《全民科学素质行动计划纲要》解读

相对于中国以前的科学普及、科学教育、职能培训活动和计划而言,《全民科学素质行动计划纲要》在理念和措施上有多方面的新构想和新规划把科学素质建设定位于突破中国人口素质瓶颈的基础性社会工程;对学界和社会各界争论颇多的“科学素质”概念做了新的概括;确定了政府主导、全社会参与的公民科学素质建设方针;设定了中国公民科学素质建设的近期、中期和长远三个阶段的任务目标;规划了近期针对重点人群采取的四大科学素质行动子计划;设计了保障四项行动实施的四大“硬件”建设基础工程和三大“软件”建设措施;构想了由组织领导和监测评估两个体系构成的引导和调控计划运行的网络。

Analysis and Understanding of the "Outline of National Action Scheme of Scientific Literacy for All Chinese Citizens"

In comparison with activities and projects of science popularization, science education and job trainings before, the"Outline of National Action Scheme of Scientific Literacy for All Chinese Citizens"is characterized with new ideas and plans in many aspects. They are: orienting scientific literacy building to a fundamentally social engineering to break through the bottleneck in population quality; giving a new definition of the concept of"scientific literacy"; making the policy of government as leadership, public as participants to promote scientific literacy; setting short-term, mid-term, and long-term goals; planning four sub-projects in accordance with four different social groups; designing four fundamental building engineering in"hardware" and three effective measures to guarantee the implementation of the scheme; mapping out the network, which consists of the systems of organization and evaluation, to guide and control the process in the implementation of the scheme.