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pedagogy
[ped′əgōj′ē]
Etymology: Gk, pais, child, agogos, leader
the art and science of teaching children, based on a belief that the purpose of education is the transmittal of knowledge.
pedagogy [ped´ah-go″je] (pl. ped·a·go·gy)
the teaching of children; the teacher often has full responsibility for making decisions about what will be learned, how it will be learned, when it will be learned, and determining if it has been learned. See also andragogy.
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That is to say, the curriculum espoused by critical pedagogist combines traditional literacy skills with the project of developing a collective consciousness about the oppressive nature of social and cultural institutions (Freire, 1969/1973).
Does critical pedagogy work with privileged students? by Allen, Ricky Lee; Rossatto, Cesar Augusto / Teacher Education Quarterly
Invented by English mathematician and pedagogist, Caleb Gattegno (1911-1988), the geoboard was designed as a manipulative tool for teaching primary geometry in schools (Williams, 1999).
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One of the trends that is in vogue with the current generation of pedagogists is "discovery-based" or "problem-based" learning (Ritual and Stieglitz 2000; Johnson 2006), however, in science it is unrealistic to expect students to discover their way to thermodynamics, atomic theory, plate tectonics, genetics and so on (Gross et al.
Teaching geosciences in Mississippi by Dewey, Christopher; Beasley, Rodney W. / Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
 
 
 
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