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say it: PED-uh-goh-jee
pedagogy is a noun meaning "the principles and methods of instruction". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the principles and methods of instruction
the profession of a teacher
“he prepared for teaching while still in college”
“pedagogy is recognized as an important profession”
the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
“he received no formal education”
“our instruction was carefully programmed”
“good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pedagogy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.