Knowledge Landscape and Trend Analysis of Chinese Rural Education Research in the Perspective of Rural Revitalization

Chinese rural education research has gone through three stages of development: the period of slow exploration, the period of steady accumulation, and the period of broad development. This paper aims to clarify the knowledge landscape and trends of Chinese rural education research in the context of rural revitalization. To this end, based on the co-word analysis method, this paper collects terms, co-occurrence frequency statistics, and cluster analysis of academic literature on rural education research to give the current situation of literature based on spatial and temporal distribution and hotspot analysis of high-frequency keywords. The number of articles published in rural education research increased year by year from 2017 to 2021 with an average annual growth rate of 16.45%, and the total number of articles reached 465. Among the authors of the published articles, there are 25 core authors with three or more articles, accounting for 5.46% of the total number of all authors. From the distribution of hotspots of high-frequency keywords, the frequency of rural revitalization and rural education as the upper concept was 146 and 87 times, respectively, and the research on rural education showed a trend of diversification. Under the perspective of rural revitalization, academic literature research based on co-word analysis can clarify the policy orientation and research hotspot dynamics in the field of rural education and rural revitalization, examine the intrinsic correlation between rural revitalization and rural education, and explore the path options for promoting the development of rural education and realizing rural revitalization.