Specialized course of pedagogy 1. General education curriculum
General education courses mainly include ideological and political theory courses, college foreign languages, computer basics and applications, college physical education, cultural quality education courses, entrepreneurship basic courses, employment and entrepreneurship guidance courses, etc. It aims to improve students' basic knowledge, scientific and humanistic quality, moral quality and physical and mental quality.
2. Professional basic courses
Professional basic courses mainly include educational principles, educational research methods, China's educational history, foreign educational history, curriculum and teaching theory, general psychology, educational psychology, developmental psychology, modern educational technology, introduction to special education, etc.
3. Professional courses
Colleges and universities can determine professional courses according to the educational training objectives, and the teaching content should cover the core knowledge points of business, including: moral principles, educational philosophy, educational sociology, educational culturology, the history of China's educational thought, the history of western educational thought, etc.
Employment direction of pedagogy major 1. regular institutions of higher learning
This is the main destination of theoretical majors such as educational principles, educational history, higher education, comparative education and educational philosophy. But now it is more and more difficult for master students to enter colleges and universities, and basically they all require doctoral degrees. Therefore, graduate students who want to go in these directions should be prepared for doctoral studies if they want to go to colleges and universities.
Second, primary and secondary schools.
At present, the new curriculum reform of primary and secondary schools in China is booming, and talents with strong educational theory literacy are particularly lacking. Moreover, with the continuous improvement of the treatment of primary and secondary school teachers and the relative stability of teachers' occupation, more and more graduates of education majors, especially curriculum and teaching theory majors, began to enter primary and secondary schools. This year, hundreds of masters from a middle school in Nanjing competed for two positions.