pedagogical

variants also pedagogic
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Recent Examples of pedagogical Educators are urged to critically evaluate these tools, prioritizing pedagogical value and student thinking over mere feature adoption. — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026 Her work examines fashion as a cultural and ideological system, with a focus on copying, repetition, and reuse as critical and pedagogical strategies to question dominant notions of originality and value. — Vogue, 30 July 2026 But many of these teachers come from graduate programs that prioritize theory over practice, and knowing various pedagogical approaches does not necessarily translate into teaching well. — Mike Goldstein, The Atlantic, 25 June 2026 In Britain between the 1940s and the 1980s, university professors, especially those from Oxford and Cambridge, were esteemed not merely for their specialist knowledge or pedagogical value but for their wider contribution to civic life. — Tim Bouverie, Air Mail, 30 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for pedagogical
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Adjective
  • The event will feature an educational component, where SNAHC’s own traditional health practitioner Sage LaPena will discuss where different elements of the meal are harvested, as well as some of their health benefits.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • This is especially true for students from educational contexts where academic writing was not part of their training.
    — Saurabh Anand, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • However, those conventions become much more meaningful when students understand the intellectual practices underneath them.
    — Saurabh Anand, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2026
  • That which enters into the experience of the masses of the people is not what the intellectual knows but what the popular leader feels.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Perhaps most consequential in this move will be the expansion of the states’ authority and responsibility for educative quality within their jurisdictions.
    — Blake D. Morant, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • While apples-to-apples comparisons aren’t possible, a look at the streaming businesses is educative for identifying longer-term trends.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025

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“Pedagogical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedagogical. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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