Based on the investigation of science popularization practitioners training and cultivation, the statistical analysis of science popularization monographs published during 1950—2016, as well as the definition of science popularization practitioners and science popularization textbooks, this study analyzes current situation and demands of science popularization practitioners, and assesses the publications of science popularization textbooks. The main conclusion is that the fragmentizing of science popularization textbooks directly reflects the weakness of science popularization practitioners cultivation and the lack of training systems. Suggestions are proposed in the paper as the following: firstly, strengthen the construction of science communication and popularization disciplines; secondly, routinize the science popularization practitioners training and cultivation and normalize corresponding science popularization textbooks; finally, construct science popularization professional cultivation system and science popularization staff training system, so as to lay a solid foundation of manpower for the long-term development of science popularization.

science popularization textbooks  /  master of popular science  /  science popularization practitioner