pedagogical

• paedagogical (British)
• pædagogical (obsolete)

From pedagogic +‎ -al.

pedagogical (comparative more pedagogical, superlative most pedagogical)

1. Of, or relating to pedagogy; teaching.

   Synonyms: didactic, pedagogic

   • 1996, William Duckworth, Sound and Light: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, page 144:

     As we look back into the early collections of qin notations, known as qinpu, we find an interesting collection of pictures in the pedagogical sections of several important qinpu.

   • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:

     The value of pedagogical material informed by objective methodological procedures developed in corpus linguistics is widely recognized.

   • 2025 September 3, Dan Mangan, “Judge voids $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze by Trump administration”, in CNBC‎^[1]:

     She also noted that the administration, in a letter in April, “specifically conditioned funding on agreeing to its ten terms, only one of which related to antisemitism, while six related to ideological and pedagogical concerns, including who may lead and teach at Harvard, who may be admitted, and what may be taught.”

2. Haughty and formal.

   Synonym: pedantic