pedagogical

English

Alternative forms

• paedagogical (British)
• pædagogical (obsolete)

Etymology

pedagogic +‎ -al

Adjective

pedagogical (comparative more pedagogical, superlative most pedagogical)

1. Of, or relating to pedagogy; teaching.

   Synonyms: didactic, pedagogic

   • 1996, William Duckworth, Sound and Light: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, page 144:

     As we look back into the early collections of qin notations, known as qinpu, we find an interesting collection of pictures in the pedagogical sections of several important qinpu.

   • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:

     The value of pedagogical material informed by objective methodological procedures developed in corpus linguistics is widely recognized.

2. Haughty and formal.

   Synonym: pedantic

Derived terms

• pedagogical dictionary
• pedagogically

Translations

of, or relating to pedagogy

• Armenian: մանկավարժական (hy) (mankavaržakan)
• Asturian: pedagóxicu
• Belarusian: педагагі́чны (pjedahahíčny)
• Catalan: pedagògic (ca)
• Czech: pedagogický (cs)
• Danish: pædagogisk
• Dutch: pedagogisch (nl)
• Esperanto: pedagogia (eo)
• Finnish: pedagoginen (fi); opetuksellinen (fi), opetusopillinen
• French: pédagogique (fr)
• Galician: pedagóxico
• German: pädagogisch (de)
• Hungarian: pedagógiai (hu)
• Interlingua: pedagogic
• Italian: pedagogico (it), didattico (it), educativo (it)
• Kazakh: педагогикалық (pedagogikalyq)
• Norman: pédagogique
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pedagogisk

  Nynorsk: pedagogisk

• Polish: pedagogiczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: pedagógico (pt)
• Russian: педагоги́ческий (ru) (pedagogíčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: pedàgoškī (sh)
• Slovak: pedagogický
• Slovene: pedagoški, pedagogičen
• Spanish: pedagógico (es)
• Swedish: pedagogisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: педагогі́чний (pedahohíčnyj)

haughty and formal

• Finnish: oppimestarimainen, ylimielinen (fi), muodollinen (fi), jäykkä (fi)
• Polish: wyniosły (pl) m