The Education Department of Southwest University was founded in 1950 and in 20 1 1. Southwest University is a research-oriented department with a long history of running a school. 1952 when the state departments were adjusted, nine higher education majors, including Xianghui College of Fudan University, Sichuan University, Chongqing University, Education Department of National Women's Teachers College, Education Department of Sichuan Province, East Sichuan Education College, Civil Training Department, Home Economics Department of West China United University, Education Department of Kunming Normal University and Education Department of Guizhou Normal University, merged to form Education College of Southwest University. 20 1 1 The school merged some staff of the former Southwest University School of Education, Institute of Educational Sciences, Basic Education Research Center, Teacher Education Management Office, Institute of Higher Education and Cadre Training College to form the Education Department of Southwest University, which became the key research department of Southwest University. Adhering to the educational style of the older generation of educators such as Yan, Gao and others, and carrying forward the school spirit of "connecting the past with the future", after more than half a century of hard work, we have built a talent training system from undergraduate to postdoctoral, and made outstanding achievements in talent training, scientific research and discipline construction. Not only has it trained many excellent people's teachers, educational management cadres and educational research talents for the country, but it has also trained a large number of scholars who are well-known at home and abroad. At present, the department has a post-doctoral research station in pedagogy and a doctoral degree authorization point in pedagogy, covering two disciplines 15 doctoral authorization points, two disciplines 15 master authorization points and five undergraduate majors. Has the national key discipline of curriculum and teaching theory and the first-class discipline of education in Chongqing; Has the key liberal arts base in Chongqing "Southwest University Basic Education Research Center"; It has three national-level excellent courses: curriculum and teaching theory, comparative pedagogy, classroom teaching technology and art; In Chongqing, we have brand specialty, excellent courses and excellent teaching team. Pedagogy specialty is the first batch of characteristic specialty points jointly determined by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance.

The department consists of the College of Education, the College of Education and the College of Teacher Education. It consists of five departments: Education Department, Curriculum and Teaching Department, Preschool Education Department, Special Education Department, Education and Economic Management Department, and five research institutes (centers), including Institute of Educational Science, Institute of Higher Education, Institute of Comparative Education, Research Center of Basic Education, and Southwest Basic Education Curriculum Research Center of the Ministry of Education. The faculty of this department is abundant, with 1 15 faculty members and 95 full-time teachers. Among them, there are 34 professors and 37 associate professors; There are 2 doctoral supervisors1person and 36 master supervisors. Nearly 80% of full-time teachers have doctorates.

The undergraduate majors of this department are enrolled according to the major categories of pedagogy, which are divided into five major directions: pedagogy, primary education, preschool education, special education and education management. In order to cultivate high-level professionals in educational science research and management, our department has set up a "strict experimental class" named after Mr. Yan, a world-famous historical celebrity and civilian educator, since 2009. Postgraduate education has a long history and outstanding achievements. 198 1 year began to recruit foreign education history graduate students; 1983 began to recruit graduate students in developmental psychology; 1984 The curriculum and pedagogy led by Professor Zhang Furong, a famous educator, was approved as a doctoral degree authorization point, and the first doctoral degree in education in New China was recruited and trained; 1998, the principle of pedagogy began to recruit doctoral students; 200 1, set up the Post-Doctoral Research Center of Education and recruit postdoctoral students. In 2003, he was authorized by the first-class discipline of pedagogy, and began to recruit and train doctoral students in comparative education, higher education, educational history, preschool education and other two disciplines 15. The department not only enrolls full-time graduate students, but also enrolls graduate students with professional degrees such as Master of Education, Master of Normal University and Doctor of Education. At the same time, actively recruit overseas students and visiting scholars at home and abroad. With the continuous development of the department and the continuous improvement of the level of running a school, the educational structure transformation from undergraduate education to postgraduate education has been completed.

The department attaches great importance to establishing extensive exchanges and cooperation with schools and scientific research institutions at home and abroad, and constantly pushes its teaching and scientific research to the international forefront. We have established long-term and stable cooperative relations with famous overseas universities such as the University of Illinois, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Washington, Michigan State University, the University of Delaware, Queen's University, Columbia University in Canada, Simon Fraser University in Canada, and Zurich University in Switzerland, and conducted in-depth academic exchanges through academic seminars, exchange of visiting scholars, exchange of graduate students, etc., which promoted the vigorous development of teaching and scientific research in our department.

According to the overall deployment of Southwest University to build a research university, the Ministry of Education will follow the principle of "people-oriented, deep integration, changing ideas and improving quality", implement the concept of "elitism, integration and internationalization", and adhere to the connotative development path based on talent training, discipline construction, team building, reform and innovation, serving the society and focusing on capacity building. The Ministry of Education will be built into a high-level educational scientific research center, a high-quality talent training base, a high-level consulting service institution and an exemplary academic exchange platform to train a large number of outstanding people's teachers and future educators for the country. Colleagues in the Department will work together with Qi Xin to build the Department of Education into a first-class research department with distinctive features and high level at home and abroad as soon as possible.