21世纪国外儿童早期保教研究综述——基于WOS核心文献大数据可视化分析

Review of the Research on Abroad Early Childhood Care and Education in the 21st Century--Based on the Big Data Visualization Analysis of WOS Core Documents

运用Cite Space对21世纪的WOS核心数据库中儿童早期保教的研究文献进行可视化分析,主要探究国外儿童早期保教研究的主要概况、热点主题与前沿演进。结果表明:美国、澳大利亚、英格兰等在儿童早期保教研究领域具有较大影响力。研究热点聚焦于儿童早期保教质量的界定及测评工具的开发,儿童早期保教质量与儿童入学准备关系,及早教教师的专业发展;研究前沿从宏观层面的儿童早期保教质量概述逐渐转向微观层面儿童早期保教质量的提升;未来研究应聚焦于多个利益相关者共同构建儿童早期保教质量体系,儿童早期保教质量测评的改进与发展功能,儿童早期保教质量影响儿童入学准备的阈限值,聚焦于师幼互动质量提升的职前教育与职后培训。

This paper uses Cite Space to visually analyze the research literature on early childhood care and education in the WOS core database in the 21st century.It mainly explores the main overview,the hot topics and frontier evolution of abroad early childhood care and education research.The results show that the United States,Australia and England are influential in the field of early childhood ed-ucation research.The research focuses on the definition about the quality of early childhood care and education and the development of assessment tools;the relationship between the quality of early childhood care and education and children’s school readiness;and the professional development of early education teachers.The research frontier has gradually shifted from the overview of the quality of early childhood care and education at the macro level to the improvement of the quality of early childhood care and education at the micro lev-el.Future research should focus on constructing the quality system of early childhood education jointly by multiple stakeholders;the im-provement and development function of early childhood education quality assessment;the threshold limit value of children's the quality of early childhood care and education affecting children's school readiness;pre-service education and post-service training focusing on improving the quality of teacher-child interaction.