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

  • noun The art of teaching; pedagogy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The science or art of teaching; pedagogy.

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

  • noun The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

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  • noun The science or art of teaching; pedagogy.

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

  • noun the principles and methods of instruction

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Examples

  • As teachers, principals of schools, members of school boards, lady inspectors, authors in pedagogics, etc., women have attained an influence which is steadily increasing.

    Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894

  • A huge amount of emphasis is being placed on 'pedagogics', to the expense of the subject that is actually being taught.

    Schools, Schools and More Schools 2007

  • She returned to Mexico to teach Hebrew and Yiddish at her school for two years (1956 – 1958), during which she studied pedagogics at the Faculty of Humanities of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

    Chava Turniansky. 2009

  • We are currently holding a seminar ³Exploration of the virtual 3-D learning-space Second Life² as part of the curriculum of the division General pedagogics (focussing on "Bildung" and technology) at the Technical University Darmstadt (Germany).

    Qualitative survey of didactical approaches in SL Milosun Czervik 2007

  • We are currently holding a seminar ³Exploration of the virtual 3-D learning-space Second Life² as part of the curriculum of the division General pedagogics (focussing on "Bildung" and technology) at the Technical University Darmstadt (Germany).

    Archive 2007-07-01 Milosun Czervik 2007

  • From there Bloch continued with his Marxist pedagogics of the oppressed peoples.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Venezuela: The Principle of Hope Against Global United States Military Bases 2009

  • I asked stupid questions and could see the guy at the store changing his pedagogics from "decently skilled customer" to "very basic user".

    Wow. House. magnio 2007

  • We have to dumb it down, because if our failure rates are too high, then the pedagogics course co-ordinator simply cuts down the amount mathematics required for a mathematics teacher and increases the amount of pedagogics they have to learn.

    Schools, Schools and More Schools 2007

  • Dennis, I think perhaps I should make an individual slot for the edubloggers, as Education or pedagogics, as we'd call it here, is a field where weblogs are very much explored and researched.

    Dominant research areas? Torill 2005

  • Talk to him of pedagogics and he talks of practical experience.

    Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

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