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paedagogy

paedagogy is the alternative form of pedagogy.

Meaning of pedagogy

Noun

pedagogy (countable and uncountable, plural pedagogies)

  1. The profession of teaching.
  2. The activities of educating, teaching or instructing.
  3. The strategies or methods of instruction; their study and development; an educational philosophy.
    • A resource that profiles the important language of secondary disciplines by adapting the methods of EAP research could therefore be very useful for such pedagogy.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary...

Forms of paedagogy

pluralpaedagogies

Questions about paedagogy

What is paedagogy the alternative form of?
Paedagogy is the alternative form of pedagogy.

Words near paedagogy in the dictionary

  1. paedagogics
  2. paedagogies
  3. paedagogism
  4. paedagogue
  5. paedagogues
  6. paedagogy
  7. paedantry
  8. paederast
  9. paederastic
  10. paederasts
  11. paederasty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paedagogy (page history and authors); pedagogy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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