Fostering scientific literacy from the perspective of interpretation of scientific literacy.doc

Fostering scientific literacy from the perspective of interpretation of scientific literacy Belong to natural science biology. Biology course is a science curriculum, which is one of the fundamental nature of biology courses. Science is a rich body of knowledge, including the nature of human understanding of some of the special ways and means. Precisely because the life of the world with these questions and to obtain accurate answers to more reliable methods, such as observation, quantify, verify, and thinking skills, human understanding of their own and the environment to an increasingly in-depth, comprehensive and reliable. These methods reflect the natural sciences and other areas of the different modes of cognition, but also embodies the basic characteristics and the nature of science. Biology courses as a science curriculum, not only to the dissemination of scientific facts and concepts, but also to reflect the science is an inquiry process. The purpose of biology education should be to cultivate bio-scientific literacy of all students. The purpose of the establishment of our biology courses will produce some significant changes. Understand the concept of the new curriculum will also help their biology teacher, teaching reform and practice. 1, on the understanding of scientific literacy The task of basic education in China is to cultivate qualified citizens of the future. In today’s technology products abound, scientific problems in our lives in the ubiquitous era, the future citizens who will become part of scientific knowledge or technology to create products or producer, but almost all of them will be science and technology products to consumers. Their personal life and social life, going to face various science-related issues and decision-making. The demand to live in the present and future citizens of society has a certain scientific literacy. (A) The proposal of the concept of scientific literacy The 20th century, 60 years ago, seconda