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. Pedagogy is a purposeful activity to cultivate social people. Through the study of various educational phenomena and problems, the general law of education is revealed.
Pedagogy is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities, which belongs to pedagogy major. This major cultivates compound talents with good ideological and moral quality, high educational theory accomplishment and strong practical ability in education, who can engage in teaching, scientific research and management in secondary normal schools, primary and secondary schools, educational and scientific research institutions and educational administrative departments at all levels.
Psychology is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities, which belongs to psychology major. This major trains compound and innovative talents who have the basic theories, knowledge and skills of psychology, receive preliminary scientific thinking and scientific experiment training, and can engage in psychology-related work in scientific research departments, educational institutions and other enterprises or institutions or continue to study for master's and doctoral degrees in related disciplines.
Physical education is a discipline that studies the scientific system of physical education and its development direction. Its main content is to study the structure, level and evolution of sports science system; The subjects to be set up; The relationship between mutual penetration and comprehensive development between disciplines and related disciplines.
A brief introduction to the first-level discipline and two disciplines
The first-level discipline refers to the discipline classification of colleges and universities. The first-level discipline is a major discipline, and two disciplines is a sub-discipline. For example, the traditional China language and literature (Chinese) is a first-class subject, while the following majors such as China ancient literature, China modern and contemporary literature, comparative literature, literature and art, and language are all two disciplines.
Doctoral and master's degrees will be awarded to two disciplines. Generally speaking, the number of doctors and masters refers to the number of doctors and masters that can be awarded in two disciplines. Two disciplines can't apply for a first-class discipline, but it can apply for a master's and doctor's degree awarding point. Once the first-level discipline is successfully applied, the two disciplines under it can apply to become doctoral degree awarding points.
There are thirteen disciplines in China's higher education, namely philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, military science and art.