设计并启动全学程覆盖各类学校的科学素养教育计划

A Proposal to Renew the Comprehensive Educational System of Scientific Literacy in All the Educational Levels and Various Schools

科学的社会角色和基础教育功能的变迁对教育改革提出了新要求。我国应当设计一个教育计划,开设从幼儿园到大学专、本科的综合性科学课程。该课程以培养学生核心科学素养为目标。核心科学素养是学生在接受科学教育过程中逐步形成的适应个人终身发展和社会发展需要,对待自然、人与自然的关系以及处理这种关系所涉及的自我与他人关系的基本态度、思维习惯、价值取向和跨学科观念。这种素养表现在思维方式和行为方式上。掌握科学知识、科学方法、科学技能,认识科学技术与社会的关系,是培养核心科学素养的主要途径。

The changes both of the social role of science and functions of basic education require us to reform science education. China should design anew its educational plan, setting up a synthetic course of science from kindergarten to undergraduate level. Core scientific literacy is gradually formed in accepting science education. It answers to requirements of personal lifelong and social de- velopment. They consist of basic attitude, thinking habits, value orientation, and interdisciplinary ideas in treating nature, forming a good relation between human beings and nature, and establishing relationship between oneself and others, Core scientific literacy is usually manifested in ways of thinking and behaving. Mastering scientific knowledge, scientific methods, scientific skills, and un derstanding relation of science and technology to society are not core scientific literacy, but main ways of training it.