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pedagogy

Syllables: ped·a·go·gy/ˈpɛdəˌɡɒd͡ʒi/US/ˈpɛdəˌɡɑd͡ʒi/

pedagogy noun: the profession of teaching.

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...
    • To explore effective pedagogies to motivate these bilingual doctoral researchers to theorise translingually, this paper draws upon methodologies about translingualism and intercultural doctoral education to dispel the recurrent doubts raised by these bilingual doctoral researchers.2023 October, Haibo Shen, “JIĀO/JIÀO 教 Chinese bilingual doctoral researchers to theorise translingually: A pedagogy for intercultural doctoral education”, in Linguistics and Education, volume 77...

pedagogy meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

pedagogy in Hindi

pedagogy
शिक्षाशास्त्र śikṣāśāstra

pedagogy in Marathi

अध्यापनशास्त्र, शिक्षणशास्त्र

pedagogy in Urdu

تدریسیات

pedagogy in Bengali

activities of educating, teaching or instructing
তালিম talim
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pedagogy in Telugu
బోధన శాస్త్రం, బోధనా శాస్త్రం, బోధనాశాస్త్రం
pedagogy in Malayalam
അധ്യാപനശാസ്ത്രം, അദ്ധ്യാപനശാസ്ത്രം
pedagogy in Kannada
ಶಿಕ್ಷಣಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ, ಬೋಧನ ಕಲೆ, ಅಧ್ಯಾಪನ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ, ಕಲಿಕೆಯರಿಮೆ
pedagogy in Gujarati
શિક્ષણશાસ્ત્ર, અધ્યાપનશાસ્ત્ર
pedagogy in Odia
ଶିକ୍ଷାଶାସ୍ତ୍ର
pedagogy in Nepali
शिक्षाशास्त्र, अध्यापनशास्त्र
pedagogy in Tagalog
palaaralan
pedagogy in Arabic
مهنَة التدريس, تَعْلِيم taʕlīm
pedagogy in Malay
pedagogi
pedagogy in Indonesian
pedagogi
pedagogy in Thai
ครุศาสตร์ ká-rú-sàat, ศึกษาศาสตร์ sʉ̀k-sǎa-sàat
pedagogy in Vietnamese
phương pháp giáo dục

Examples of pedagogy in a sentence

  • There's only so much density that pedagogy can penetrate.
  • Translation pedagogy is still in its infancy, and is in need of substantial theorisation.
  • The marxian legacy in critical pedagogy goes unchallenged on questions of gender.

All 18 example sentences with pedagogy

Forms of pedagogy

pluralpedagogies
alternative formpaedagogy
alternative formpædagogy
alternative formpedagoguy
alternative formpaedagoguy
alternative formpædagoguy

Plural of pedagogy: pedagogies

Origin of pedagogy

From Middle French pédagogie, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγία (paidagōgía). By surface analysis, ped- (“child”) + -agogy.

Words formed from pedagogy

Words that rhyme with pedagogy

Questions about pedagogy

What does pedagogy mean?
Pedagogy means the profession of teaching.
What is pedagogy in Hindi?
Pedagogy in Hindi is शिक्षाशास्त्र (śikṣāśāstra). See Pedagogy meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pedagogy?
Pedagogy is a noun.
How do you pronounce pedagogy?
Pedagogy is pronounced /ˈpɛdəˌɡɒd͡ʒi/ (UK).
What is the plural of pedagogy?
The plural of pedagogy is pedagogies.

Words near pedagogy in the dictionary

  1. pedagoguette
  2. pedagoguettes
  3. pedagoguing
  4. pedagoguish
  5. pedagoguishness
  6. pedagogy
  7. pedaheh
  8. pedal
  9. pedal bin
  10. pedal bins
  11. pedal boat

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pedagogy (page history and authors); शिक्षाशास्त्र (Hindi) (page history and authors); pedagogy (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pedagogy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pedagogy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pedagogy (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pedagogy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pedagogy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pedagogy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pedagogy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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