Productive, Structural and Dynamic Study of the Concept of Sustainability in the Educational Field

Antonio-Manuel Rodríguez-García, Jesús López Belmonte, Miriam Agreda Montoro and Antonio-José Moreno-Guerrero
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Antonio-Manuel Rodríguez-García: Department of Didactics and School Organization, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Jesús López Belmonte: Department of Education, International University of Valencia, 46002 Valencia, Spain
Miriam Agreda Montoro: Department of Pedagogy, University of Jaen, 23071 Jaen, Spain
Antonio-José Moreno-Guerrero: Department of Didactics and School Organization, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 20, 1-12

Abstract: Sustainable education is currently booming in the teaching and learning processes, although it is not without complexity, due to its various dimensions and the evolution it has undergone to date. The objective of this research is to establish a mapping and scientific evolution of the term “sustainability” in education in the Web of Science database. To do so, a bibliometrical method has been applied, through the analysis of the performance of the scientific production and the evolution of the structure and dynamism of sustainability in education, by means of an analysis of co-words. The total number of references analyzed, after following a debugging process, was 9441. The results show the boom of sustainability in education in recent times, with a great impact on research related to attitudes and sustainability. It can be concluded that a large part of the studies analyzed are of a descriptive nature, with a decrease in the number of exploratory studies, which can give a holistic vision to the subject matter presented, especially regarding the development of the curriculum and the teaching-learning process.

Keywords: scientific quantification; bibliometric techniques; literary expansion; educational sustainability; education; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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