pedagogist

[ ped-uh-goj-ist, -goh-jist ]

noun

1. an expert in the theory and practice of education.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pedagogist¹

First recorded in 1840–45; pedagog(y) ( def ) + -ist ( def )

Example Sentences

She began playing violin at age 3, and received instruction in Seattle from renowned violin pedagogist Margaret Pressley.

From Seattle Times

This is education as the practice of freedom, as famed critical pedagogist Paulo Friere puts it, and it means implementing practices that both challenge curricular and pedagogical biases that reinforce systems of domination like racism and sexism while simultaneously creating innovative ways to teach diverse groups of students.

From Salon

The ideal of the average pedagogist is not a complete, well-rounded, original being; rather does he seek that the result of his art of pedagogy shall be automatons of flesh and blood, to best fit into the treadmill of society and the emptiness and dulness of our lives.

From Project Gutenberg

If the mental process of Herbart's four periods is to come naturally, it would be essential that great interest in the object should exist; it is interest which would keep the mind amused, or, as the famous pedagogist would say, plunged in the idea, and would maintain it in a system nevertheless embracing multilateral ideas; and hence it is necessary that "interest" should be awakened and should persist in all instruction.

From Project Gutenberg

As a pendant to this old-fashioned lesson witnessed by Tolstoy in an elementary school in Germany, we may cite the following lesson recently set forth by a distinguished French pedagogist and philosopher, whose text-books are classics in the schools of his own country and in those of many foreign lands, and are also in use in the teachers' training colleges in Italy.

From Project Gutenberg