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pedagogics

American  
[ped-uh-goj-iks, -goh-jiks] / ˌpɛd əˈgɒdʒ ɪks, -ˈgoʊ dʒɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)
  1. the science or art of teaching or education; pedagogy.


pedagogics British  
/ ˌpɛdəˈɡɒdʒɪks, -ˈɡəʊ- /

noun

  1. (functioning as singular) another word for pedagogy

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Etymology

Origin of pedagogics

First recorded in 1860–65; pedagog(y) + -ics

Example Sentences

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Scientist Julian praises grandfather's prose, while Stylist Aldous praises his pedagogics.

From Time Magazine Archive

I couple these two words advisedly, for fifty years ago, pedagogics was a form of penology—the boarding-school with its mentors, scheme of fines, repressions and disgrace!

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert

—The escape from action in an artificial absence of all events in life, which often sinks to a veritable brutalizing of man, is the distinguishing feature of all monkish pedagogics.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

This is a point of technical pedagogics or psychology.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

Education can nowhere be a question of mere pedagogics, and least of all in India.

From Indian Unrest by Chirol, Valentine, Sir