Abstract: With the "spatial turn" in social science research, the field of rural education began to pay attention to the spatial dimension of rural education research, and the related research on rural education space in academic circles also gradually increased. Through the visual analysis and content analysis of 173 documents of China HowNet, it is found that the research perspective of rural education space has changed from physical space to social space, the research content has extended from environmental creation to living conditions, the research method has changed from time characteristics to space-time characteristics, the research value has changed from distribution justice to highlighting space justice, and the research characteristics have changed from identity to difference. The study of rural education space in the future needs to realize the overall awakening of the spatial awareness of rural education research. On the basis of further clarifying the connotation of rural education space, we should pay attention to the use of time-space integration to build a rural education space that highlights the characteristics of justice.