Education in a broad sense refers to all activities that were once close to people's knowledge, skills and physical health and influenced people's ideas. Including family education, social education and school education.

Education in a narrow sense mainly refers to school education, which is an activity that educators exert influence on the body and mind of the educated purposefully, planned and organized according to certain social requirements, and urge them to change in the expected direction.

pedagogy

Pedagogy is a discipline that studies educational phenomena and problems and reveals educational laws.

Significance of pedagogy research

The so-called educational scientific research is an activity that takes educational phenomena as the object, uses various scientific methods, follows the scientific cognitive process, tests hypotheses or theories according to the analysis of collected factual materials, and reveals the essence and objective laws of educational phenomena.

As for educational theory, these definitions can be found in pedagogy.