Visual Analysis of the Frontiers and Evolution of Research on Play-based Curriculum in Chinese Kindergartens = 중국 유치원 놀이지원 연구의 발전 동향 및 과제

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Kindergarten play-based curriculum is a process that regards the play as curriculum contents and make them run through all of curriculum implementation. This research is to regard 448 literatures from journal published in 1995 to 2023 in China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI, www.cnki.net). Through the visual analysis of kindergarten play-based curriculum research literature through ‘Information Visualization-CiteSpace’, it is possible to grasp the research status, research hotspots and research trend in this field. The research result shows that between researchers are short of academic exchange and cooperation and the way of research is mainly quantitative research but qualitative research is not enough. Actually, the hot points of research are paid attention to these fields: kindergarten, folk play, play, kindergarten play-based curriculum and play spirit. The trends of research are as follows in these fields: play, folk play, playfication, integrated curriculum and curriculum reform and so on. Current study analyses the evolution process of kindergarten play-based curriculum and the hot point and trend of future development, also provide more intuitive and complete data for the later research.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. Introduction
• Ⅱ. Data Sources and Research Methods
• Ⅲ. Analysis of process and result
• Ⅳ. Research conclusion and inspiration
• References