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What is pedagogy? We explore some key ideas, principles and practices in the 'art and science of teaching. We also examine some of the contrasting traditions of thinking - and how these became expressed in the setting of pedagogy (concerned with the education of children) and andragogy (facilitating the learning of adults).

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Department for Children, Schools and Families - Pedagogy and practice. A series of study units illustrating the English government's preferred approach to secondary school lesson design and 'delivery'.