didactics
- noun
- /dɪˈdæktɪks/
- Specialized
:
didáctica
- Teachers often employ various strategies and techniques in didactics to enhance student understanding.
Examples
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Suchman used the model to describe the different types of pedagogy, each serving a particular, legitimate function: didactics, diagnostics, inquiry, and play.
Academic text (1997) -
Personal interactions are structured for dialogue, not didactics, and activities are based on the needs of the business and its capacities for advancing environmental health rather than on measurement of compliance.
Academic text (1999) -
His primary interests are writing, didactics, and language.
Blog text (24) -
Foster an equal information exchange; educational interventions should be dialogues rather than didactics.
Academic text (2009) -
The material was pure didactics: definitions, logical derivatives, corollaries with no reference to the real world, no environmental or cultural influences.
Academic text (1998) -
Changing scholarship is the installation's focus: although the diorama's casting project itself is historicized and elucidated fully in these texts, the Museum has not limited the wall didactics to that alone.
Academic text (1997) -
References Amade-Escot, C. (2000). The contribution of two research programs on teaching content: pedagogical content knowledge and didactics of physical education. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 20(1), 78-101.
Academic text (2011) -
Simultaneously, the purpose of the work is to provide a contribution to the ongoing discussion of didactics in physics (e.g., Greeno, 1997; Wiesner, 1995) as to whether one can, by compensating for prior knowledge differences, expect to see a reasonable improvement in the present situation of girls with respect to physics.
Academic text (1998) -
CBT interventions have similarities to other models used in schools (i.e., time-limited, incorporate didactics and homework, skills-based, behaviorally oriented) and are amenable to groups.
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The university offers a course on didactics to improve the teaching methods of its faculty.
Synonyms
572
1.0
A job helping people learn
141
1.9
Teaching or training given to help someone learn a skill
10
7.5
Methods and study of how teachers help students learn in schools and colleges
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8.9
A style that tries to teach a moral or practical lesson
Antonyms
How Educational
Surface Forms
Morphology
didactics = didactic (transparent) = didact + ics
The noun names the field/discipline related to the adjective 'didactic' using the productive '-ics' nominalizing pattern.
Etymology
Didactics comes from the Greek verb didaskō, which means 'to teach' and is the idea behind English words like 'teach' and 'teacher'. So, didactics is about the art and methods of teaching.