Pedagogy:A Discipline or an Area?

In the history of pedagogical studies,scholars have made every effort to make pedagogy a standard science,but no appreciable success has been achieved whether they adopt the positivistic paradigm or the quantitative method,or the neutral value-free attitude.In our country scholars have set up a standard of three independency for the study of pedagogy,but it has been gradually proved invalid by practice.In the process of multi-disciplinarity permeating the field of pedagogy,pedagogy experiences a crisis of being colonized.Scholars realize,after serious rethinking,that multi-disciplinarity gives pedagogy an advantage in its development.Therefore,pedagogy is beginning to transform from a colony to an empire.In this transformation,pedagogy finds it necessary to break the traditional disciplinary boundaries and make it an area in which multi-disciplinary communication is contributory to the enrichment of scholarship.