pedagogy

English

Alternative forms

• paedagogy, pædagogy

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛdəˌɡɒd͡ʒi/, /ˈpɛdəˌɡɒɡi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛdəˌɡɑd͡ʒi/, /ˈpɛdəˌɡoʊd͡ʒi/
• Hyphenation: ped‧a‧go‧gy

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; an educational philosophy.
   • 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:

     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.

Usage notes

Do not confuse pedagogy (methods of teaching) with pedantry (misguided teaching).

Derived terms

• pedagogic
• pedagogical
• pedagogue
• public sphere pedagogy

Translations

profession of teaching

• Albanian: pedagogjia
• Aragonese: pedagochía f
• Armenian: մանկավարժություն (hy) (mankavaržutʻyun)
• Asturian: pedagoxía f
• Azerbaijani: pedaqoji
• Belarusian: педагогіка f (pjedahóhika)
• Breton: pedagogiezh
• Bulgarian: педагогика f (pedagogika)
• Carpathian Rusyn: педаґоґіка f (pedagogika)
• Catalan: pedagogia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教育學／教育学 (zh) (jiàoyùxué)

• Cornish: adhyskoniethel, adhyskonieth
• Czech: pedagogika (cs) f
• Danish: pædagogik (da) c
• Dutch: pedagogiek (nl), opvoedkunde (nl) f
• Esperanto: pedagogio
• Estonian: kasvatusteadus, pedagoogika
• Finnish: pedagogiikka (fi)
• French: pédagogie (fr) f
• Friulian: pedagogjie
• Galician: pedagoxía (gl) f
• Georgian: პედაგოგიკა (ṗedagogiḳa)
• German: Pädagogik (de) f
• Hungarian: pedagógia (hu)
• Icelandic: uppeldisfræði f
• Ido: pedagogio (io)
• Indonesian: pedagogi (id)
• Interlingua: pedagogia
• Irish: oideolaíocht f
• Japanese: 教育学 (ja) (kyōikugaku)
• Kazakh: педагогика (pedagogika)
• Korean: 교육학(教育學) (ko) (gyoyukhak)
• Kyrgyz: педагогика (ky) (pedagogika)
• Latvian: pedagoģija
• Luxembourgish: Pedagogik f
• Macedonian: педагогија f (pedagogija)
• Malay: pedagogi
• Maori: mahi whakaako
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pedagogikk (no) m

  Nynorsk: pedagogikk m

• Occitan: pedagogia (oc) f
• Polish: pedagogika (pl)
• Portuguese: pedagogia (pt) f, ensino (pt) m
• Russian: педаго́гика (ru) f (pedagógika)
• Scots: pedagogy
• Scottish Gaelic: teagasg m
• Serbo-Croatian: pedagògija (sh) f
• Slovak: pedagogika f
• Slovene: pedagogika f
• Spanish: pedagogía (es) f
• Swedish: pedagogik (sv) c
• Tagalog: palaaralan
• Tajik: педагогика (tg) (pedagogika)
• Thai: ครุศาสตร์ (th) (ká-rú-sàat), ศึกษาศาสตร์ (sʉ̀k-sǎa-sàat)
• Turkish: pedagoji (tr)
• Ukrainian: педагогіка f (pedahohika)
• Uzbek: pedagogika (uz)
• Vietnamese: phương pháp giáo dục
• Võro: kasvatustiidüs, pedagoogiga
• Waray-Waray: pedagohiya

activities of educating, teaching or instructing

• Arabic: مهنَة التدريس, تَعْلِيم (ar) (taʕlīm)
• Azerbaijani: pedaqoji
• Bengali: তালিম (bn) (talim)
• Bulgarian: педагогика f (pedagogika)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教學法／教学法 (zh) (jiàoxuéfǎ)

• Finnish: pedagogiikka (fi), kasvatustiede (fi)
• Icelandic: uppeldisfræði f
• Interlingua: pedagogia
• Irish: oideolaíocht f
• Maori: pūtoiako
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pedagogikk (no) m

  Nynorsk: pedagogikk m

• Portuguese: pedagogia (pt) f
• Russian: педаго́гика (ru) f (pedagógika)
• Scottish Gaelic: teagasg m
• Serbo-Croatian: pedagògija (sh) f
• Spanish: pedagogía (es) f
• Turkish: pedagoji (tr)

See also

• didactics

Scots

Etymology

From English pedagogy.

Noun

pedagogy (uncountable)

1. pedagogy