Twenty-Year Research on Out-of-School Education in China from a Sustainability Development Perspective

Wen Lai (), Yan Xu, Jing Chen and Jingzi Xie
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Wen Lai: Jing Hengyi School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
Yan Xu: Jing Hengyi School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
Jing Chen: Youth Out-of-School Education Center, Zhejiang Youth College, Hangzhou 310063, China
Jingzi Xie: Jing Hengyi School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-9

Abstract: By using Citespace, an information visualization software, this paper analyses the hot content and evolution trend of China’s out-of-school education research in the last twenty years. The results show that the research hot spots in this field include the value and status of out-of-school education, the planning and institutional setup, and the policy and governance of out-of-school education. The hot spots in the weakening trend are leisure education and Children’s Palace, while the research frontiers in the increasing trend are quality education, Youth Palace, and research travel. China’s out-of-school education research should further consolidate the theoretical foundation of out-of-school education, pay attention to the research on the influence of out-of-school education, use information technology to carry out out-of-school education and evaluation, pay attention to the combination of qualitative analysis and quantitative research of out-of-school research, and improve the research validity. Only when the research results are rich and scientific can we achieve the goal of sustainability.

Keywords: out-of-school education; research hotspots; knowledge map analysis; secondary literature analysis; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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