Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Instruction; teaching; pedagogy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The art or science of teaching; pedagogics.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The art or science of teaching.

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  • noun Plural form of didactic.
  • noun The art and science of teaching.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

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Examples

  • The visit was preceded by a few days in Bogotá, where I talked to ELT groups and helped launch a new Masters course in English didactics at the University of La Sabana.

    Archive 2008-01-01 DC 2008

  • The visit was preceded by a few days in Bogotá, where I talked to ELT groups and helped launch a new Masters course in English didactics at the University of La Sabana.

    On visiting Colombia DC 2008

  • Not wanting to clutter the garden with "didactics," Ms. Li says just a couple of signs will give brief accounts of these stories.

    The Huntington's Garden 2008

  • But an open-minded viewer in search of some profound silence amid the hubbub of daily urban life including the MFA's store, coffee counter and overbearing didactics elsewhere on the walls of its new Linde Family Center for Contemporary Art, where the Kelly show is installed can derive considerable pleasure from this show.

    Beautiful, Quiet and Spare Peter Plagens 2011

  • I will cease with the didactics and the beating of this otherwise dead horse, because what would prove fundamentally more powerful is the rapper's success next season.

    Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style Marjon Rebecca Carlos 2011

  • I will cease with the didactics and the beating of this otherwise dead horse, because what would prove fundamentally more powerful is the rapper's success next season.

    Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style Marjon Rebecca Carlos 2011

  • I will cease with the didactics and the beating of this otherwise dead horse, because what would prove fundamentally more powerful is the rapper's success next season.

    Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style Marjon Rebecca Carlos 2011

  • Practicum students have the option of attending the didactics on the day they do not attend clinic (sleep shorts Wednesday or sleep grand rounds Thursday).

    Practicum Training 2010

  • I will cease with the didactics and the beating of this otherwise dead horse, because what would prove fundamentally more powerful is the rapper's success next season.

    Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style Marjon Rebecca Carlos 2011

  • I will cease with the didactics and the beating of this otherwise dead horse, because what would prove fundamentally more powerful is the rapper's success next season.

    Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style Marjon Rebecca Carlos 2011

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