What's the difference between pedagogical and pedantic?

Pedagogical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a pedagogue; suited to, or characteristic of, a pedagogue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The size of right and left middle phalanges in the II-V fingers and the III finger have been studied in 108 pairs of monozygotic and dizygotic twins at 8--19 years of age and in 60 paris (pedagogical experiment) of separated twins (from the same pair), schoolchildren of the 2d--5th forms trained according different programs of physical culture.
  • (2) These various impairments constitute a pedagogical handicap which, even though of major severity, is not refractory to clinical treatment and educational therapy.
  • (3) Rapid advances in Information Technology in recent years have provided powerful computers and software that can be innovatively applied to create powerful pedagogical courseware that go beyond what precursors like the PLATO project could do on the mainframes of yesteryear.
  • (4) Reference to various basic clinical factors will be made here toward proposing certain conceptual, tactical and pedagogical modifications to this paradigm.
  • (5) The faculty members were initially given a questionnaire asking them to self-report in four categories: interactive skills; knowledge or abilities they considered important for students to develop; factors that influenced their curriculum development; and sources from which they sought pedagogical assistance.
  • (6) They could continue the relation with the school but farther help on the pedagogic level, which showed that they could share.
  • (7) Pedagogic help should not terminate with the end of official schooling, but should remain a permanent support which should be continuously improved.
  • (8) The programs described are based on a participant-centered pedagogical method, with the objective to make the individual autonomous and responsible for the management of his health.
  • (9) Laterality is a hybrid phenomenon which concerns not only pedagogics but also many other fields, such as medicine, transport, sport and art.
  • (10) The results point out the need for education in patient-centred pedagogics.
  • (11) The cooperation with the school in particular should take into account the risks arising from any confusion between therapeutic and pedagogic responsibilities.
  • (12) This article refers more specifically to the teaching functions of INTA and describes its undergraduate and graduate activities and pedagogical training for nutrition instructors.
  • (13) The author feels that, apart from considerations on social justice, the right road to the improvement of instruction in this field is essentially to choose the best pedagogical technology for the type of student to which it is addressed.
  • (14) The results of the analysis of somatic disturbances (weight loss, anomalous sexual maturation), psychological aspects (cognitive level, organization of the personality), environmental implications (familial, social and school adjustment; mother-child relationship; pedagogic modalities; social and economic factors) are reported.
  • (15) In this paper a combination of individual- and group-training with unassertive children is described with strongly deprived children from a daily pedagogical institute.
  • (16) There are advantages and disadvantages to this pedagogical method, but we believe that the former outweigh the latter.
  • (17) These rehabilitation procedures yielded the best results in pedagogically trained children who, at the age of 9 years, went to normal schools or schools for children with hearing loss of I-IV degree.
  • (18) These disturbances may be relieved through the assistance at all levels which interfere in their origin and their persistence (emotional, neurologic, pedagogic or pertaining to family).
  • (19) Removing the novel "because some object to, or disapprove of, its content violates basic constitutional principles", they say, and under the First Amendment, "school officials have much wider discretion to include material that has pedagogical value than to exclude it".
  • (20) Which disciplines should be linked for pedagogic efficiency and relevance?

Pedantic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Pedantical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Let me be one of 1,057 well-read pedants to let you know that Giovani dos Santos, 'the Mexican Ronaldinho' (last week's O Fiverão ) actually plays for Villarreal and not Málaga.
  • (2) 7.53pm BST Pedant repellant Style guide: GEORGE: What is Holland?
  • (3) He said localness remained key to small stations' success, but added that regulation should move away from "outdated" and "pedantic" box-ticking to focus on output rather than input.
  • (4) The enigmatic patience of the sentences, the pedantic syntax, the peculiar antiquity of the diction, the strange recessed distance of the writing, in which everything seems milky and sub-aqueous, just beyond reach – all of this gives Sebald his particular flavour, so that sometimes it seems that we are reading not a particular writer but an emanation of literature.
  • (5) For pedants and non-pedants it’s the ultimate horror.
  • (6) "He found for Max Mosley because he had not engaged in a 'sick Nazi orgy' as the News of the World claimed, though for the life of me that seems an almost surreally pedantic logic as some of the participants were dressed in military-style uniform," Dacre added.
  • (7) Although some find the distinction pedantic, it is useful to reserve the term hypoglycaemia for this biochemical state, and neuroglycopenia for the clinical syndrome that results.
  • (8) They thought he was cool, smart without being pedantic, and seemed to have his act together.
  • (9) The Finns were pretty cool; the Swedes, pedantic but resigned; the Danes did get a little fighty; the Icelanders were irritated not to have been given more attention; but the Norwegians, boy, they were not happy.
  • (10) Photograph: Alamy If you aren’t put off by a high density of boutique moustaches and pedantic coffee connoisseurs, Stoneybatter is a worthwhile deviation from Temple Bar, Grafton Street and the other well-trodden tourist zones.
  • (11) 6.40pm BST An early email from Zachary Gomperts-Mitchelson "Now, I know you said arguably, and trying, admittedly not that hard, to avoid sounding like an insufferable pedant, but surly the biggest game in Dortmund's history has got to be the Champions League final against Juventus that they won in 1996?"
  • (12) 9 None sense A sure sign of a pedant is that, under the impression that none is an abbreviation of not one, they will insist on saying things like "none of them has turned up".
  • (13) "Let me completely fail to avoid sounding like an insufferable pedant by saying that Zachary Gomperts-Mitchelson succintly said what we were all thinking, except that Dortmund won the Champions' League in 1997, not 1996," he writes.
  • (14) Furthermore, the ministerial code is pedantically explicit about the minister's total accountability for all the special adviser's actions.
  • (15) 28 mins: Look at the pedantic dolts I have to deal with: "So which bit of '4 mins ... 7mins ... 10 mins' is 'minute-by-minute' commentary, exactly?"
  • (16) There are visitors, presents, pedantic calls to NHS Direct – fatherhood's getting started!
  • (17) The magistrate, who paid “pedantic” and “meticulous” attention to detail, had definitely ordered weekend-only access, Treverton said.
  • (18) What made their embarrassment so irresistible to the more pedantic of their fellow engineers, who rushed in to make judgments about what had happened, was that they seemed to have brought it on themselves.
  • (19) The particle "up" is an intransitive preposition and does not require an object, so even the most pedantic of pedants would have no objection to a phrase like "This is pedantry with which I will not put up."
  • (20) When I’ve said this before on Twitter, people get into a pedantic spin about whether or not Jews are a race or a religion, but that’s irrelevant: they are considered a race by racists.

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