Review article
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v20i0.3038
An Analysis of Research Trends in Chinese Preschool Education for Sustainable Development
Kyung Chul Kim
orcid.org/0000-0003-4084-9554
; Korea National University of Education
Xiao Dan Jin
; Korea National University of Education
Abstract
This study aims at investigating the research trends in Chinese preschool education for sustainable development (CPESD), understanding its developmental trends, grasping the areas of neglect, and propose the future research direction. In order to achieve these research objectives, this study collected 163 papers concerning CPESD from 1992 to June 2017, including 149 academic papers and 14 dissertations, and analyzed the research trends in CPESD from four research aspects, namely period, method, content, and research type. The analysis showed that, from 1992 to 2017, CPESD research was initially rare, followed by first moderate and then, most recently, sharp growth. During this period, CPESD research has been primarily of the literature type, followed by mixed research, quantitative research, and qualitative research, with a lack of scientific and systematic research. The analysis of research content revealed the following themes, in descending order of frequency: “preschool ESD”, “preschool green education”, “preschool environment education”, and “preschool environmental protection education”, and the three common content types were “educational strategies discussion”, “practical experience introduction”, and “concept and theory introduction”. Finally, the research type was mainly in the form of academic papers, with most of the research conducted in kindergartens.
Keywords
children; China; early childhood education; environmental education; sustainability.
Hrčak ID:
224085
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Publication date:
17.12.2018.
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