How to Use pedagogy in a Sentence

pedagogy

noun
  • 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
  • Rather than backing the same kinds of schools, same structures and pedagogy, new schooling trends are emerging.
    — Jeanne Allen, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Her decades of stage work had crystallized into a warm, knowing flex of showbiz pedagogy.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • While curriculum refers to what is taught, pedagogy is how that material is taught.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • This means that, with intention surrounding pedagogy and approach, these skills can be taught.
    — Lynette Tan, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Otero always had trouble articulating his thoughts about his work—a key part of art-school pedagogy.
    — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The battle over math pedagogy is a tale as old as multiplication tables.
    — New York Times, 4 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • Not surprisingly, there’s not a lot of research on the pedagogy of writing clearly.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • Those methods were the classroom, a pedagogy called mastery learning and one-on-one tutoring.
    — Joe Didonato, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Fourth, his pedagogy, which seems in retrospect to be central, rather than tangential, to his achievement.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Baldwin thought such racist pedagogy left Black children without a sense of identity.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Are racial health inequities mainly a legacy of medical pedagogy?
    — Ted Scheinman, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Its pedagogy suggests how the past might be reframed and made intelligible.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 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
  • Google is positioning it as vetted with pedagogy and safety experts.
    — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Of course, many of us are working on developing assignments and pedagogies to make that less tempting.
    — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 2 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Teachers need support—not just to use AI, but to shape it into something that reflects their values and pedagogy.
    — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • 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
  • The old pedagogy of British exceptionalism has a long half-life, however.
    — Philippe Sands, The New York Review of Books, 23 June 2020
  • But whether, say, jazz pedagogy proves especially valuable one day is also beside the point of studying jazz pedagogy.
    — Aaron R. Hanlon, The New Republic, 23 Oct. 2023
  • This is partly because improved pedagogy is being seen as a way to diversify the profession.
    — The Economist, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Historically, the medical record was a tool of practice and pedagogy.
    — Seth Joseph, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025

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