What did you call me?

Nursery World, 9 December 2004

I enjoy the majority of the articles in Nursery World. However, I am becoming irritated by the increasingly frequent use of 'pedagogue' in various forms within recent issues. The Shorter Oxford Dictionary definition of pedagogue is 'a schoolmaster, teacher of preceptor, usually a hostile usage, with implications of pedantry, dogmatism or severity'.

I enjoy the majority of the articles in Nursery World. However, I am becoming irritated by the increasingly frequent use of 'pedagogue' in various forms within recent issues. The Shorter Oxford Dictionary definition of pedagogue is 'a schoolmaster, teacher of preceptor, usually a hostile usage, with implications of...

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