英文摘要 |
Popular topics of research in the field of education philosophy in Mainland China were analyzed in this study. By means of knowledge map visualization analysis on academic papers of education philosophy, which was collected from CNKI in the years of 1986 to 2016, statistical analysis found that there were four major focuses: research subject attribute on education philosophy itself was the most popular; from the aspect of different educational stages, higher education philosophy was the most popular when compared with studies in elementary and secondary education; from the aspect of different subjects, music education philosophy was the most popular when compared with studies in science, mathematics, language and art or teaching philosophy; and from the aspect of educational thinking, studies on schools of philosophy and thoughts of philosophers were still the most popular area of education philosophy studies. In addition, three trends of evolution were found among the frontier topics of education philosophy studies in mainland China during the past 30 years: weakening, steady and gradual. The weakening frontier topics include education value orientation, humanistic spirit, quality education and knowledge theory. The steady frontier topics include school-based curriculum, education reform, education practice, and educational thinking. The gradual frontier topics include higher education, ideological and political education, music education, and vocational education. |