pedagogics
- noun
- /ˌpɛdəˈɡɑdʒɪks/
- Specialized
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pedagogía
- The university offers courses in pedagogics to prepare future teachers for their roles.
Examples
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Pedagogics focuses on effective strategies to enhance student learning in the classroom.
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The topic of person-forming raises questions relating to issues of a more general nature; e.g., individualism and Western conceptions of the person, ideas about the nation-state and national identity, and conceptions about learning and the world of pedagogics.
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The development of expertise takes more than exposure to new ideas, new contents, and pedagogics.
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That summer, they went to study with the Progressive theoretician Francis W. Parker at the Cook County Normal School in Chicago, where he was developing his Theory of Concentration, later published in Talks on Pedagogics (1894).
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As I examined the operational arts curriculum—the actual curriculum as it is going on in the classroom in terms of contents, pedagogics, and evaluation practices—I found that arts instruction can be categorized into distinct types, each with its set of educational beliefs about the nature of the arts, and each with its distinct educational goals.
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Many educators study pedagogics to understand how students learn best.
Synonyms
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Methods and study of how teachers help students learn in schools and colleges
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pedagogics comes from Greek parts paid- meaning 'child' and agogos meaning 'leader' or 'guide', and it shares the same root as pedagogy. So pedagogics is the study of how to lead and teach, especially with children, which is why it means the science or methods of teaching.