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Science Education Research and Practices in Taiwan

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Science and technology has a prominent influence in the modern world. From the transition of the little science to the big science, there are many different factors involved in the development of science. How to improve the public understanding of science is going to be an important issue for most societies and cultures, especially in Taiwan, where technological industries play an important role in the economy by combining both negative and positive effects.

Based on in-depth studies and careful literature review, this chapter explores the relationships among science education, science communication , and social studies of science in Taiwan. According to the implication, and compared with the new trend of international studies, this chapter aims to build a new developmental diagram depicting public communication of science and technology in Taiwan. These results would likely provide a solid base from which the different academic groups may communicate, interact, and thus benefit from its usage.

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    “Big science” refers to team type and large economic-scale scientific development pattern, and “little science” refers to individual and small economic-scale scientific development pattern. Such terminology was proposed by Price in early 1960, when he largely calculated the number of scientists, scientific magazines, and scientific papers in the history and found that there was index growth in science industry scale in about the year 200, and it doubled every 15 years. In other words, science has turned from “little science” into “big science”

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Huang, CJ. (2016). Public Communication of Science and Technology in Taiwan. In: Chiu, MH. (eds) Science Education Research and Practices in Taiwan. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-472-6_14

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