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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



... would not yet obtain that broad, comprehensive view, even of his own calling, and of the duties of his own particular school-room that he might have if he would travel occasionally beyond the walk of books and pedagogy, and become acquainted with the views and methods of men in other spheres of life, with merchants, lawyers, and doctors, with farmers, ...
— In the School-Room - Chapters in the Philosophy of Education • John S. Hart

... practical application of the intuitive method, had an extraordinary success, and has served as a model for the innumerable illustrated books which for three centuries have invaded the schools. —COMPAYRE'S HISTORY OF PEDAGOGY, Payne's translation, Boston, ...
— The Orbis Pictus • John Amos Comenius

... look to the possibility of the student becoming a teacher are preeminent in the development of mentality. The science of psychology is the foundation of the art of pedagogy, and every woman, particularly one who may some day be required to teach, should know the operations of the mind, how it receives, retains, and may best apply knowledge. An essential companion of this study ...
— Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife • Marion Mills Miller

... Western, and the Toledo, Detroit and Ironton railways. Adrian is the seat of Adrian College (1859; co-educational), controlled by the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1859-1867 and since 1867 by the Methodist Protestant Church, and having departments of literature, theology, music, fine arts, commerce and pedagogy, and a preparatory school; and of St Joseph's Academy (Roman Catholic) for girls; and 1 m. north of the city is the State Industrial Home for Girls (1879), for the reformation of juvenile offenders between the ages of ten ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... and noble thoughts, and puts them in possession of sentences of the best construction. The recitation of these expressive texts accustoms the children to speak with ease, grace and elegance." ("Elements of Practical Pedagogy.") ...
— De La Salle Fifth Reader • Brothers of the Christian Schools


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