新科学教育:从思想到行动

A Probe into New Science Education in China

科学教育是提高全民科学素质最关键、最基础的工作。目前的科学教育存在科学教育目标功利化、科学教育对象精英化、科学教育内容片面化、科学教学方法形式化、科学教育资源分散化、科学教育教师非专业化等诸多问题。在这种背景下,新科学教育提出让科学知识有温度,让科学智识有力度,让科学智慧有深度,让科学信念有高度,让科学教育有长度的科学教育新理念。探索新科学教育的实施路径和课程教学改革,以求为科学教育探索一条新路。

Science education serves as the most critical and fundamental work for the improvement of the quality of science for all. Currently,science education has such problems as utilitarian goals,elite objects,partial content,formalized teaching methods,decentralized resources,and non-professional teachers. Therefore,this study proposes ideas of new science education:science knowledge maintaining a temperature(helping students lay a good foundation for their future life and encouraging them to maintain their natural curiosity),strong scientific thinking(cultivating their habit of rational thinking),in-depth science-related wisdom(developing their creativity as well as their ability to find beautiful things),a strong faith in science(cultivating their sense of social responsibility by deepening their understanding of the relationship between science and human civilization and between science and sustainable development),and lifelong science education(guiding them to expand and use the knowledge acquired to promote their career development). In conclusion,the author proposes the plan and path for China’s new science education.