What do you feel in your body when you see this: παιδαγωγικός? When you encounter a foreign word, do you have a bodily reaction? How about when you encounter a word you don’t know in English? What if you are reading out loud in a group and stumble over a new word? How does that make you feel? Do you feel any shame when it is discovered that you don’t know how to pronounce a word or what a word means? All too frequently, we feel shame when we encounter our own ignorance. I tackle that feeling here by exploring a word dear to the heart of all teachers: pedagogy.
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