Latest ArticlesThe National Science Foundation of the US supports the studies and activities of science education and popularization through the Division of Education and Human Resources (HER). The expenditure of HER accounts for about 13% of the total budget of NSF. The budget of program on Informal Science Education accounts for about 1.1% of the total budget of NSF. NSF contributes to the advancement of science education and the promotion of teenagers'scientific literacy.
This paper gives a background description of the situation of STS (science technology and society) in Japan, and in combination with vary historical stages of the development process of the relations between public and science affairs, the paper offers a general and progressive view of the PUS activities in Japan.
Based on review of current situation of public scientific literacy in China and international comparative studies, the paper puts forward the concept of "living science" and analyses the main characteristics of it: tightly connected with basic living demand; puts instrumental and practical result in the priority; gives importance to sensibility and perception; integrated with social knowledge; has inherent connection with cultural tradition deposition. If we can say that science is the refinement of everyday experience and thinking, then it's an essential way for public understanding of science to approach scholarly "academic science" from "living science" which emphasizes particularly on common sense. Moreover, it gives us an important imply: We need the "academic science" (R. K. Merton, UCDOS) together with "post-academic science" (J. Ziman, PLACE) as well as "living science" (BISSC) to conduct the public understanding and using of science roundly.
In the course of constructing the scientific literacy of citizens, the complexity and fundamentality of the Interest can hardly work without the law guarantee system. The development of the socialist market economy, the implementation of the strategy of Sustainable Development and "Developing the Country Through Science and Education" and the basic strategy of "Governing the Country by Law" have advanced the establishment and perfection of the socialist market economic law system. This system includes the legal system about constructing the scientific literacy of citizens and it has been initially established. Consequently, the law guarantee system of constructing the scientific literacy of citizens has begun to take shape.
Based on the analysis of the general situation of the city proper science popularization in China, the organization forms of communities and the behavior inclinations of community members, the thesis carries out the study of the current dominant mode of China's city proper science popularization-the "science popularization community". The thesis elaborates with examples the purpose and significance of establishing the "science popularization community", the organization form, the implementation course, the establishment mode and the evaluation system of the "science popularization community". It researches and explores the actual and positive effects of the "science popularization community" in establishing a mechanism that motivates the extensive social participation, forming the cohesive force of the community science popularization, disseminating science, realizing the widespread and beneficial distribution of elementary knowledge and resources, and improving the public scientific literacy.
The paper analyzes the status and forming causes of the marginal groups in science popularization such as the floating population, women, the handicapped, countrymen and the poor, and indicates that low science literacy and poor condition of acquired knowledge of the marginal groups in science popularization exposes a serious justice problem in science popularization, and that the government and society lack or have difficulty in realizing the impartiality in science popularization in three aspects, that is the policy in science popularization and the focus of country's attention, the distribution of the resources in science popularization, and the specific practice and actual effects in science popularization. Finally, the text puts forward four pieces of advice to achieve impartiality in science popularization.
Along with the socio-economic development, ecological problems have become increasingly highlighted. To solve this problem, to popularize the ecological values is particularly necessary. Currently, the work of popularizing of science in our country also needs to take a new road to incorporate the difficulty theory of ecological values into the popularization of science, which will be an innovation both in the advocating of ecological values and in the work of popularizing science. This paper began an exploratory research, only for the peer experts and scholars to discuss.
The development and share of science popularization resources is one of the key of science popularization in our country. Therefore how to characterize science popularization resources is a question that needs to be resolved as soon as possible. From the perspective of science of resources and the connotation of science popularization, this paper aims to give a comprehensive and scientific definition of science popularization resources and provide references for science popularization research and practices.
Depending on the analysis of actual conditions of science popularization evaluation in china and the necessity of explaining enterprise science popularization resource evaluation, we discussed some key elements in this paper. The innovative conception that verification and modification will be all-important about designing the index system were put forward by means of the aggregation and comparison of the different hiberarchy and factors in some different index systems of science popularization effect evaluation.
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