新世纪以来国际成人教育理论发展的现状、问题与展望——基于《成人教育季刊》文献的可视化分析

Present Situation,Problems and Prospects of the Development of International Adult Education Theory since the New Century--Visualization Analysis Based on the Literature of Adult Education Quarterly

新世纪以来,在经济全球化、信息技术革命、终身教育理念等方面的影响之下,现代成人教育得到了快速发展,产生了诸如老年教育、社区教育、职业教育等方面的重要理论研究。以国际知名学术期刊《成人教育季刊》近二十年发表的文献为研究对象,采用CiteSpace文献分析工具对Web of science数据库国际成人教育理论发展的相关研究进行可视化分析。研究发现,成人教育理论研究的重点主要集中在成人学习理论、成人教育内容与成人教育主体三大方面,存在的问题主要表现为理论研究的价值不足、批判性不足、系统性欠缺。未来将更加重视成人学习理论对学习方式的变革,关注不同成人教育形式对成人参与权的影响,聚焦不同成人学生对社会发展的价值。

Since the new century,modern adult education has developed rapidly under the influence of economic globalization,information technology revolution and the concept of lifelong education,resulting in important theoretical researches such as elderly education,community education,vocational education and so on.This paper takes the literature published by Adult Education Quarterly in the past 20 years,the famous international academic journal,as the research object,and uses CiteSpace literature analysis tool to conduct a visual analysis of the related research on the development of international adult education theories in Web of Science database.It is found that the key point of theoretical research on adult education mainly focuses on adult learning theory,adult education content and adult education subject.The existing problems are mainly manifested in the lack of value,criticism and systematicness of theoretical research.It will pay more attention to the transformation of adult learning theory on learning methods,the influence of different adult education forms on adult participation rights,and the value of different adult students on social development in the future.