Educational management is an act of rationally allocating all kinds of educational resources in a specific social environment, following the objective laws of education and realizing educational policies and objectives.

1) Meaning: Pedagogy is a knowledge about "education", that is, a science that guides educational practice and explores the art and value of education through the study of educational phenomena and problems.

(2) Research object: Only those valuable educational problems and phenomena that can arouse the general concern of the society can constitute the research object of pedagogy.

(3) Research tasks: describe educational problems and phenomena, reveal educational laws, guide educational practice, and explore educational value and art..

(1) Representative figures and works: The theory of studying children's development and its relationship with education by experimental methods of natural science rose in some countries in Europe and America at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. Its representative figures are German educators Man Mei and Rai, and its representative works include Man Mei's Outline of Experimental Pedagogy and Rai's Experimental Pedagogy.

(2) Basic viewpoints of experimental pedagogy:

(1) opposes speculative pedagogy represented by Herbart, and thinks that this pedagogy is useless for testing the advantages and disadvantages of educational methods;

Advocate the application of the research results and methods of experimental psychology to educational research, so as to make educational research truly "scientific";

③ Educational experiments are divided into three basic stages: putting forward hypotheses, conducting experiments and verifying;

④ It is advocated to explore the characteristics of children's psychological development process and their intellectual development level by means of experiments, statistics and comparison, and take the experimental data as the basis for reforming the education system, curriculum and teaching methods.

(3) Basic evaluation:

① Advocating quantitative research methods to promote the development of educational science;

(2) When the scientific quantitative method is exaggerated as the only effective method for educational scientific research, it goes astray and is criticized by cultural pedagogy.