ABSTRACT
This chapter designs syntax and grammar and semantics and sense of Pedagogy. Syntax and grammar identify the words, the domains, the phenomena, the dimensions, the logic and the methodology of pedagogy. These syntaxial and grammatical components are exemplified with semantics and sense consisting of more personal, embodied and heartfelt experiences of pedagogy coming from three main resources: (1) a selection of historic and contemporary pedagogical accounts and figures, (2) resonances between Bergson's philosophy and education drawn up in the first part of the book and (3) the pedagogy of the early childhood centres in the North Italian town Reggio Emilia.
This chapter ends with an exploration of pedagogy's object of knowledge and expresses this both in its classical sense as a question of preservation and renewal of culture, values and knowledge in education and society, and in a suggested sense as concerning French philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle's (2018) notion of gentleness as a precondition for any real, becoming and free educational experiences and events to occur at all.
