Abstract:

The advanced value orientation of educational research is the premise to achieve the goal of first-class educational research. And value orientation determines the value selection, and presented by value selection. This study takes nine top education colleges at home and abroad as cases to analyzes their educational research vision, by using Citespace 5.3R4 and Nvivo 11.0 to analyze the subject words and key words of the scientific research achievements of the education colleges of the first-class universities and the scientific research projects of the national education science program in the recent 10 years from the four dimensions of the basic elements of education, including education subject and object, education influence, education stage and education space, in combined with time and space. It is found that, in general, value orientation of China’s educational research is instrumental valued which oriented by educational discipline and national development, while the value orientation of foreign educational research is noumenal valued which is oriented by the development of “human”. In the new period of accelerating the construction of the world-class educational discipline, Chinese educational research should strive to realize the unity of instrumental value orientation and noumenal value orientation and make appropriate adjustments in educational research.

Key words: first-class educational discipline, educational research, value orientation, noumenal value, instrumental value