Definitions

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  • Same as pedagogic.

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  • adjective pedagogic

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  • adjective of or relating to pedagogy

Etymologies

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pedagogic +‎ -al

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Examples

  • There is a third quality which appears frequently, and which we call pedagogical insistence, because the author seems to labor under the impression that he must drive something into one's head.

    Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

  • Not that any sex talks are pending with a five-month-old baby; the issue came up for me when I realized that our bathtime body-part-naming song was, um, lacking in pedagogical rigor when it came to certain body parts.

    The Vagina Dialogues | Her Bad Mother 2006

  • Well, it may be of use to people who are thinking in pedagogical terms.

    PCA/ACA this year Richard Nokes 2006

  • Considerable information exists in pedagogical literature (such as Vincent of Beauvais's De eruditione filiorum nobilium [ed. by A. Steiner, Cambridge, Mass., 1938]), but this genre generally does not discuss the uniqueness of childhood as clearly as the literatures discussed above.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • In other words, there is a genuine educational (my colleague's husband hates the word pedagogical) benefit to their learning to work and take notes without computers.

    PrawfsBlawg 2009

  • If the administration at A&M were serious about improving classroom performance, they’d invest quite a bit more money in pedagogical training for their graduate students; hiring more professors and reducing class sizes; offering release-time for professors to design new courses; and so on and so forth.

    Matthew Yglesias » Performance Bonuses 2009

  • As a teacher, I challenge my students every day to think, reflect, and respond critically to everything they may read or hear (I dare not call my pedagogical approach the "Anti-Palin Doctrine", but I am sorely tempted).

    Teachers Can't Vouch for McCain's "Voucher Plan" Cheryl Lubin 2010

  • As a teacher, I challenge my students every day to think, reflect, and respond critically to everything they may read or hear I dare not call my pedagogical approach the "Anti-Palin Doctrine", but I am sorely tempted.

    Cheryl Lubin: Teachers Can't Vouch for McCain's "Voucher Plan" Cheryl Lubin 2010

  • As a teacher, I challenge my students every day to think, reflect, and respond critically to everything they may read or hear (I dare not call my pedagogical approach the "Anti-Palin Doctrine", but I am sorely tempted).

    Cheryl Lubin: Teachers Can't Vouch for McCain's "Voucher Plan" 2010

  • After all, these brand name pedagogical sects have been promoted by their marketing departments and the corporate media as miracle workers in terms of producing smiling, compliant, glassy-eyed children with high test scores and the work ethic of Paris Island Marines.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Jim Horn 2009

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