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What is social education?
Social education, in a broad sense, refers to social education activities that affect personal physical and mental development in parallel with school education and family education; In a narrow sense, it refers to all kinds of cultural life knowledge education activities carried out by social and cultural education institutions for teenagers and the public.

In China, there are mainly the following types of social education institutions:

1, cultural center (station). Cultural centers are social and cultural institutions established at the county level. Below the county level is called a cultural station. Cultural centers and stations are institutions established by the people's government to carry out mass cultural work and active cultural life.

2. Children's Palace. Its task is to cooperate with schools, cultivate excellent moral quality of teenagers and children, help them consolidate classroom knowledge, enrich cultural life, develop various interests and talents, and make them develop in an all-round way.

3. the library. The library is a cultural and educational institution that collects, sorts out, keeps and uses books and information materials to serve the society, politics and economy.

4. Museums. Large-scale museums are cultural and educational institutions that display, preserve and study physical and natural specimens of material culture and spiritual culture and teach them to the whole society.

Extended data function:

1, for life. Social education is lifelong for anyone, no matter what your wishes, it is never too late to learn, and positive acceptance is different from unconscious acceptance and negative acceptance.

2. Broad. Social education involves all aspects and corners of social life; Where there are people, there is social education.

3. Hierarchy. According to people's age, there are infants; Primary school; Middle school; Universities and adults. In terms of human status and level, there is a central level; Provincial and ministerial level; Municipal level; County level.

4. Diversity. The diversity of social education is the most obvious feature of social education.

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