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didactics

British  
/ dɪˈdæktɪks /

noun

  1. (functioning as singular) the art or science of teaching

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Mini-botanical gardens — complete with didactics that explain what every plant is and where it comes from — hug the southeastern edge of the lake.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022

Instead, “TV Buddha” appears in a gallery crowded with other pieces, busy with didactics.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2021

This basic indecisiveness about our shared biomedical project feeds continued didactics from both sides.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2017

Fast-forward 15-odd years and my friend, having earned a maths PhD, has just given up a lucrative consulting job to work in the didactics of mathematics.

From Nature • Dec. 6, 2016

He would have greatly distressed a man like Matthew Arnold, for the only method against such didactics is to send for the boxing gloves.

From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Begbie, Harold

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