Abstract:

Science education is a key foundation and important cornerstone for improving the scientific literacy of the entire population,cultivating innovative talents in science and technology,and accelerating the construction of an education power. China’s science education policy has gone through four stages:the initial pioneering period,the exploration and advancement period,the comprehensive deepening period,and the period of maintaining the integrity and making innovations. By looking back at history,it can be found that the evolutionary logic of science education policy is manifested as a dynamic mechanism based on responding to the needs of the times,a value orientation from instrumental rationality to value rationality,a structural design from government-led to diversified governance,and a content arrangement from general and vague to strict and standardized. In the future,it is necessary to continue to strengthen top-level design to highlight the Chinese approach to scientific education;build a high-quality teaching team to consolidate China’s strength in scientific education;construct a full-chain curriculum system to create a Chinese style of scientific education;optimize the educational ecological system to build a Chinese model of scientific education.

Key words: science education, education policy, scientific literacy, high-quality development