科学小品、科学教育与知识图景——以周建人为考察中心

Scientific Essay,Scientific Education and Knowledge Framework——A Case Study on Zhou Jianren

1934年,在科学大众化和大众语运动的推动下,《太白》半月刊首设"科学小品"专栏,聚拢并形成了以周建人、顾均正、贾祖璋、刘熏宇等为代表的中国第一代科普作者群体。周建人的科学小品主要关注"花鸟虫鱼"自然领域,在文章中融入细致观察和日常生活经验,用文艺、生动有趣的细腻笔触搭建了一个不同于以往的科学教育知识图景。周建人的科学教育书写方式的形成,与其成长经历及工作经验密切相关,并得益于同时期《太白》科学小品作者群的朋辈效应,展现了一批浙籍知识分子科学想象的变化和集体追求,他们共同促进了科学小品的大热,成为科学教育大众化的鲜明典范。在以周建人为代表的第一代科普作者群的努力下,日常化、趣味化、通俗化的科学教育书写方式逐渐被世人认可。

In 1934,driven by the popularization of science and the popular language movement,the semi-monthly magazine Taibai first set up a column of "science sketches",which gathered and formed the first generation of popular science writers in China represented by Zhou Jianren,Gu Junzheng,Jia Zuzhang and Liu Xunyu. Zhou Jianren’s scientific essays mainly focused on the natural field of "flowers,birds,insects and fishes". In the articles,he incorporated meticulous observation and daily life experience,and constructed a picture of scientific and educational knowledge with vivid and interesting writing which was different from the past work in this field. The formation of his writing style of science education was closely related to his life experience and work experience. It also benefited from the peer effect of the authors of Taibai’s science essays in the same period. It showed the changes of scientific imagination and the collective pursuit of a group of intellectuals of Zhejiang origin. They jointly promoted the popularity of science essays and became a distinct example of the popularization of science education. With the efforts of the first generation of popular science writers represented by Zhou Jianren,the daily,interesting and popularized writing style of science education had gradually been recognized by the common people in China.