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Pedagogy   /pˈɛdəgˌoʊdʒi/   Listen
Pedagogy

noun
1.
The principles and methods of instruction.  Synonyms: pedagogics, teaching method.
2.
The profession of a teacher.  Synonyms: instruction, teaching.  "Pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"
3.
The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill.  Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, teaching.  "Our instruction was carefully programmed" , "Good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"






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"Pedagogy" Quotes from Famous Books



... a series of cases of affection of girls for girls, in apparently normal subjects in the United States, see, e.g., Lancaster, "The Psychology and Pedagogy of Adolescence," Pedagogical Seminary, July, 1897, p. 88; also, for school friendships between girls, exactly resembling those between boys and girls, Theodate L. Smith, "Types of Adolescent Affection," ib., June, 1904, ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... than "old-fashioned respect" is exemplified in the following anecdote of young America. A Professor of Pedagogy in a Western university brings up his children on the most advanced principles. Among other things, they are encouraged to sink the antiquated terms "father" and "mother," and call their parents by their Christian names. On one ...
— America To-day, Observations and Reflections • William Archer

... comprendre, c'est tout pardonner," as the French ethical maxim has it, may be modified into the true motto of aesthetic criticism, "Tout comprendre, c'est tout justifier." Of course, by "criticism" one does not mean pedagogy, as so many people constantly imagine, nor does justifying everything include bad drawing. But as Lebrun, for example, is not nowadays held up as a model to young painters, and is not to be accused of bad drawing, why do we so entirely dispense ourselves from comprehending him ...
— French Art - Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture • W. C. Brownell

... the figure of Bannon in explorer's kit of tweed shorts and salted cowhide brogues contrasted sharply with the primrose elegance and townbred manners of Malachi Roland St John Mulligan. Lastly at the head of the board was the young poet who found a refuge from his labours of pedagogy and metaphysical inquisition in the convivial atmosphere of Socratic discussion, while to right and left of him were accommodated the flippant prognosticator, fresh from the hippodrome, and that vigilant wanderer, soiled by the dust of travel ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... atelier issued works instinct with a new life, such as the dramatic group, The Departure of the Volunteers of 1792, on the E. base of the Triumphal Arch of the Etoile. Rude, who rescued the art from the fetid atmosphere of a corrupt society and emancipated it from a hide-bound pedagogy, is here represented by his Jeanne d'Arc, 813; Maurice de Saxe, 811; and 815, Napoleon awakening to Immortality, a model for a monument to the Emperor. In the centre are 810, Mercury in bronze, and ...
— The Story of Paris • Thomas Okey


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