Thematic Map of Moral Education Studies Indexed in Web of Science 2000_2018

The purpose of the present research is to investigate and identify semantic relationships, map the development of knowledge, and create a network of thematic documents produced in the field of moral education indexed in the Web of Science database between 2000 and 2018.

It is an applied-descriptive research method that was carried out using scientometric techniques and the method of vocabulary co-occurrence analysis and network analysis. The keywords of the articles were used as research data. It will be the statistical population of the research was collected from the Web of Science database and by using the keyword "moral education" in the advanced search strategy with the command code TI=moral education** NOT**TS=morality education**NOT TI=ethics education, which includes 991 articles. was that the word "moral education" is used in the title. The data was cleaned, normalized, standardized, and structured in the next step. To extract keywords from Bibexcel software, to edit data and draw a strategic diagram from Excel software, to create a matrix from Ravar PreMap software, to draw a tree diagram from SPSS 22 software, to calculate centrality, correlation matrix and draw a multi-dimensional scaling map from the software UCINet 6 and VOSviewer software was used to illustrate the maps.

This research has shown that out of a total of 1982 words identified during the study period in the field of moral education, 1213 words were used jointly or exclusively in the documents found. The keyword "university education" has the highest frequency with 55 repetitions. The words "education" and "values" had the highest co-occurrence with a frequency of 5. After these two words, "students' ideology", "education** moral development", "university education** moral development" and "university education** humanization" have the highest co-occurrences of 5, 4, 3, and 3 respectively. Are. The results of the cluster analysis showed that the field of moral education consists of 10 clusters: "Care and Justice", "Business Ethics", "School and Children's Maturity", "Behavior of Minors in Kindergarten", "Sex Education", and "Ethical Education". - Medicine", "Challenges of Physical Education", "Citizenship Education and Training", "Social Values" and "Human Virtues-Mythology" with the highest concentration related to cluster 2 "Business Ethics" and the highest concentration related to Cluster 5 "Education" It has been sexual. The drawing of the strategic diagram showed that cluster 5 "sex education" is located in dimension 1 due to its high density and internal connection, which are very well developed. Cluster 3 "school and children's maturity" and cluster 8 "citizenship education" are located in dimension 2 of the strategic diagram, they are not central, but they have the possibility of development. Also, cluster 1 "care and justice", cluster 2 "business ethics", cluster 4 "behavior of minors in kindergarten", cluster 6 "moral-medical education", cluster 7 "challenges of physical education" and cluster 9 "social values" Next, there are 3 strategic charts that are emerging.

In this research, the field of moral education was investigated using the methods of synonym analysis and social network analysis using articles indexed in the web-science database between 2000 and 2018. The results of the cluster analysis showed that the researches in the field of moral education in the desired period are from 10 clusters, which are "care and justice", "business ethics", "school and children's maturity", "behavior of minors in kindergarten", "Sex education", "Medical Ethics Education", "Challenges of Physical Education", "Citizenship Education", "Social Values" and "Human Characteristics-Mythology" were formed. Drawing the steering diagram based on the relationships between the words that make up the clusters revealed other hidden angles of it. In recent years, the field of moral education has focused on the topics that are applied in educational courses, but still, responsible organizations do not invest in this type of issue, which is consistent with past research. Therefore, the field of moral education emphasizes citizenship education in the education system for society to benefit from moral judgment and stability of human values and virtues. Therefore, based on the results of this research, experts in this field should pay attention to all the needs of the members of society and human society.