Postgraduate entrance examination for pedagogy: an introduction to the specialty of pedagogy principles

The principle of pedagogy, formerly known as the basic theory of education, is a two disciplines under pedagogy. Study the basic theoretical problems of pedagogy and explore the general principles and laws of education. Provide comprehensive research results for the development of educational theory and educational reform. The principle of pedagogy is a basic discipline in pedagogy, which provides theoretical viewpoints and methods for the other two disciplines and provides theoretical basis for the study of various levels of education.

2. Research direction

(1) The basic theory of education mainly studies the problems of educational theory. It mainly studies the development law of education, meta-pedagogy, the relationship between education and people, the relationship between education and society, educational purpose, educational system, contemporary educational hot spots and problems, developing educational reform, educational scientific research methods, comparative study of educational theories, and teacher education research.

(2) Direction of Philosophy of Education Philosophy of education is a discipline that studies the basic problems of education with certain philosophical viewpoints and methods. Students majoring in philosophy had better choose this major again. Pay attention to the philosophical investigation and research on some basic problems of modern education in China, focusing on the purpose and task of education, the relationship between education and society, the relationship between education and human development, China's traditional educational philosophy, and the reference and criticism of western educational philosophy under the conditions of social transformation.

(3) The direction of educational culturology takes the educational culture of human beings as the research object, and comprehensively understands the educational activities of human beings from multiple angles, with the focus on in-depth interpretation of the cultural significance behind educational phenomena, such as studying which cultural traditions are reflected by educational concepts in different countries and which educational cultures are reflected by a country's educational system.

(4) The research direction of education reform and development mainly focuses on the study of school education reform and regional education development strategy. At the same time, it also focuses on the development strategy of compulsory education, school development and orientation, and regional education planning. Such as compulsory education management and resource allocation research, university positioning research, school management and planning research.

(5) Direction of Educational Politics Educational politics is a discipline that studies the dialectical relationship between education and politics and the law of its movement development, focusing on the differences and connections between education and politics and the objective law of their coordinated development. At present, domestic research generally includes: the basic relationship between education and politics, various relationships between education and political subjects and their behaviors, and the relationship between educational democratization, educational internationalization and international politics.

(6) Direction of Educational Law Educational law is an interdisciplinary subject of law and pedagogy, with educational laws, educational legal phenomena and their development laws as the research objects. The research on how to stipulate the rights and obligations in all education by law mainly focuses on the formulation, implementation and perfection of the education law.

(7) Sociology of education is a branch of sociology, which studies the social nature, social function, educational system, educational organization and educational development law of education. Main research topics: the relationship between education and social structure, the relationship between education and socialization process, the relationship between school and society, the structure and organization of school itself, and the study of educational diversion.

(8) Direction of Educational Anthropology Educational Anthropology refers to an applied discipline that uses anthropological concepts, theories, viewpoints and methods to describe and explain educational phenomena, aiming at prompting the interaction and function between education and people, education and social culture, and social culture and people.

(9) the direction of moral education (including civic education and moral education, etc. ) mainly studies how to carry out effective political, ideological and moral education for citizens as a whole or individuals. For example, it studies how to cultivate students' moral consciousness in the private life, public life and professional life of the country and society, and reveals many problems in current school moral education.

(10) The direction of family education focuses on the education of parents to their children, revealing the problems existing in family education and providing reasonable family education methods.

3. Recommended institutions

East China Normal University, Beijing Normal University, Nanjing Normal University, Southwest University, Northeast Normal University, South China Normal University, Peking University, Northwest Normal University, Liaoning Normal University, Wuhan University, Huazhong Normal University and Shandong Normal University.

4. Employment direction

Mainly engaged in basic education, comprehensive liberal arts teachers, teaching and research in the direction of humanities education in higher education, office work, secretarial work, professional technology and management in institutions and enterprises.

(1) Primary and secondary schools The new curriculum reform in primary and secondary schools in China has been vigorously carried out, and talents with strong educational theory literacy are particularly lacking. Moreover, with the continuous improvement of the treatment of primary and secondary school teachers and the relative stability of teachers' profession, more and more graduate students majoring in education began to enter primary and secondary schools. This year, hundreds of masters from a middle school in Nanjing competed for two positions.

(2) This is the main destination of theoretical majors such as educational principles, educational history, higher education, comparative education and educational philosophy. But now it is more and more difficult for master students to enter colleges and universities, and basically they all require doctoral degrees. Therefore, graduate students who want to go in these directions must be prepared for doctoral studies if they want to go to colleges and universities.

(3) Publishing houses, newspapers, newspapers, especially those related to education, are also a major destination for education graduates, mainly engaged in the planning and editing of educational books.

(4) There are also some graduates from government agencies who took the civil service examination and joined the education administrative unit after graduation, but few civil servants majoring in education are recruited. Students who want to be civil servants can work hard, but they should be psychologically prepared, because the intensity of competition will exceed your imagination.