didactics

British

/ dɪˈdæktɪks /

noun

(functioning as singular) the art or science of teaching

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Working with the renowned art historian and curator Lowery Stokes Sims, the guards have not only chosen the pieces, but also contributed to research, design, didactics, content for the accompanying catalogue and public programs.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2022

Mini-botanical gardens — complete with didactics that explain what every plant is and where it comes from — hug the southeastern edge of the lake.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022

This basic indecisiveness about our shared biomedical project feeds continued didactics from both sides.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2017

Fast-forward 15-odd years and my friend, having earned a maths PhD, has just given up a lucrative consulting job to work in the didactics of mathematics.

From Nature • Dec. 6, 2016

All theory of education, all didactics, all psychology were eliminated.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

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