fields. In the end, two typical cases are illustrated.
There are more than 25 million undergraduate students in China in 2006. They are indispensable resource for science popularization cause. This paper analyzes the status of science popularization by the undergraduates: on the one hand, there's serious lack of science popularization practitioners; on the other hand, the ability of the undergraduates is overlooked. Actually, they are not only the audience of science popularization, but also the disseminators with knowledge and culture. Training students to communicate science should base on innovation scheme and social practice of undergraduates with the help of students' unions and associations.
The science inquisition is not only the goal of science study, but also the way of it. How to carry out the inquiry-based teaching? The main procedure includes: 1.manifeststhe science inquisition in the teaching design; 2.demonstrate the science inquisition in the classroom instruction; 3.after the class in the supplementary activity deepen the science inquisition.
This article analyzes the poor management of comprehensive periodicals on science popularization, focusing on revealing the reasons behind, and putting forward advices for fighting out of this plight.
Museums are increasingly accepted as a mainstream learning location. The major principle of exhibition design in a museum is to establish effective mode based on studying, attracting and benefiting audience, so as to help them to get informations to develop themselves, realize their social value and achieve an integrated development finally. Humanistic Learning Theory provides an academic support for the principle of exhibition design. Some modern European museums have set up various successful modes in exhibition design on the basis of Humanistic Learning Theory. According to the humanism ideas, modern European museums have endowed displaying items with abundant emotional factors, found up many actual problematic scenes, connected exhibition contents closely with practical audience's experiences in daily life, accelerated them to explore and learn further. This is accordant with the so called well known saying “knowledge is infinite”.
This paper analyzed nearly 100 cases of science education activities submitted to China natural science museum, for the first time concentrating on the research of design, resource employment, implementation and evaluation of science education activities. The paper described how these activities were carrying out, the level and characteristics of their development. The theory of best cases could provided instructions and support for practitioners of science education activities.
The discussion about the spirit of science happened in the time of New Culture Movement and the period of reform and opening-up. The connotations of the spirit of science include spirit of seeking truth from facts, spirit of exploration and practice, skeptical spirit and selfless spirit during the New Culture Movement. The connotations about the spirit of science since reform and opening-up include two meanings: first, the spirit of science is the awareness and attitude that people should possess in the scientific activities, including the spirit of seeking truth from facts, the spirit of practice, the spirit of exploration and innovation, etc; secondly, the spirit of science is the cultural essence and value systems which derives from scientific activities, its basic values are the pursuit of the objective facts and the truth, advocating ration, evidence and progress, etc. The connotations of spirit of science are constantly changing and developing, and the fundamental reasons for these development and change are the progress of the times and the concept of scientific development. However, the basic connotations about the spirit of science in the pursuit of truth and seeking truth from facts do not changed.
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