This document discusses the concept of pedagogy. It defines pedagogy as the theory and practice of teaching and learning, and how social, political, and psychological factors influence this process. Pedagogy considers the interactions that take place during learning. It also discusses five principles of pedagogy: motivation, exposition, direction of activity, criticism, and inviting imitation. Additionally, it provides a brief history of how pedagogy emerged as an applied science in the late 19th century aimed at guiding the teaching and learning process.
2. Pedagogy
• What is pedagogy…??
Pedagogy , most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice
of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and
psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as an academic discipline, is the study
of how knowledge and skills are imparted in an educational context, and it considers the
interactions that take place during learning. Both the theory and practice of pedagogy vary
greatly, as they reflect different social, political, and cultural contexts.
Pedagogy is often described as the act of teaching.[2] The pedagogy adopted by teachers
shapes their actions, judgments, and other teaching strategies by taking into consideration
theories of learning, understandings of students and their needs, and the backgrounds and
interests of individual students.
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4. Five principal of pedagogy
• Motivation;
• exposition;
• direction of activity;
• criticism;
• inviting imitation.
5. Motivation
Student motivation is mainly reliant on
the teachers' personality and their ability
to develop and maintain a fruitful
relationship. This can happen by
recognising the student's needs, interests
and experiences and framing the learning
for each learner.
6. Exposition
• Good exposition requires an ability at public performance combined with good
subject knowledge, good preparation and often good supporting props. Exposition is
easy to do badly: hard to do well..
• It is not essential that exposition is managed solely by the classroom teacher: online
video delivered by e.g. the Khan Academy may provide a useful supplement to
classroom exposition, especially as online video can be accessed anytime, anywhere
and is likely to be of much higher quality than classroom exposition. That at least is
the vision of the flipped classroom.
7. Directions to activities
As “we learn by doing”, so good instruction must rely heavily
on activity. Pete Bell dislikes the term “direction”, considering
it too “command and control”—so let me break this down
into its constituent parts so we can at least agree what it is we
are talking about.
8. History of pedagogy
• At the end of the 19th century, the development of such scientific fields as
sociology and psychology is accompanied by the emergence of pedagogy as
an applied science,” that is, it starts to be viewed as a true science. Pedagogy
is now treated as a science with the understanding that its ultimate objective,
as in the other cases, is not so much to describe or explain but instead to
guide the process of teaching and learning. That is, it’s a field of science
that just might to teach us how to teach. It’s no coincidence that we’ve used
the subjunctive mood here, since pedagogy – as the science of teaching and
learning – is not a fully-formed discipline, thereby leaving room for other
educational sciences, a plural science. It became clear over time that the
exotic science known as “Pedagogy” could not be soluble there.