didacticsn.
/dʌɪˈdaktɪks/, /dᵻˈdaktɪks/, U.S. /dᵻˈdæktɪks/, /daɪˈdæktɪks/ The science, art, or practice of teaching.
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didactics1660
pedagogics1798
schoolcraft1834
pedagogic1864
1660 C. Wase Methodi Practicæ Specimen Ep. to Rdr. sig. A4v I have herein asserted that freedom to Grammar, which Writers of other Arts take to themselves, and Comenius the great advancer of Didacticks does ordinarily challenge.
1758 Crit. Rev. Dec. 439 Poetry has been successfully called in to smooth the rugged path of didactics.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 36 Didactics, driven Against the heels of what the master said.
1860 R. W. Emerson Considerations in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 215 Life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics.
1881 J. G. Fitch Lect. Teaching ii. 36 The art of teaching, or Didactics as we may for convenience call it, falls under two heads.
1907 School Rev. 15 108 County certificates in all states include some test on the theory and art of teaching, or didactics, as it is frequently called.
1993 B. Cornu in D. L. Ferguson Adv. Educ. Technol. for Math. & Sci. ii. 698 Didactics of mathematics studies the pupils' acquisition of mathematical knowledge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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