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What is the difference between educational psychology and pedagogy?
1, different definitions

Pedagogy: Pedagogy is a social science that studies educational phenomena, educational problems and their laws. It exists widely in human life. Through the study of educational phenomena and problems, the general laws of education are revealed.

Psychology: Psychology is the study of behavior and psychological activities. At the end of 19, psychology became an independent discipline, and it was not until the middle of the 20th century that psychology had a relatively unified definition.

Educational psychology: Educational psychology is a social psychology that studies human learning, the effect of educational intervention, teaching psychology and school organization under the educational situation. The focus of educational psychology is to apply psychological theory or research results to education.

2. Different origins

Pedagogy: From the origin, pedagogy in English-speaking countries, pedagogy in French-speaking countries and pedagogy in German-speaking countries all come from the word "pedagogy" in Greece, which means the method of caring, managing and educating children.

Psychology: The word psychology comes from Greek, which means the science of the soul. Soul also means qi or breathing in Greek, because ancient people thought that life depended on breathing, and when breathing stopped, life ended. With the development of science, the research object of psychology has changed from soul to mind.

Educational psychology: Educational psychology only became an independent subject at the end of19th century, but many educators in history have been able to carry out targeted teaching according to people's psychological state in educational practice. Confucius, an ancient educator in China, put forward the heuristic teaching method of "if you don't get angry, you will be powerful, if you don't get angry, you will be sad, and if you don't get angry, you will be yourself".

3. The research objects are different.

Pedagogy: The research object of pedagogy should be "educational problems" based on "educational facts" and guided by educational values. Its purpose is to explore and reveal the regular relationship between educational activities and serve educational practice.

Psychology: Psychological process refers to the dynamic process of a person's psychological phenomenon. Including cognitive process, emotional process and will process, reflecting the commonness of normal individual psychological phenomena.

Cognitive process is cognitive process, which is a psychological process in which individuals receive, encode, store, extract and use cognitive information in practical activities. It mainly includes perception, thinking and memory.

Educational psychology: Educational psychology is a science that studies the basic psychological laws of learning and teaching in educational and teaching situations. It mainly studies the psychological process of teacher-student interaction and psychological phenomena in the process of teaching and learning.

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Baidu encyclopedia-psychology

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Baidu encyclopedia-educational psychology

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Baidu encyclopedia-pedagogy