Pedagogy Meaning
/ˈpɛdəˌɡɒd͡ʒi/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe profession of teaching.
nounThe activities of educating, teaching or instructing.
Sentence Examples
I know nothing about pedagogy.
Teaching everything at once is bad pedagogy.
Our goal is the realization of modern principles of pedagogy.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Modern ____ emphasizes active student participation instead of teachers talking all the time.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Her research focused on ____ in early childhood education and the role of play in learning.
Word Origin & History
From Middle French pédagogie, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγία (paidagōgía). By surface analysis, ped- (“child”) + -agogy.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:
"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 26, Haibo Shen, “JIĀO/JIÀO 教 Chinese bilingual doctoral researchers to theorise translingually: A pedagogy for intercultural doctoral education”, in Linguistics and Education, volume 77, →DOI:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Modern ____ emphasizes active student participation instead of teachers talking all the time.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Her research focused on ____ in early childhood education and the role of play in learning.