pedagogic

Of classroom instruction

Pedagogic means relating to teaching or education.

The word describes methods, approaches, or qualities connected to instruction: pedagogic techniques, pedagogic philosophy.

It carries a slightly formal or academic tone, often appearing in discussions of educational theory rather than everyday conversation about teachers and classrooms.

Pedagogical is the more common variant.

teaching

instruction

Guidance for action

lecturing · guiding · educating · facilitation · classroom · lesson · demonstration · explanation · scaffolding · modeling

methodology

heuristic

Practical solving shortcut

inquiry-based · project-based · collaborative · discovery · rote · catechism · dialectic · expository · inductive · deductive

theory

epistemology

Theory of knowledge

constructivism · learning styles · multiple intelligences · metacognition · schema · transfer · motivation

academic

teacher training

Education for future educators

syllabus · learning objectives · classroom management · practicum · student teaching

Opposites
educational purpose

pedagogicrecreational

Related to enjoyment activities

diversionary · frivolous · playful · entertaining · ludic

information transmission

pedagogicuninformative

Conveying no knowledge

uninstructive · unenlightening · confusing · obfuscating · misleading

formality of instruction

pedagogicautodidactic

Learning independently, without instruction

self-taught · unstructured · informal · unsystematic · experiential

Family

pedagogy, pedagogue, pedagogical, pedagogics, pedagogically

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