We Will Teach You the History of Pedagogy

Since in Greek agogos means "leader", a paidagogos was a slave who led boys to school and back, but also taught them manners and tutored them after school. In time, pedagogue came to mean simply "teacher;" today the word has an old-fashioned ring to it, so it often means a stuffy, boring teacher. The word pedagogy, though, is still widely used, and often means simply "teaching". And pedagogic training is what everyone majoring in education receives.

Examples of pedagogy in a Sentence

Some of the presentations, a few too many for comfort, lapsed into the familiar contortions of modern pedagogy. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 14 & 21 July 2003 The idea that pedagogy should be judged according to race is absurd on its face, but the fact that they saw their relationship with me and with the school itself in those terms should have given me greater pause than it did. — Gerald Early, Lure and Loathing, 1993 Since no textbooks existed, the professor refused to profess, knowing no more than his students, and the students read what they pleased and compared their results. As pedagogy, nothing could be more triumphant. — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907

Recent Examples on the Web Once again, Columbia and universities like it are acting like a superspreader event of critical pedagogy and other radical ideas. — Garion Frankel, National Review, 5 Mar. 2022 Eden, who lives in Virginia, similarly claimed CRT, through activism by teachers, is present in practices like culturally relevant pedagogy. — Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al, 3 Feb. 2022 The Souls of Black Folk, his work of appeal on behalf of Black Americans living under the long shadow of a Jim Crow society, is a multi-genre text that draws on music, economics, labor analysis, social history, and pedagogy. — Imani Perry, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022 The itinerant Masterclass program has continued to evolve over the years, with EMC regularly updating its curriculum and pedagogy, always fostering a mentor-style experience rather than pushing a teacher-student dynamic. — Jamie Lang, Variety, 7 Feb. 2022 His pedagogy aims for something more intangible, nurturing a childlike spirit, a sense of play onstage. — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022 Da Silva said hooks built an immense legacy around critical pedagogy, love, feminist theory, cultural and art criticism, and several other themes that cut across her body of work. — NBC News, 17 Dec. 2021 In future works, hooks continued to explore intersectional issues of race, feminism, and oppression, as well as penning books on pedagogy and how to better teach and approach these issues in the classroom. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2021 Montessori’s point about discipline being inseparable from pedagogy is persuasive. — Rivka Galchen, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022

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