Sustainable Development of Children and Character Education: Bibliometric Analysis Using Vosviewer

Abstract

Objective: This research aims to review various character education methods that impact children's sustainable intellectual, mental and character development. Method: The research method is a bibliometric study based on a literature review in the form of articles taken from publications in journals published and indexed by SCOPUS with the keywords "Character Education", "Empathy", and "Children's Education" in the period 2021 to 2024. Computational mapping analysis for bibliometric publication data using VOSviewer application. Result: The research results show that the articles used as references totalled 129 articles discussing character education, children's education and empathy. The results of the analysis with the help of VOSviewer show that character education is closely related to positive psychology and emotions, and children's education is closely related to compassion, intervention, and character strength. Based on density visualisation, research on empathy is always developing and is still being researched by researchers.