Primary education is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities, which belongs to pedagogy. The basic study period is four years, and the bachelor's degree in education is awarded.

This major trains compound talents with good ideological and moral quality, solid subject knowledge and strong teaching ability, who can engage in education, teaching and management in primary schools.

From the founding of New China to the 1990s, the training of primary school teachers in China was mainly undertaken by ordinary secondary normal schools. In the middle and late 1980s, China began to train primary school teachers at the level of five-year junior college, and later developed into a three-year junior college training model starting from high school.

65438-0997 The Ministry of Education proposed that the major of primary education should be included in the ranks of general higher education, and corresponding research groups should be organized. From 65438 to 0998, Nanjing Xiaozhuang College first tried to set up primary education specialty at undergraduate level.

From 65438 to 0999, the Ministry of Education officially approved Northeast Normal University, Capital Normal University, Shanghai Normal University and Tianjin Normal University to set up undergraduate primary education majors, and began enrolling students in the same year.

The importance of primary education

Primary education is a comprehensive education for children, including moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic education. In primary education, students not only receive vocational skills training, but also receive basic knowledge and skills education to cultivate ideological and moral quality and physical and mental quality. Primary education is the foundation of training talents at all levels.

Primary education is the starting point and important stage of life. In primary school, we not only need to learn all kinds of basic knowledge and skills, but also need to cultivate good moral character and values. Primary education is a stage to cultivate children's self-confidence, independent thinking and good interpersonal relationships.

Primary education is very important for the initial formation of students' ideological quality. In the primary education stage, students' ability to solve problems through self-thinking and dialogue is not perfect, and many problems need to be solved through the guidance of teachers. This kind of guidance can cultivate students' independent thinking and ability to distinguish truth from falsehood, thus promoting the initial formation of their ideological quality.