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Title: Pedagogy

  • The word pedagogy comes from the GREEK word paidagogos in which paidos means ‘child’ and agogos means ‘lead’ ; so, it literally means “to lead the child” or “to guide the child” .
  • In ancient Greece, a slave – paidagogos- was assigned to a wealthy master՚s son, to take him to school, supervise him while in school, and carrying his equipment such as musical instruments etc.
  • Pedagogy refers to educational schools of thoughts or philosophies regarding how people learn and how teachers should assist that learning.
  • Pedagogy is the science and art of education.
  • It is the study of being a teacher. The term generally refers to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction.
  • According to Webester՚s dictionary pedagogy means “the art or profession of teaching” .

The Science of Teaching

The ways and means provided to utilize by a teacher for managing his task of teaching as smoothly and effectively as possible by involving his least efforts for drawing the maximum possible better teaching outcomes.

Pedagogy Analysis

Illustration: Pedagogy Analysis
  • Pedagogic analysis means the logical and systematically breaking up of the curriculum from the point of view of a pedagogue for the purpose of its effective transaction.
  • Pedagogical analysis of the study that attempts to scrutinize the Educational objectives, curriculum framing tasks, syllabus designing methods and classroom teaching of a particular subject.
  • Pedagogical analysis is a process that reveals the logic behind synthesizing all the educational activities into one thread and illustrates the rational base of selecting these educational activities. It makes the teacher familiar with the minute aspects of the subject and exposes him with the ways of conveying to the recipient i.e.. , the students.

Objectives of Pedagogical Analysis

  • To analyse the curricular content into meaning full components.
  • To anticipate comprehensive instructional objectives for each component,
  • To identify the prerequisites in the curricular area.
  • To anticipate strategies for continuous and comprehensive evaluation.
  • To design appropriate objective-based learning experiences for different stages and contents.

Steps of Pedagogical Analysis

  • Divide the contents of the selected unit into suitable sub-units and arrange the selected sub-units into a number of required periods.
  • Briefly write the essence of the content of the selected sub-unit.
  • Write appropriate previous knowledge required for the sub- unit.
  • Write appropriate instructional objectives to be selected for the sub-unit.

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