Structural analysis of "Educational goals" based on Scientometric Methods in Articles in the Web of Science (1983-2017)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D. Student of Philosophy of Education (tendency of Islamic Education)

2 Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education (Islamic Educational Orientation) Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman.

3 Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education (Islamic Educational Orientation) Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman

Abstract
Background and Objectives: Training means to show off, to increase, to raise and to make good or expensive. In the latter sense, education is to go beyond extremes and push to moderation, and education is to provide an environment in which potential human talents have the opportunity to thrive in action. Scholars believe that education is a mirror that reflects the philosophy of life of any community and the goals and level of awareness of that community. Human civilization is not a heritage that has been achieved without effort and suffering from the past, but civilization is a social heritage that humanity has strived to acquire and this heritage has not been passed down from generation to generation except through education, because education It is a factor in the transfer of intellectual resources, high human values ​​and good qualities from ancestors to children. The present study is to draw and analyze the intellectual and conceptual structure of studies of educational goals using co-authorship methods of authors and co-authors of words in the Web of Science database in the years 1983-2019. According this aim, we have answered these qustions from below: 1- What is the scientific mapping co-authored by the authors of the field of educational goals in the Web of Science website during the years 1983-2019?
2- What is the scientific synonymy of the field of educational goals in the web of science database during the years 1983-2019?
3- What is the scientific map of the partner countries in the field of educational goals based on the year?
4- What is the drawing of the scientific table of concepts used based on the concepts of words (ID) of authors in the field of educational goals from 1983 to 2019?

What is the drawing of the scientific table of concepts used based on the areas of thematic concepts of vocabulary (SC) in educational goals from 1987 to 2019?

 
Methodology: The method used in the present study is the analysis of the content of words and concepts of texts, which is one of the new methods of analysis in scientometrics. This method is based on the fact that the words and concepts of a set of documents represent their content; Therefore, by calculating the degree of agreement of the concepts, the thematic structure of the fields of science can be drawn. The research population consisted of 893 articles indexed in the Web of Science database (1983-2019). In general, the search, retrieval, storage and processing of the studied words can be summarized in several steps:
First, in the Web of Science citation database, to collect the existing articles in the field of educational goals with the search strategy as follows: TS=("education* goal" OR "education* aim" OR "education* target" OR "education*scope" OR "education purpose" OR " education* objective" OR "teach* goal" OR " teach* aim" OR "teach* target" OR "teach* scope" OR " teach* purpose" OR " teach* objective" OR "train* aim" OR " train* target" OR "train*scope" OR " train* purpose" OR "train* objective"
 
Findings: Findings of 893 scientific documents in the field of educational goals in the Web of Science database indicate that the most active countries, according to the scientific outputs of researchers, from 2010 to 2014 were in countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, China and Australia. In recent years, countries as Brazil, China, India and Iran have been active in this field. Authors such as Wong, Liu, Yang, and Ding have been most influential in producing educational goals articles.
 
Discussion: Researchers in this field believe that if progress is to be made in this field, research based on components such as culture, values, self-regulation, adjustment, modification of educational goals, self-care, social intelligence, application of different teaching models, study motivations and ultimately self-efficacy. Orientation in it is necessary and educational goals are considered useful for reasons of practical application and research guidance. Educational goals can be considered as a complete set of educational programs that have been developed in the field of education and educational sciences, in other words, it is a system of educational goals that has been accepted in order to explain a specific set of educational programs. Often the essence of educational goals is about imagining an action and reaction and eventually the emergence of certain behaviors; Accordingly, we can expect to see the flourishing of a variety of real goals in the field of education and training sciences. The educational goals according to the clusters that have been drawn in this field include the topics of efficiency and practice, models and education, the role of education, students, motivations and children.

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