教育学是一门研究人类世界教学现象和问题，揭示教育规律及其应用特征的学科。它是在总结教育实践经验的过程中，经过长期研究和积累而逐渐形成的知识体系。教育主要涉及人的成长、发展与学习以及教育活动的关系。它还指学习和教育活动的发展和组织，教育与社会的关系，以及教育改革和发展的规律。

Education is a discipline that studies the pedagogical phenomena and issues in human world, and reveals the law of education and its applied characteristics. It is a knowledge system gradually formed in the process of summarizing the practical experience of education and developed through long-term research and accumulation. Education mainly involves the relationship in human growth, development and learning, and educational activities. It also refers to the development and organization of learning and educational activities, the relationship between education and society, and the law of educational reform and development.

威廉希尔体育教育学科于1998年获批高等教育学硕士学位点，2005年获批教育经济与管理硕士学位点，2006年获教育学硕士一级学科授权；2011年获教育学博士一级学科授权，同年获批教育硕士专业学位点；2019年获批设立教育学博士后科研流动站。学科现有高等教育、教育经济与 管理、研究生教育学、教育技术学、教育学原理，以及教育、文化与社会六个研究方向。

The education discipline of Beijing Institute of Technology was approved to be a master's degree of higher education in 1998. In 2005, it was approved to be a master's degree of economics and management of education. In 2006, it was authorized to be a master's degree of education. In 2011, it was authorized to be a doctor's degree of education. In the same year, it was approved to be a master's degree of education. In 2019, it was approved to set up a postdoctoral research mobile station in education. The current research directions include higher education, economics and management of education, graduate education, educational technology, pedagogical principal, education-culture and society