Latest ArticlesIn its broad sense, popular scientific knowledge could be divided into three levels, namely, the core layer, the intermediate layer and the peripheral layer. The core layer refers to the simplified scientific knowledge under a philosophy of “academic science”, complying with Merton's CUDOS Criterion. The intermediate layer represents post-academic scientific knowledge which is combined with manufacture and real life, complying with Ziman's PLACE Criterion. And the peripheral layer, is living scientific knowledge which is combined with society and culture, complying with Zeng Guoping's BASIC order. Each level has different characteristics by purpose, philosophy, content, pattern, physical performance and other aspects. There are no absolute boundaries among the three levels from the core to the periphery, but there is an obvious trend from “pure” basic scientific knowledge to culture-penetrated scientific knowledge. Detailed segmentation and deep analysis of popular scientific knowledge may provide science popularization work with theoretical implications.
As the development of the educational function of the world science centers deeply influenced by the evolution of the social and educational environment, it's important to comprehend the evolution of the education function of the science centers in the whole history of the society and education development. This paper systematically researches on the three stages of the social background and educational reform ideas during the establishment of the world science centers. Based on it, the author tries to explore the impaction and the regulation of the different education ideological on the evolution of the education function of the science centers, to provide theoretical basis for the development of chinese science centers.
The civic scientific literacy construction relies on the science popularization professional team construction. The development of science popularization requires support from human resources. This paper analyzes the needs of science popularization professionals, try to use the Systems Theory to design an science popularization professionals training system.
Talents are the most important resource in the development of popular science industry, while the shortage of talents has became a bottleneck to its development. Scientific community, as an innovative talent group, who masters abundant knowledge and engage in the research and management of science and technology, should play important roles and have great effects in popular science industry. Generally speaking, scientific community mainly plays two roles which include the role of participating (creator of knowledge content, innovator of technological means and policy makers) and the role of sustainability (communicator of consensus, transporter of talents and distributor of resource); in addition, two kind of effects, which are correspondingly performed by the roles, include constructive effect (leading innovations of popular science in three areas: content, form and institution) and affordable effect (shifting traditional attitudes, supplying new-type talents and opening market corporation).
Social sectors have become the main power of science popularization at home and abroad. The project carried out a online survey and analyzed current situation, experiences, and problems that social sectors carried out in china. Furthornore, it proposes some problems and countormensures.
For establishing the assessment of cultural centers, museums and other public cultural facilities and science education function evaluation indicator system of practical significance, basic principles are analyzed.
The authors focused on the progresses during the construction of National Popular Marine Sciences Education Bases of CSO. Some issues about the characters of social faitors participating in public marine science education were studied to make clear their direct and basic requirements. Some countermeasures on improving the policy environment and promoting the participation of social powers in popular sciences education, especially in the fields of marine sciences, based on policies making, programming and industrial development were proposed.
Science museums affiliated to enterprise (SMAE) is an important part of the public cultural service system in China. It is a new place of popularization of science and technology (PST). SMAE is the result of enterprises community responsibility. Some suggestions are put forward in this paper to the development of SAME according to main problems and discussion.
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