Latest ArticlesAs a fundamental national monitoring and evaluation research, Chinese civic scientific literacy survey has been conducted for over 20 years. This paper give a description and analysis of the general situation and main results of Chinese civic scientific literacy, the distribution of the civic scientific literacy in each provincial unit, public interest, information sources and involvement in Science and Technology (S&T), public attitudes about S&T in general and specific S&T related issues. Provide the basic data and referencesto researchers in scientific literacy related fields, and to decision-making in science and technology related departments.
A large number of researches have been conducted to cultivate students’ positive attitudes towards science, that has been an important goal in science education. The paper conducted a questionnaire survey among 6356 students from 20 senior high schools respectively located in Eastern, Central and Western regions in China to explore the main characteristics of Chinese students’ attitudes towards science by using PISA 2006 science survey tools. Results found in the paper show that Chinese students aged 15-17 are very positive to science and science related issues, and they are very supportive of science enquiry, and very interested in science and science career. However, Chinese students’ attitudes towards science remain relatively shallow in scope. The paper provides some suggestions for fostering students’ positive attitudes towards science in line with the research results obtained.
“Adam Comes Back”, featuring virile and plain writing style, is a maiden works created by Wang Jinkang, that works lays a foundation and offers direction for his writing style in his later life: bleaking and glooming yet full of philosophical thoughts. Based on the interpretation of “Adam Comes Back”, the paper expouds on the main featues of Wang Jinkang’s works and its influence on the later related works from the following aspects such as God’s narrative perspective, leave and come back, and root-seeking consciousness.
In recent years, there have been a lot of rumors about the technical risk. Based on two cases about the risk of nuclear technology rumors, the paper analyzes the process of interpreting the signals where risk rumors are released, and interpretation of the public based on the technical characteristics of the subjective feelings of risk. Due to the existence of public perception bias, false rumors become so appalling “fact”, resulting in the fact that technical risks are constructed and amplified artificially. The paper draws the following conclusions: the social amplification of technical risk makes the public have a perception of “true faith”, becoming a catalyzer for irrational behavior in rumors, adding to the difficulty in eliminating technical risk rumors, and prompting the attention towards the metaphor behind the rumors of technical risks.
Western Learning is crucial in the study of Chinese history of science and technology. This paper analyzes the importance of Macao by collecting and organizing the materials concerning the activities of science and technology in Macao.
Nowadays, the public service advertising of science popularization has started occurrence and got high attention and support from some local government of China. But, the theoretical research on this field is still vacant in China. This paper reviewed the relevant research and the practice experiences of the public service advertising of science popularization in China, and compared with the research and practice in foreign country. Then we got the conclusion that the development of the public service advertising of science popularization in China is insufficient. In view of this situation, we made some advisement for the developing of the public service advertising of science popularization.
Science communication is influenced by various factors of social context, such as politics, economy, culture and history, which has different impact on science communication in different time and space domain. On a global scale, current social context for science communication are experiencing three crucial changes: the science and society relationship is increasing close, the science and public relationship is increasing close and Modern information technology revolution opened up a new era of media. China is a country with appreciable geographic diversity, where exist huge gap in economic, social, educational and science and technology development between rural and urban area as well as among different regions. The imbalance development makes social context of science communication in China has both general issues facing other countries and prominent localized features. Diversity is a local characteristic, among others, of social context for science communication in China. The demand of citizens in China on science communication presents diversified and complex features, which were intensified by the leapfrog development of science communication pattern brought by new media. Based upon above considerations, China is taking public science communication strategy in a localized way with government-driven and social participation features. The paper looks forward to more attention to the impact of social context for science communication, and broadening the research perspectives on diversity under variety social context.
This article takes the “AST Space” in Zhejiang Science and Technology Museum as an example, and investigates and analyzes the idea, system and operation mode of the science popularization education in AST Space. In the end, this paper extracts with the successful adolescent science popularization education expansion practice of AST Space, from which a scheme of feasible principles can be used by other science and technology museums.
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