Definitions

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

  • noun The art or profession of teaching.
  • noun Preparatory training or instruction.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An establishment for instructing youth; a college.
  • noun The art of the pedagogue; the science of teaching; pedagogics.
  • noun Instruction; discipline.

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

  • noun Pedagogics; pedagogism.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The profession of teaching.
  • noun The activities of educating, teaching or instructing.
  • noun The strategies of instruction.

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
  • noun the principles and methods of instruction
  • noun the profession of a teacher

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French pédagogie, from Old French, from Greek paidagōgiā, from paidagōgos, slave who took children to and from school; see pedagogue.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Ancient Greek παιδαγωγία.

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Examples

  • At the University of Vermont the former dean made a distinction between scholarship and what he called pedagogy, and textbooks would fit under that latter theme, heading and get very little credit.

    Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 1995

  • "You need a lot of passion, but passion is not going to cut it," one teacher said, adding that teachers need expertise in pedagogy and their content areas, as well as in how to manage a classroom.

    Sarah Garland: The Education Reform Show: Now Playing 24/7 Sarah Garland 2010

  • One positive trend is the Bookclubs or Lit Circles that go along way to infuse the wonder of the written word for teens by designing improvements in pedagogy and critical thinking.

    March 2009 2009

  • One positive trend is the Bookclubs or Lit Circles that go along way to infuse the wonder of the written word for teens by designing improvements in pedagogy and critical thinking.

    Crisis for Publishers- read for free? what to buy? 2009

  • Feminist pedagogy is basically about stories: using cases is using stories.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • "You need a lot of passion, but passion is not going to cut it," one teacher said, adding that teachers need expertise in pedagogy and their content areas, as well as in how to manage a classroom.

    Sarah Garland: The Education Reform Show: Now Playing 24/7 Sarah Garland 2010

  • Considered on an industrial scale, successful pedagogy is only partly about technique – how good or bad particular teachers are, assuming one can come up with some sort of meaningful measure as opposed to standardized test outcomes or perhaps even student evaluations.

    Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Teacher’s Unions 2009

  • "You need a lot of passion, but passion is not going to cut it," one teacher said, adding that teachers need expertise in pedagogy and their content areas, as well as in how to manage a classroom.

    Sarah Garland: The Education Reform Show: Now Playing 24/7 Sarah Garland 2010

  • "You need a lot of passion, but passion is not going to cut it," one teacher said, adding that teachers need expertise in pedagogy and their content areas, as well as in how to manage a classroom.

    Sarah Garland: The Education Reform Show: Now Playing 24/7 Sarah Garland 2010

  • "You need a lot of passion, but passion is not going to cut it," one teacher said, adding that teachers need expertise in pedagogy and their content areas, as well as in how to manage a classroom.

    Sarah Garland: The Education Reform Show: Now Playing 24/7 Sarah Garland 2010

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  • Kristen correctly points out that this should ALWAYS be replaced by teaching.

    December 28, 2006

  • NYU's Steinhardt School of Education used to be called the NYU School of Pedagogy. Which would be the first time I'd ever heard this term.

    December 28, 2006

  • "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 ..."

    Joyce, Ulysses, 14

    January 21, 2007

  • "How can the oppressed, as divided unauthentic beings, participate in the pedagogy of their liberation?" - Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

    February 5, 2007

  • ga-gy or go-gy. Thank you Kristen! Teaching!!

    June 28, 2008

  • would like to add this word to the no-no list

    June 17, 2009

  • would like to ad this word to The No-No list

    June 17, 2009

  • Nobody is listing The No-No List. Unsurprisingly.

    June 17, 2009

  • I like this word; it has a long and venerable tradition. It is excellent, and I will so tag it. Pedestrian words like "teaching" and "education", which coddle the ignorant and talk down to the layman, hardly come close to the beauty of this word and its kin (pedagogical, pedagogue), which proudly display the dignity and valor of the profession they represent. This word belongs on a Yes, yes, yes! list.

    June 17, 2009