ترويج علم: مباحث مفهومي، روش ها و اهميت آن

Science Popularization: Itʹs Concepts, Methods and Importance

This article shows interrelation between 3 concepts, which are science popularization, public understanding of science and science communication. Among them, science communication is an umbrella word that involves two other notions . Paying more attention to these concepts increases the public perception of science and scientific literacy. Two areas of science communication are: scientific communication between specialists in national or intemationallevels; and public science communication connected science to people. Science popularization and increasing of public understanding of science are tools at the service of science communication. Science popularization is methods and techniques of simplification of science to average people of society to better understanding of the scientific concepts and proces s. This article describes some methods of science popularization such as deficit model, complex deficit model and democratic model.