It is conducive to establishing a correct view of education, mastering the laws of education and guiding educational practice; It is conducive to establishing a correct teaching concept, mastering teaching rules and improving teaching quality; It is conducive to mastering the law of students' ideological and moral development and doing a good job in teaching and educating people; It is conducive to optimizing teachers' knowledge structure and improving the level of educational theory and practical ability.

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.

Social foundation:

Education is a social phenomenon widely existing in human life and a purposeful activity to cultivate social people. In order to carry out educational activities effectively, we must study it and make it a specific research object of pedagogy after long-term accumulation. In particular, the development of modern society and modern educational practice puts forward newer and higher requirements for pedagogy research.

The essence of education, the relationship between education and society, people, the purpose and content of education, the ways, methods and forms of education implementation and the relationship between them are all educational issues that people study deeply.

Educational process, educational subject, educational system, educational management and various educational theories and practices with China characteristics. Pedagogy reveals the general law of education through the study of various educational phenomena and problems.