First of all, from the basic goal of community education.

Compensatory education: informal education based on experience provides knowledge and skills.

Education of citizen's code of conduct.

Developing education: the core is to emancipate the mind and raise awareness.

Second, from the service function of community education.

Family life education: instilling communication and interpersonal relationships.

Civic education: relying on the community to improve the quality of the whole people and cultivate new people with "four haves".

Adult education: learning practical knowledge and skills.

Health education: provide health and disease prevention knowledge to residents.

Characteristics of community education

As a product of socio-economic, cultural and educational development, the common characteristics of community education are:

(1) New educational management system for local and private education. Community education is generally carried out within the existing administrative system. It is organized and managed by the administrative departments or social organizations in the region to meet the common interests and needs in the region.

(2) Community education is diversified and geared to all members of the community. Community education has a wide range of objects, from childhood to old age, engaged in different occupations and with different backgrounds. It can be a community college with a certain scale, or it can be a flexible and diverse center and activity place.

(3) To meet social needs and serve the society, education has great flexibility and a strong sense of service. Community education develops and changes according to the needs of the community, and it is not as strict as formal education.