Judu Lights | The scientific editorial of partial doors is of the significance of scientific communication

Author: Professor of the Department of Science of the School of Humanities of Liu Bing University of Humanities, the Director of the Science and Technology Communication and Popularity Research Center of Tsinghua University, Executive Director of the Chinese Society of Science and Technology History, Vice President of the Chinese Book Review Society

According to the topic of this article, it involves two disciplines. In fact, it is to discuss the relationship between the two, or to discuss the meaning of the former to the latter. Regarding scientific communication, although there are still some controversies for its definition, relatively speaking, it is roughly a little consensus. The scientific editorial, as a relatively partial elementary, needs to be introduced a little.

The development of scientific editors

In English, the word Historiography usually has two meanings: 1. The history written by people; 2. The study of the development of history, including the history of the history of the general branch of the academic general, or the special period of the special period Research on the historical interpretation of the problem. The word Historiography, now in Chinese, is generally translated as a history, and is mainly used in the second meaning.

The easiest to say that the term of the history of history refers to the study of historical writing, historical methods, interpretation, and controversy. In contemporary understanding, editing historical research also includes the current trends of thoughts in analysis and research in history, trying to help historians discover their research interests, methods, etc. with a wider tide of thought. To be more clear, the direct research object of scientific editing is scientific historians, and scientific historical works written by scientific historians are a "compilation of history" research on the two. To some extent, editing history has also become a "critical tool", and it has overlap with the scope of historical philosophy.

Compared with general history (such as the time established by the discipline and the number of researchers), the history of science can indeed be said to be a late primary discipline. Compared with the development of scientific history, the research of scientific editing history is even more lagging, and the scale of research is smaller. But after all, scientific editing is still in development, and there are also related classic works. In recent years, domestic research on scientific editing has been increasing. Moreover, theoretical research in this field is of great significance for the history of science and even general history. This significance can even be pushed to many related disciplines such as scientific philosophy, scientific sociology, scientific communication, and scientific and technological policies.

The function of scientific compilation

The next question is the function of scientific editing. The most direct speaking, what is the use of scientific historical scientific historians?

It should be acknowledged that in reality, there are indeed some scientific historians who believe that scientific editorials are not useful for the research of scientific history. They believe that there is no scientific editorial, and scientific historians can still write the history of science. However, there is an analogy: there are many scientists, in fact, they do not think that the scientific history studied by scientific historians is useful for their scientific research. The function of scientific history itself is another related but need to be discussed, but it will not be expanded here. As far as the meaning of scientific and historians is concerned about the historian, in a relatively simple way, it can be said that as many scientists are not interested in or discriminated against the scientific history of scientific history and scientific philosophy, they have Can't avoid its understanding of scientific concept and scientific methods (these are exactly the content of scientific history and scientific philosophy specialized). When scientific historical studies are studied, scientific historians cannot avoid the scientific history view and corresponding correspondence. The influence of scientific historical methodology. The problem is that those scientists who care about science and editors have a conscious consciousness for the scientific history and scientific historical methodology in their research. Those scientists who have rejected the attitude towards scientific editors still cannot avoid the role of those positions, opinions and methods in their research. Essence The former is proactive, and the latter is passive.

From the perspective of scientific editing, in different periods, the historical positions of the scientific historians of different genres (including their scientific views, philosophy, and historical outlooks, etc.) are different. The scientific history of science is also different. Speaking of this, the problem of the meaning of scientific and historics has extended to readers of scientific history. From the perspective of the audience, if some doctrines of scientific editing and history can be understood, they will realize that the existing various scientific historical works are actually very different, and they will help them in different periods and different periods and different periods. The scientific history of scientific historians, scientific historical works of scientific historians, make distortion, make choices, and choose scientific historical works that can better meet their needs to read.

The propagators must have scientific editing and historic cultivation

But what I want to talk about here is that in addition to the research and writing of scientific historians considering scientific editors that people considers in traditional Chinese people, and two of the two that have been said to readers of scientific history, scientific editing history for scientific communication workers Significance.

In traditional scientific communication (or science science), it is prominently concerned about the popularization and spread of scientific knowledge. In such attention, the history of science has almost no special status and not noticed. Later, in the development of domestic scientific communication, the content of science popularization was defined as "four subjects", that is, scientific knowledge, scientific methods, scientific ideas, and scientific spirit, and then in the updated "Outline of the National Science Quality Action Planning", popular science's popularity of science The goal is defined as the scientific literacy of the public. "Citizens have scientific quality refers to advocating the spirit of science, establishing scientific ideas, mastering basic scientific methods, understanding the necessary scientific and technological knowledge, and using their ability to analyze and judge things and solve practical problems." Correspondingly, in the latest version of compulsory education science In curriculum standards, the goals of scientific education are also positioned in the cultivation of core literacy and understanding of the essence of science. In these changes, the history of science has become a popular science content for improving scientific literacy and important means. Correspondingly, for scientific communication workers, the understanding of the history of science and the application of the communication practice, it has become one of the key issues that cannot be avoided in the work of popularization. However, as mentioned earlier, there are many types of scientific history written, different positions, which are different. In scientific dissemination, what kind of scientific history should be selected for specific objects, which requires that the propagators have certain scientific and historic cultivation in order to make a screening and judgment. Therefore, proper learning and mastering scientific editing should be a necessary preparation for scientific communication workers.

As for more specific, those scientific and historic content is more basic for scientific communication. Because of the more content involved, it can only be discussed separately.

Source | Jingbao APP

Edit: Chen Jianguo

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