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the pupils. Tangible support can also help pupils solve their problems and
cope with stress. The pedagogue can do much for the pupil whether in
response to crises or everyday upsets. Support becomes tangible when con-
veyed through supportive messages and interactions that add warmth, love,
and meaning to life.
Pedagogical communication is a system to uncover the maximum unused
reserves in the personality of the pupil and the pedagogue— physiological,
social and psychological. Each of these are of equal significance—the behav-
iour of the teacher, the atmosphere he or she creates in the classes, the
contents, the message, and his or her approach to the students.

Summar y

• Pedagogic communication consists of three aspects— communicative,
interactive, and perceptive. These three aspects of communication
are a means of carrying our joint activity between the pedagogue
and the pupil. The knowledge of the laws of communication and the
development of sociability and communicativeness are particularly
important for the pedagogue because he or she can succeed only if
he or she can carry on a joint activity and establish interaction and
mutual understanding in compliance with the objectives and goals of
education; that is, if he or she manages to establish viable pedagogical
communication.
• Pedagogic communication is a system of methods intended to provide
interaction between the pedagogue and the pupil. It essentially means
an exchange of information and maintenance of mutual understand-
ing and proper relations between the pedagogue and the pupil with
the help of appropriate communicative means. For a pedagogue com-
munication basically means a process of carrying on the didactic task,
providing a socio-psychological support of the process of education
as well as facilitating interpersonal relations between the pedagogue
and the pupil for effective development of personality.
• Pedagogic communication is understood to be the system of inter-
action between the pedagogue and the pupil based on appropriate
methods and habits consisting of exchange of information, exercise
of appropriate influence on the pupil for didactic and educational
purposes, and the promotion of their mutual understanding. The ped-
agogue, thus, needs to know and understand how to initiate, organize,
and control the process.
• A classroom is not only a place for learning; it is also a place where
students learn social interaction and build social relationships and

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