Science education is an education that takes imparting basic scientific knowledge as a means (carrier), experiencing scientific thinking methods and scientific inquiry methods, cultivating scientific spirit and attitude, establishing a complete view of scientific knowledge and values, and cultivating basic scientific research ability and scientific and technological application ability.
"Science education refers to social activities that impart scientific and technological knowledge and cultivate scientific and technological talents."
Science education is a purposeful activity to improve people's scientific literacy.
Science education is an education to cultivate scientific and technical talents and improve national scientific literacy (including scientific knowledge, scientific concepts, scientific values, scientific methods, scientific spirit and scientific ethics, etc.). ).
Science education involves four areas: personal needs, social problems, employment preparation and academic foundation for further study. Therefore, it is an education that teaches students the scientific knowledge of daily life and the future scientific and technological world, educates students how to deal with scientific and social problems, and enables students to have the scientific and technological foundation necessary for choosing a job in the future and the theoretical foundation necessary for continuing to study science.
Science education is an educational activity that enables students to master scientific concepts, learn scientific methods, cultivate scientific attitudes and know how to make wise choices in the face of scientific and social problems in reality by imparting modern scientific and technological knowledge and its social value, so as to cultivate scientific and technical professionals and improve overall scientific literacy.
Science education is a kind of cultivation education that pays attention to the necessary scientific literacy of modern people in the era of science and technology. It takes scientific knowledge, scientific thought, scientific method and scientific spirit as a whole system, internalizes them into the beliefs and behaviors of the educated, makes scientific attitude closely related to the daily life of every citizen, and integrates scientific spirit and humanistic spirit into the educational process of modern civilization.
The current situation in China-the current education system has cultivated "the silly girl of liberal arts" and "the Po Hou of science", which has led to some wrong understandings and behaviors of science and society for both liberal arts and science. Not only liberal arts students don't know science, but also science students don't know science, so China urgently needs to promote science education. The essence of science education is to improve students' comprehensive quality and popularize scientific knowledge, which belongs to a branch of quality education.