pedagogy
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English
Alternative forms
- paedagogy, pædagogy
Etymology
From Middle French pédagogie, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγία (paidagōgía). By surface analysis, ped- (“child”) + -agogy.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɛdəˌɡɒd͡ʒi/, /ˈpɛdəˌɡɒɡi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɛdəˌɡɑd͡ʒi/, /ˈpɛdəˌɡoʊd͡ʒi/
- Hyphenation: ped‧a‧go‧gy
Noun
pedagogy (countable and uncountable, plural pedagogies)
- The profession of teaching.
- The activities of educating, teaching or instructing.
- The strategies or methods of instruction; an educational philosophy.
- 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, , page 106:
- A resource that profiles the important language of secondary disciplines by adapting the methods of EAP research could therefore be very useful for such pedagogy.
- 2023 October, Haibo Shen, “JIĀO/JIÀO 教 Chinese bilingual doctoral researchers to theorise translingually: A pedagogy for intercultural doctoral education”, in Linguistics and Education, volume 77, :
- To explore effective pedagogies to motivate these bilingual doctoral researchers to theorise translingually, this paper draws upon methodologies about translingualism and intercultural doctoral education to dispel the recurrent doubts raised by these bilingual doctoral researchers.
Usage notes
Do not confuse pedagogy (methods of teaching) with pedantry (misguided teaching).
Derived terms
Translations
profession of teaching
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activities of educating, teaching or instructing
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See also
Scots
Etymology
Noun
pedagogy (uncountable)
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