Pedagogy is a social discipline that reveals the laws of education by studying educational phenomena and problems. The research task of pedagogy mainly lies in understanding the essence of education, revealing the laws of education, and exploring educational values and art on the basis of revealing the laws of education, so as to guide educational practice.
Education in a broad sense: any purposeful activity, whether organized or unorganized, systematic or piecemeal, which enhances people's knowledge and skills, affects people's ideology and morality, and strengthens people's physique, is education. Including people's various purposeful influences in family, school, relatives and friends, and society.
Education in a narrow sense: (1) refers to education with special organizations, including full-time school education, half-day school education, amateur school education, correspondence education, radio and television education, and online education.
(2) According to the reality and future needs of a certain society and the laws of the physical and mental development of the educated, it is an activity to guide the educated to actively learn, reorganize and transform their experience, improve their quality, improve their personality, promote social development, and pursue and create people with reasonable existence.