Pedagogy is a national first-class discipline and an independent discipline. Pedagogy is a social science that studies human educational phenomena, solves educational problems and reveals general educational laws. Education is a social phenomenon widely existing in human life, and pedagogy is an activity to cultivate social people purposefully.

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Two subjects under the first-level discipline pedagogy (040 1): pedagogy principle (code 04010/), curriculum and teaching theory (code 040 102) and education history (code 040 103).

Higher education (code 040 106), adult education (code 040 107), vocational and technical education (code 040 108), special education (code 040 109), educational technology (code 040109)