Analyses The Informal Science Education In The United States

ABSTRACTInformal Science Education (ISE)is a kind of education which ishold outside school environment and mainly focus on the teaching ofMathematics, Technology, Science and Engineering, and for the sakeof the enhance of public citizens science literacy. Informal ScienceEducation is the complementary as well as extending of schools formalscience education. Informal Science Education is also known as theimportant method to enhance public s science literacy.Nowadays, schools formal science education is the focus ofdomestic researchers in this area. However, in some degree, thedomestic researchers ignore Americans Informal Science Education,especially the overall and systematically explore of the ISE. Therefore,itis necessary for us to make deep and systematical research of ISE inorder to improve the science literacy of our citizen and at the sametime impulse the development of our informal science education.This essay use documentary analysis method. Through the visit ofwebpage of the main complementation organizations of ISE, namelyNational Science Education, American Association for theAdvancement of Science, National Science Teachers Association,etc,writer gets a lot of authoritative and latest data, recoveries anddocumentaries of ISE. By sorting and classifying these resources, writeranalyze the nature and character of ISE, the activity programs of ISEand the development tendency of ISE. Among these, writer pay moreattention to the activity programs of ISE, in which the complementationorganization of ISE, the sorts of ISEs activities as well as the effects of ISEhave been deeply discussed.At the end of the essay, writer reviews the history of ChinasInformal Science Education and combines the situation of Chinas Informal Science Education to propose several advices for ChinasInformal Science Education based on the experiences of AmericanInformal Science Education, that is to strengthen on the extending of ISE,such as the ISE for kinder garden children and the ISE for the adult.; tobuild up the educational and systematical ISE; to make efforts to keepthe fair foISE and to pay close attention to the professional development ofISE teachers.