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Primary education is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities, which belongs to pedagogy. The basic study period is four years, and the degree of education is awarded.
This major trains compound talents with good ideological and moral quality, solid subject knowledge and strong teaching ability, who can engage in education, teaching and management in primary schools.
The curriculum system mainly includes theoretical courses, practical courses and graduation thesis (design). Theoretical courses consist of general education courses, professional basic courses and professional direction courses. General education courses include university courses, innovation and entrepreneurship education courses and related courses in humanities and social sciences, science and engineering and art education.
Professional basic course is the basic theory and method course of primary education. Specialized courses are the main courses and specialized courses of primary education; Practical courses include educational probation, educational practice, educational practice, educational investigation, educational investigation and so on. The graduation thesis design includes academic papers, investigation reports, research reports, experimental reports, education and teaching and management case analysis reports.
Colleges and universities should reasonably set up innovation and entrepreneurship credits, establish a system of accumulation and conversion of innovation and entrepreneurship credits, explore how to convert students' innovative experiments, publishing papers, obtaining patents, and starting their own businesses into credits, and identify students' participation in project research and project experiments as classroom learning.
Colleges and universities can choose some knowledge units that reflect the frontier of disciplines, school characteristics and local characteristics to offer elective courses, so as to promote teachers to integrate international frontier academic development, latest research results and practical experience into classroom teaching.
The curriculum structure should cover the main knowledge units and knowledge points of the professional knowledge system. It is necessary to clearly define the scope and quantity of elective courses to ensure the selectivity of courses. Conditional colleges and universities can carry out domestic (foreign) student exchanges, various forms and levels of joint training or bilingual teaching in China.
In the total credits, the proportion of practical courses should not be less than 25%.