Abstract
The revival and development of values education in the world has become a hot topic in the field of education development in the new century. With the increasing demands of the government and people from all walks of life on the values education, the research on values education has begun to increase in the international academic circles. This paper tries to adopt the method of knowledge mapping, select the literature on “values education” in the SSCI database from 2009 to 2018 as the analysis object, and use CiteSpace software to analyze values education. The paper finds that the number of publications on international values education is increasing year by year, forming a core research field focused on pedagogy, psychology and sociology. The mainstream authors on international values education research are Simon Marginson, Pierre Bourdieu, John Dewey, Albert Bandura, etc. In recent ten years, the hot topics on international values education research mainly focus on six themes. Teacher education, physical education, personal values, choosing the caring setting, digital storytelling and professional identity, and teacher education has become the most popular research topic.
Highlights
With the changes of the social structure, cultural structure and lifestyle structure in various countries in the contemporary world, the structure of the values of the society has undergone profound changes, the conflicts between values have become increasingly frequent, and the deep connections between values and various social problems have become increasingly apparent
This paper, starting from scientometrics method and using the literature data of Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) database, tries to use knowledge mapping [9] method to carry out visual analysis on international values education research, and tries to depict the discipline network, core fields and research hot topics in the process of knowledge production, so as to understand and grasp the wholeness, comprehensiveness and tendency on international values education, hoping to contribute to the research and development of values education in China
This paper finds that among the relevant research in recent ten years, the most apparent clustering concentrates on six themes: teacher education, physical education, personal value, choosing care setting, digital storytelling and professional identity, which shows that the hot topics of international values education research mainly focus on these issues in recent years
Summary
With the changes of the social structure, cultural structure and lifestyle structure in various countries in the contemporary world, the structure of the values of the society has undergone profound changes, the conflicts between values have become increasingly frequent, and the deep connections between values and various social problems have become increasingly apparent Many global issues such as population aging, racism, immigration wave, new terrorism, AIDS, homosexuality and so on all have different relevance to values. Education Journal 2019; 8(6): 266-273 investigation, literature research, questionnaire survey, interview, case study, comparative study and other research methods of related disciplines These researches enrich relevant theory and practice of values education, but most of them focus on theme induction and content analysis, so it is not enough to explore the internal discipline network and knowledge structure of the “research object” itself. This paper, starting from scientometrics method and using the literature data of Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) database, tries to use knowledge mapping [9] method to carry out visual analysis on international values education research, and tries to depict the discipline network, core fields and research hot topics in the process of knowledge production, so as to understand and grasp the wholeness, comprehensiveness and tendency on international values education, hoping to contribute to the research and development of values education in China
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