How to Use pedagogy in a Sentence

pedagogy

noun
  • That's the downside of being a student of that pedagogy.
    Natalie Weiner, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Lars Vogt lives on much more than in his recordings or his pedagogy.
    Max Norman, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Trustees thought more about programs and pedagogy and less about money.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 5 Feb. 2022
  • But reasons for switching to tau are deeply rooted in pedagogy as well.
    Randyn Charles Bartholomew, Scientific American, 25 June 2014
  • The teacher in her is staggered by the lack of actual pedagogy that takes place in studio classes.
    Kathleen Hirsch, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
  • The same proved true for his pedagogy: Sometimes the problem with a teacher can become his gift.
    New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Rather than backing the same kinds of schools, same structures and pedagogy, new schooling trends are emerging.
    Jeanne Allen, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
  • One falls for the persona, in other words, not really the pedagogy, and there seems to be one for everybody.
    New York Times, 10 May 2021
  • The initial assessment of how teachers and students are doing with this brave new pedagogy is due later this year.
    David Holahan, courant.com, 11 July 2019
  • The claim that pedagogy should incorporate examples from the daily lives of all kinds of students is a reasonable one.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Not surprisingly, there’s not a lot of research on the pedagogy of writing clearly.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • So the lack of attention in a general way to matters of both race and poverty is pretty endemic to this area of legal pedagogy.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The battle over math pedagogy is a tale as old as multiplication tables.
    New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • In her junior year, Johnson took her first course in dance pedagogy, learning about the methods of teaching dance.
    Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Teachers didn’t have the right training for online instruction, which has a unique pedagogy and best practices.
    Katherine Reynolds Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2023
  • Those methods were the classroom, a pedagogy called mastery learning and one-on-one tutoring.
    Joe Didonato, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Its pedagogy suggests how the past might be reframed and made intelligible.
    Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Otero always had trouble articulating his thoughts about his work—a key part of art-school pedagogy.
    Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Are racial health inequities mainly a legacy of medical pedagogy?
    Ted Scheinman, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Although the arcs of his stories may tend toward a kind of sentimental pedagogy, his sentences, in the main, scrupulously avoid it.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • This is partly because improved pedagogy is being seen as a way to diversify the profession.
    The Economist, 18 Mar. 2021
  • But the norms of pedagogy have always regulated classroom speech: Students don’t have the right to interrupt or to go on too long or to stray from the subject.
    New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The idea that pedagogy should be judged according to race is absurd on its face, but the fact that they saw their relationship with me and with the school itself in those terms should have given me greater pause than it did.
    Gerald Early, Lure and Loathing, 1993
  • Classrooms in many parts of the world have long been victim to a pedagogy that focuses on syllabus completion and curriculum standards, rather than on what children know.
    Yamini Aiyar For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Its prime object of satire, however, is the very bedrock of the workshop’s pedagogy, the identification of artistic achievement.
    Hermione Hoby, The New Yorker, 3 July 2019
  • Now, mathematical pedagogy says talking younger children through their thoughts is also a big help.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Like Kotter, Leguizamo understands teaching as a form of stand-up, but his pedagogy is more unruly.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The old pedagogy of British exceptionalism has a long half-life, however.
    Philippe Sands, The New York Review of Books, 23 June 2020
  • This method also avoids a pitfall in conducting pedagogy: creating clones.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Roman’s pedagogy, on the other hand, is proudly egocentric.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021

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