What's the difference between pedagogical and puerile?

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?

Puerile


Definition:

  • (a.) Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dismissing the Socialists' censure motion threat as "puerile", Rajoy said: "I came [to parliament] to halt the erosion of Spain's image."
  • (2) I find them puerile and mildly offensive, but I'm not precious and accept that in predominantly male work environments, they are going to go on.
  • (3) The positive case for remaining in the EU will also be made by the Scottish National party’s foreign affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond , on Monday, when he will condemn the warnings about the risks of Brexit as, “at best puerile and at worst outlandish scaremongering”.
  • (4) Many tweeters noted the trend whereby (according to Simon Guerrero) "Channel 4 use offensive programme names but say, 'Well *they* are OK with it...'" In the Telegraph , meanwhile, the film critic Scott Jordan Harris, who is disabled, argued that "making a show just to say that disabled people should be allowed to be funny is ridiculously outdated … All [I'm Spazticus] proves is that we disabled people can be just as a mean-spirited, puerile and unfunny as the able-bodied."
  • (5) It is six years, after all, since 2009, the year in which the comedian’s blossoming career and reputation took an abrupt and savage hit, thanks to his unloved eponymous sketch show with Gavin & Stacey co-star Mathew Horne (“ puerile and excruciating ”, according to the New Statesman), a critically mauled movie, Lesbian Vampire Killers (“a witless mess”, said the Telegraph), and a calamitous performance hosting the Brit awards with Horne, which even Corden has acknowledged was “shit, because of ego”.
  • (6) When the circumstances and judgments change, it is best to admit to it and change as well.” In his first Commons confrontation with Osborne as shadow chancellor, McDonnell called the charter “a puerile political trap”.
  • (7) But Moran is far more than a puerile obsession with large underwear.
  • (8) Calling all that dangerous socialism may not resonate with most voters, so how, beyond puerile abuse, do the Tories oppose it without looking like defenders of vested interests?
  • (9) Elsewhere, Twisted Loaf are operating in comparably dark if far less puerile territory.
  • (10) The Republican convention has, thus far, been a puerile, empty spectacle featuring washed-up actors, reality TV stars, and belligerent, shameless politicians.
  • (11) But having kids reconnects you to comedy's more puerile end.
  • (12) (I've observed this on previous occasions and wonder if something puerile, something mockingly unpleasant, is written on the agency's system next to my name – the bearer of this passport has a small cock?)
  • (13) Some viewers said the commentators were "puerile and hyperactive".
  • (14) Most offensive, however, was the lameness of the entire endeavour, which would not only fail to inspire even the most puerile of would-be voters, but failed to give any reason for participating in the democratic process more sophisticated than "it might affect the amount of cinnamon in your Danish pastry" and "because you might get twatted".
  • (15) The former attorney general Dominic Grieve, who was presumably sacked in the summer reshuffle so that these plans could go ahead, is right to describe them as “almost puerile”.
  • (16) In 1984, he indulged in a riot of puerile name-calling.
  • (17) Sadowitz's impotent fury, Silverman's preppy naivety, Capurro's puerility – all of these comics reduce their status vis-a-vis the audience and ensure that the jokes bounce back on them.
  • (18) Female or male pubic hair, meager or normal axillary hair, sparse facial hair, and puerile penile type are characteristic of asthenozoospermia.
  • (19) Cheap but oddly charming for all its puerile sexism, Purple Rain was the pop sensation of the year, its soundtrack album shifting over 18 million copies and keeping 'When Doves Cry' at number one for six weeks.
  • (20) Effectively, what we are doing is turning Strasbourg into an advisory body.” Dominic Grieve , the former attorney general who was removed at the last reshuffle, told the Guardian the proposals were “almost puerile”.

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