Taking,as analytic targets,4,302 pieces of paper from 20 kinds of economic or pedagogical CSSCI periodi-cals from the year 1 980 to 2010,4,266 authors have been analyzed in co-citation,in which visual methods of knowl-edge mapping has been firstly used to vividly demonstrate the mainstream academic groups of Chinese educational eco-nomics and their evolution process.As a result,four mainstream academic schools,namely,theoretical analysis school,empirical analysis school,policy analysis school,and social analysis school,have been found in the 30-year-history development and evolution in the fie...
