Abstract:

Science education is of great importance to the cultivation of the scientific literacy of a people. With the deepening of the reform and opening-up, science education has drawn wide attention and has prospered. Investigating systematically the development of science education in China since the reform and opening-up, this paper summarizes its development process at different times and sums up the main content and direction of its development. And according to the current situation, it points out the major factors that affect and restrict further development of science education in China and presents key issues concerned in researches.

Key words: science education, scientific literacy, educational reform, modern scientific and technological knowledge, social value