The ability of scientific argumentation has become the essential core ability of modern citizens. The paper aims to illustrate citizens’ understanding of argumentation over controversial scientific issues based on a study of pre-service science teachers by using measuring scale that was created by Martin et al in their study. In particular, it aims to illustrate how these teachers view the quality of arguments related to argumentation in the context of a socio-scientific issue on energy. The results suggest that the level of argumentation about socio-scientific issues of the citizens is relatively low, which mainly reflects their weak awareness of argumentation and incompetence in debating structure. They don’t realize the importance of refutation in an argumentation. There is no significant difference in the argumentation level in gender. In addition, the citizens under study lack sensitivity to socio-scientific issues. On the basis of the study, some suggestions are put forward: Strengthen science essence education in primary and secondary schools to engage students to learn scientific epistemology; attach importance to pre-service teacher’s argumentation ability and cultivate their ability by combining written and oral practices; create a scientific and rational social atmosphere and encourage discussions on socio-scientific issues.

With the rapid development of science and technology, the traditional management mode of “exhibition-viewing-listening-teaching” and the matching exhibition and teaching methods adopted by the science and technology museums have been partially or completely replaced by the technological functions of the Internet. Therefore, the future work focus and organization form of the science and technology museums should be greatly adjusted, and the original exhibition and teaching mode should be reformed. Based on the status quo and looking into the future, the author proposes a guided exhibition and teaching mode of talent cultivation that can change the traditional way through exploration and research. This mode will realize the transformation from “traditional exhibition and teaching” to “guided training”. Specifically, it will use the exhibition as a platform to provide different training ways for the public, i.e. the training of the future science and technology reserve talents, the training of innovative talents and the training of the potential talents. And it will be a new mode of exhibition and teaching that is characteristic of being goal-oriented, well applicable, highly effective, easy to operate and so on.

School groups and families are the main groups of visitors to the museums, which makes the museum education an important bridge between formal education and family education gradually. So parent-child visiting behaviors in museums not only have a huge impact on children’s museum learning, but also may affect the collaborative education between families and schools. This paper took Shanghai Science and Technology Museum as an example to observe the parent-child interaction during their visits and the records of 32 groups of parent-child interaction behaviors were coded using software Nvivo11.0 based on the grounded theory. Finally, aiming at the problems existing in parent-child interaction behaviors, this paper proposes some strategies to promote parent-child interaction.

The fusion of popular science and school education is a future trend of science popularization for youth in our country. Based on some related studies and the findings of a questionnaire survey of the Experimental Middle School Attached to Yunnan Normal University, the paper argues that the integration of popularization of campus meteorological science into school curriculum should be grounded on training students’ practical ability and paying much attention to hands-on meteorological engaging activities. It suggests that the integration of campus meteorological engagement into school education be exercised in many domains such as education concepts, curriculum design and class teaching.

In recent years, science communication scholarship has been experiencing major theoretical overhauls, which include the challenges to the theoretically dominant public engagement with science model; mainstream communication scholars’ attempt to renovate science communication with typical psychological and cognitive science approaches; and the theory of science’s medialization and the impact of social media on science. Based on a systematic review of the three newest theoretical threads, this paper offers objective comments towards their development and suggests possible China resources that can contribute to the theoretical development. Finally, this paper discusses the inspirations these international theoretical developments can bring to China’s science communication study.

With China’s economic and social development into a high-quality development stage, the development of civic scientific literacy in the new era is facing profound changes, this is the evolution from communicating science knowledge to advocating scientific spirit, mastering core skills and methods, and having competences of continuous learning to adapt to the new situation. On the basis of the current scientific literacy evaluation system, we will optimize and upgrade the scientific literacy evaluation system from three aspects: first, develop new indicators of the civic scientific literacy which reflect the new era; second, add the scientific literacy behavior guide and core skills for the new era; third, integrate the scientific literacy behaviors as a part into the comprehensive evaluation system.

In order to understand the practice condition of science education in primary schools after the release of the Curriculum Standard of Science in Primary School of Compulsory Education, investigation has been conducted, and more than 3 000 science teachers and teaching-research staff from 9 provinces in China were surveyed. Results show: science curriculum was implemented according to the Curriculum Standard of Science in Primary School of Compulsory Education; science teachers can get training regularly but the quality of training is not enough; there are still some problems in science education resources. Based on the education practice, some suggestions are given to improve the science education in primary schools.

Since 2006, the social environment for science writing has been improved in China. More and more people came to take up science writing and have created a considerable amount of works of different genres, contributing to the course of science popularization and public literacy. In the next fifteen years, the core and aim of science writing should still be to meet people’s cultural and intellectual needs and serve the course of science popularization and the enhancement of public literacy. Continuous efforts should be made to improve the social environment, build a strong creative team, enhance quality awareness, and promote the reading of science popularization works.

Scientific literacy becomes increasingly important in constructing a modernized social governance system with the rapid economic and social development. Bringing in the concept of scientific literacy, this article analyzes its concrete impact mechanisms on the governance capacity of two main social governance subjects, the government and the public. The article argues that scientific literacy plays a crucial role in improving the governance capacity of civil servants and the public. Specifically, the attainment of scientific literacy improves civil servants’ social risk awareness, decision-making, standardized administration, and governance technology, while enhancing citizens’ sense of engagement, legal consciousness, and the ability to participate.

This article analyzes popularization discourse about GM on three WeChat public accounts in an attempt to identify the knowledge-oriented and reader-oriented discursive strategies for the construction of affinity. It is found that the coding of the popularization discourse is characterized by interactivity on the lexicogrammatical and semantic levels. Such a coding orientation plays an important role in the construction of affinity and the realization of the writer’s stances.