Knowledge Mapping of Domestic Vocational Education Policy Research Based on Student Mental Health: Hot Topics and Evolving Trends

Abstract

Vocational education policy is the basis and follow of the development of vocational education. Studying vocational education policy is helpful to grasp the law of vocational education development, understand the existing situation of vocational education, solve the problems of vocational education, improve vocational education policy, and promote the development of vocational education. Promoting students' mental health is an important part in the process of vocational education, but there is a lack of attention to students' mental health in the current domestic vocational education policy research and practice, resulting in the work of vocational education mental health failed to get due attention. This paper selects 638 relevant literatures published in CNKI, which cover Chinese core and CSSCI core journals from 1994 to 2020, and uses visual analysis tool CiteSpace to draw the knowledge map of domestic vocational education policy research, and then discusses the age distribution, research strength, research hotspots and topics of this field. Domestic vocational education policy research has rich achievements, a wide range of research, research strength is strong, and key researchers and research teams are initially formed, but there is a lack of high-intensity cooperation between key researchers and key research teams. The research focus is mainly on vocational education policy overview, higher vocational education policy, secondary vocational education policy, rural vocational education policy, industry-education integration and university-enterprise cooperation policy. Every field of research is more, not only the static policy text analysis, and the dynamic analysis of the policy process. There are not only macroscopically comprehensive policy discourse, but also microscopically specific policy analysis. There are not only quantitative research methods, but also qualitative research methods. However, from the perspective of students' mental health, vocational education policy research rarely involves students' mental health, and the quantity and quality of publications are not high as a whole, and key researchers and research institutions are lacking. With the increasingly prominent status and role of vocational education in national economic development and social progress, the theory and practice of vocational education policy will inevitably be prosperous, and the guidance and planning role of vocational education policy research in the development of vocational education will be increasingly obvious. In the future research on vocational education policy, the value of vocational education policy is concerned, the operation of vocational education policy continues to make great efforts, and the multi-disciplinary research and localization research of vocational education are accelerated. From the perspective of students' mental health, it is necessary to pay special attention to students' mental health in the fields of vocational education policy value, policy content and policy operation, and promote the sound operation of vocational education mental health work with the help of relevant policy research and policy practice.