What is the education major?
Pedagogy is a science that studies educational phenomena and problems and reveals educational laws. Pedagogy majors use the knowledge of philosophy, politics, economics, pathology and hygiene to conduct comprehensive research on education, so as to reveal its laws, demonstrate educational principles, explain educational methods and guide educational practice.
The main contents of pedagogy are the essence of education, the relationship between education and social development, the relationship between education and children's physical and mental development, the purpose of education, the education system, the tasks, processes, contents, methods, organizational forms and principles of education, teachers and students, and the management of education. The main subjects are pedagogy and psychology.
Employment characteristics of pedagogy specialty
(1) Pedagogy has strong application, great demand of the times and broad prospects.
Under the background of lifelong learning and building a learning society, China's social education, community education and adult vocational education are developing very rapidly, and all kinds of adult schools urgently need high-level adult education research and management talents. Therefore, the domestic rain and snow specialty belongs to a subject that meets the needs of social development and has a promising development prospect.
(B) Education professional employment is not just a teacher.
Pedagogy was once considered as a teaching profession, but now its scope has been greatly expanded in primary schools, middle schools or universities, and it has developed in many professional fields. It is understood that in recent years, the employment rate of pedagogy is around 95%.
Foreign education majors can generally be subdivided into basic theoretical fields such as educational psychology, educational philosophy, educational thought history, educational sociology and educational cultural anthropology.
First of all, pedagogy, as a discipline, is a social science that studies educational phenomena and their laws, and reveals the general laws of education through the study of educational phenomena and problems. As a major, pedagogy includes the research of educational theory (such as "pedagogy" major) and the practice of educational activities (such as teachers' major).
In addition, pedagogy, as a comprehensive discipline, often intersects with other fields of social science, leading to cross directions. The study contents of pedagogy specialty generally include educational philosophy, educational technology, educational sociology, educational psychology, educational management, educational economics and so on.