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What is primary education for?
Primary education is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities, which belongs to pedagogy. The basic study period is four years, and the degree of education is awarded.

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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. Primary education teaching should adhere to the orientation, take the development needs of China's national political, economic and cultural construction as the basic principle, take the positioning and characteristics of China's higher education as the reference framework, take industry standards and social needs as the guidance, and cultivate a firm and correct political direction.

Senior professionals with high moral quality, good scientific and humanistic quality, international vision, systematic mastery of basic knowledge, basic theories, basic skills and methods necessary for educational science and this major, strong innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, practical ability and educational and entrepreneurial management ability, who are qualified for the education, teaching, management and research work of various educational management institutions at all levels.

The curriculum system mainly includes theoretical courses, practical courses and graduation thesis (design). Theoretical courses consist of general education courses, professional basic courses and professional direction courses. General education courses include university public courses, innovation and entrepreneurship education courses and related humanities and social sciences, science and engineering courses and art education courses; Professional basic course is the basic theory and method course of primary education.

Specialized courses are the main courses and specialized courses of primary education; Practical courses include educational probation, educational practice, educational practice, educational investigation, educational investigation and so on. Graduation thesis (design) includes academic papers, investigation reports, research reports, experimental reports, education, teaching and management case analysis reports, etc. Colleges and universities should set up innovation and entrepreneurship credits reasonably, establish the accumulation and conversion system of innovation and entrepreneurship credits, and explore ways to carry out students' innovation experiments.

Publishing papers, obtaining patents, starting their own businesses, etc. are converted into credits, and students' participation in project research, project experiments and other activities is recognized as classroom learning. Colleges and universities can choose some knowledge units that reflect the frontier of disciplines, school characteristics and local characteristics to offer elective courses, so as to promote teachers to integrate international frontier academic development, latest research results and practical experience into classroom teaching. The curriculum structure should cover the main knowledge units and knowledge points of the professional knowledge system.

It is necessary to clearly define the scope and quantity of elective courses to ensure the selectivity of courses. Conditional institutions of higher learning can carry out student exchanges at home and abroad, joint training in various forms and levels or bilingual teaching.