日本比较教育研究的图景———主题、方法、地域

The Panorama of Comparative Education Research in Japan: Themes%2C Methods and Regions

本文以日本《比较教育学研究》2002~2011年10年间所发表的学术论文、大会报告以及课题研究为研究对象，从研究的主题、方法、地域三个维度对上述研究成果进行统计分析，由此描绘日本比较教育研究的图景。在研究主题上，日本比较教育研究主要着眼于教育体制改革、教育财政和管理、教育公平、言语教育以及教育质量等方面；在研究方法上，文献法虽然是最重要的研究手段，但同时采用多种研究方法已经成为一种趋势；在研究地域上，单一国家研究占有非常高的比例，对亚洲国家的教育尤其关注；此外，大规模的跨国比较研究也非常引人注目。

Taking the Research Papers， Special Pape rs and Research Project Reports of Annual Meeting published in the ＂Japan Comparative Education＂ in the decade of 2002~2011 as targets， this article makes statistical analysis of the above research outcomes in three dimensions including themes， methods and regions. Firstly， from the dimension of themes，Japan Comparative Education Research mainly focuses on Educational System Reform， Educational Finical and Management，Fairness of Education，Languages of Education and Quality of education. Secondly，from the dimension of methods，an obvious feature of the Japan Comparative Education Research is that although literature method is still the most important means of research，using a variety of research methods have already become a trend. Lastly，from the dimension of regions，Japan Comparative Education Research tends to having a very high proportion of single country research，especially the education of Asian countries；meanwhile the large-scale cross-country comparisons research is also noticeable.