Ayelet Baram-Tsabari

While science communication training for scientists is blooming, it was often not accompanied by thinking about curriculum, pedagogy, or assessment other than self-report. In 2017, Bruce Lewenstein and I suggested a conceptual base for science communication curricula, and in 2022, we organized the learning goals for different groups of learners, offering the first systematic theoretical foundation for what science communicators need to know. In a special editorial, the editors wrote that the article suggests a foundation for teaching science communication. At the end of 2024, IJSE:B dedicated a special issue to responses and follow-ups to this article. To further the co-production of knowledge, we created an open-access document explicitly to foster a community for further developing the conceptual base for growing the profession of science communication.