An Overview of the Literature on Design Thinking in Education and Educational Research

Abstract

This paper provides a bibliometric analysis of Design Thinking in education and educational research based on the Web of Science (WoS) database from 2002 to 2022. It is a guiding procedure aligning the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines into the bibliometric standard workflow and adopting VOSviewer as the visualization tool. With the built-in WoS analysis tools, the annual publication trends and contributions and the most prolific countries are explored. VOSviewer is employed to exploit the research themes. The co-occurrence analysis of keywords distinguishes nine research themes, namely creativity, design education, motivation, instructional design, problem-based learning, engineering design, methodology, pedagogy and teacher education.