Humanities and social sciences are the general name of humanities and social sciences. Humanism originally refers to the knowledge related to human interests, which is different from the theology dominated by the medieval church; Later, its meaning has evolved several times. In a narrow sense, it refers to the study of Latin, Greek and classical literature, including philosophy, economics, history, law, literature and art, ethics and linguistics. Social science refers to the study of social phenomena, such as political economy, law, education, literature and art, history, linguistics, ethnology, religion, sociology and so on. Its task is to study and expound various social phenomena and their development laws.

Pedagogy is a social science that studies educational phenomena and problems, summarizes the scientific theory and practice of human educational activities, explores and solves practical educational problems encountered in the process of the emergence and development of educational activities, and thus reveals the general laws of education. The research of pedagogy is objective, inevitable, stable, repetitive, realistic, dialectical and scientific. Kant and Herbart clearly put forward the scientific problems of pedagogy for the first time, and advocated the rationalistic view of educational science. They believe that education can only become a relatively independent universal science if it becomes a knowledge system that can be expressed with clear concepts and propositions. /kloc-After the middle of the 0/9th century, the emergence of Marxism laid the foundation of dialectical materialism philosophy and natural science for the scientification of pedagogy. Marxist educators believe that pedagogy can truly become an educational science only if it is consciously guided by Marxism and truly unifies history and logic, facts and values, monism and pluralism, and theory and practice in educational research. The rapid development of modern production, science and technology and the extensiveness and richness of educational practice have further promoted the development of pedagogy.