Definition of Pedagogy

1. Noun. The principles and methods of instruction.

Exact synonyms: Pedagogics, Teaching Method
Generic synonyms: Method
Specialized synonyms: Maieutic Method, Socratic Method
Derivative terms: Pedagogic, Pedagogical

2. Noun. The profession of a teacher. "Pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"

3. Noun. The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill. "Good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"

Definition of Pedagogy

1. n. Pedagogics; pedagogism.

Definition of Pedagogy

1. Noun. The profession of teaching. ¹

2. Noun. The activities of educating, teaching or instructing. ¹

3. Noun. The strategies of instruction. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pedagogy

1. the work of a teacher [n -GIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedagogy

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pedagogic
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pedagoguettes
pedagogy (current term)
pedal
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pedal extremity
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pedal pusher
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pedal steel guitar
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Literary usage of Pedagogy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1905)
"This the Hartford School of Religious pedagogy finds in the development of the well-rounded personality, of which the most important element is Christian ..."

2. The Chautauquan by Chautauqua Institution (1910)
"... Chemistry Civil Government SUBJECTS OF COURSES Mathematics and Science Mathematics, pedagogy of Classes for Boys and Girls Classical Languages Cookery, ..."

3. A Primer of Psychology by Edward Bradford Titchener (1899)
"The Relation of Psychology to pedagogy.—. The problem of pedagogy is to lay down rules or norms of education. Such rules may be derived from two sources ..."

4. A Textbook in the History of Modern Elementary Education: With Emphasis on by Samuel Chester Parker (1912)
"As a part of his duties Herbart gave courses of lectures on pedagogy, ... He published a number of books on pedagogy, of which two are most significant. ..."

5. A Textbook in the History of Modern Elementary Education: With Emphasis on by Samuel Chester Parker (1912)
"As a part of his duties Herbart gave courses of lectures on pedagogy, ... He published a number of books on pedagogy, of which two are most significant. ..."

6. The Professionl Training of Secondary Teachers in the United States by George Washington Andrew Luckey (1903)
"To this college have pedagogy since been added a school of applied science, a graduate school, a school of pedagogy, a school of law, a school of medicine, ..."

7. The Teaching of Mathematics in the Elementary and the Secondary School by Jacob William Albert Young (1906)
"The published results of the work done in the pedagogy of mathematics during the ... The pedagogy of mathematics stands in close relation to Relation of the ..."

8. Educational Problems by Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"CHAPTER VII THE pedagogy OF SEX The vast body of sex thought in folklore and how it permeates the ages to our children—The new epoch in sex psychology and ..."

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