pedagogy

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A native of Conway, Teresa received a special certification in Spanish pedagogy from the University of Chile, in Santiago, Chile; her B.A. from Hendrix College and her master's degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Central Arkansas.

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  1. noun The art or profession of teaching.
  2. noun Preparatory training or instruction.

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  • All aspects of the school, the curriculum, the professional development program, student recruitment, the kinds of technology and communications platforms in the school, the leadership model - all of that is built around a pedagogy, which is the way we think kids learn best.
  • Just read this today: The keynote of modern pedagogy is a protest against tradition, whether in subject-matter or in methods of presentation.
  • Supporting disabled students and novel curricula and pedagogy is an enterprise that bodes well for establishing the relevance of post-secondary education in a society where 1 in 4.5 citizens is understood to have a disability and in which the discretionary income of families affected by disability is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. —  Planet of the Blind
  • In keeping with the decorum of pedagogy, there will be no advertising on the site -- Frank says that the revenue wouldn't be significant enough to "justify the distraction from an educational perspective." —  doggdot.us
  • New York Law School's many workshops on scholarship and pedagogy, and the annual symposia and guest speakers series, play an important part in the School's academic life.
 

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

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  1. Formerly also pædagogy; = French pédagogic = Spanish pedagogía = Portuguese Italian pedagogia, from Greek παιδαγωγία, the training or guiding of boys, education, from παιδαγωγός, a pedagogue: see pedagogue.
 

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/ˈpɛdəgoʊdʒi/
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