Korean and Chinese Sports Pedagogy Research Trand: Focusing on 2007-2016

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to present an intellectual structure reflecting the latest research trends in the sport pedagogy field using co-occurrence network analysis, one of the bibliometrics techniques, and to identify how the subject area is constructed. It is planning to compare and analyze the intellectual structure of sport pedagogy between South Korea and China. Research Question 1) What are the main topics of sport pedagogy in Korea and China? 2) Does the research topic of Korea and China represent structural changes by period? 3) How does the network of researchers make up the sport pedagogy intellectual structure in Korea and China appear? First, Korea and China had common research topics such as physical education, physical activity, curriculum, and physical education teachers in four areas. Second, the overall structure of the research topics was not significantly different as a result of comparing and analyzing the 10-year studies of both countries in a five-year period. Third, the analysis of the cited documents showed that Korea had the highest frequency of physical education criticism of Yoo (2005), humanities and physical education of Choi (2010a), and HANARO classes. On the other hand, China had the highest frequency of quotations such as Zhou’s School Physical Education and Mao’s Didactics of Physical Education. Therefore, this research is meaningful in that it selected China as a comparative country in the field of sports pedagogy and approached the direction of research between the two countries academically.