Search Result for "pedagogy":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1. the principles and methods of instruction;
[syn: teaching method, pedagogics, pedagogy]
2. the profession of a teacher;
- Example: "he prepared for teaching while still in college"
- Example: "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"
[syn: teaching, instruction, pedagogy]
3. the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill;
- Example: "he received no formal education"
- Example: "our instruction was carefully programmed"
- Example: "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"
[syn: education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pedagogy \Ped"a*go`gy\, n. [Gr. paidagwgi`a: cf. F. p['e]dagogie.] Pedagogics; pedagogism. --South. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "pedagogy": catechization, coaching, didactics, direction, edification, education, enlightenment, guidance, illumination, information, instruction, pedagogics, private teaching, programmed instruction, reeducation, schooling, self-instruction, self-teaching, spoon-feeding, teaching, tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship
