Latest ArticlesThe practices of museum assessment and accreditation program in U.S.A., U.K. and Japan have proved that, it can improve the quality of the museum service efficiently. According to the practical experiences of Assessment and Accreditation Program for Museums abroad, China Association for Science and Technology are in urgent need of carrying out the corresponding Assessment of the science and technology museums within its own jurisdiction. This paper argues that, the principles and guidelines of the science and technology museums Assessment should mainly focus on the promoting development, encouraging reformation, enhancing administration, becoming specialization and initiating characteristics. And therefore, the assessment of the science and technology museums will be better to concentrate on their functions, activities, conditions and characteristics.
In 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.
In knowledge economy age, function and value of science popularization became clear, and so the people's scientific literacy gradually acpuire promoting by science popularization. The paper dissertrates the important function of scientific thoughts focusing on rational for the construction of base about social commom trust, under the circumstances of that disembodying mechanism suffering assualt. And the paper think that science popularization not only popularize knowledge, but also, more importantly, forster scientific rational thought and improve public science literacy on it's basis, with the help of study on reflective application of science popularization in disembodying mechanism theory.
It is an undeniable fact that educational activities is the core function of the science and technology museums. With the overview and discussion of a series of innovative educational activities hold by the Zhejiang science and technology museum and analyzing the foreign science and technology museum's education activities at the prevailing situation, we draw the valuable conclusion; According to the domestic science and technology museum educational activities, we should focus more on strengthening theoretical research, human resource construction and paying much attention to the aspects of the audience's activity preference.
It studies the problems to be solved in the promotion of science popularization education functions, these issues include lack of thinking and understanding, shortage of funds, the imbalance of resource development, talents bottleneck, out of touch with the school science education, resources construction, inadequate mechanisms, imperfect policy mechanism and inflexible approach. It proposes the conversion of ideas, reasonable planning and scientific construction, establishing and improving funding mechanisms, realizing the link of science education in schools, communities and social and public cultural facilities, vigorously training science talents, improving the mechanism of resources sharing, building relevant supervision and evaluation and protection mechanisms, to realize enhancements of science educational function.
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).
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.
This paper uses the survey of the literature, questionnaire and interviews in order to study the function of the public cultural facilities choosing the most representative public cultural facilities, including science and technology museums, libraries and science education venues in Guangzhou, Wuhan and Xi'an. Through the statistical analysis of the research data, this paper establishes a new perspective and classification from the motives, needs, behavior characteristics and satisfaction conditions of the audience, and proposes countermeasures to enhance the science education of public cultural facilities in order to meet the demands of the public.
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.
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