Different majors: some disciplines of pedagogy, and the major of primary education is a sub-discipline. Different courses: pedagogy mainly includes Chinese in primary and secondary schools, China's educational history, mathematics teaching methods and other courses;

Primary education mainly includes mathematics, Chinese, English, music, art and other courses.

Employment is different: the employment direction of pedagogy is educational practice, social investigation and so on. The employment direction of primary education is mainly primary school teaching, management and research.

Pedagogy postgraduate entrance examination belongs to a kind of discipline specialty in China's regular postgraduate examination. It has educational principles of two disciplines, namely, educational history, comparative pedagogy, curriculum and teaching theory, preschool pedagogy and special pedagogy.

Under the two disciplines, it is also divided into many educational directions, such as the principles of education. The common professional directions of the following two disciplines are: basic education theory and philosophy, educational sociology, educational policy and law, family education, moral principles and so on.