Community education is a variety of educational activities that use the educational and cultural resources of the community, face all citizens of the community, and promote the development of people and communities in the community. Community education is the product of social development and changes of the times.
In China, community education started in the early 1980s. Based on summing up the experience of combining the original school education, family education and social education, drawing on the experience of foreign community education, starting from the reality of different regions in China, it was gradually developed through pilot projects after the country implemented reform and opening up. The practical experience of community education at home and abroad has clearly shown that.
Only by carrying out various community education for community members and promoting human development can we meet and solve people's various educational needs and social problems. The development track of community education was gradually formed in China, which began in the early 1980s.
From the perspective of community education, the occurrence and development of adult education and vocational and technical education can especially illustrate the inevitability of community education. The development process of community schools (colleges) can be said to be a process in which community education gradually matures and its functions gradually emerge. Therefore, since 1990s, the concept of "education" in community education in China is no longer education in a narrow sense.