coeducationally
- adverb
- /ˌkoʊˌɛdʒʊˈkeɪʃənəli/
- The school holds classes coeducationally, allowing boys and girls to learn together.
Examples
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Of all the team sport invasion games physical educators teach, flag football can be the hardest to teach coeducationally because of its stigma as a male-appropriate game and concerns for safety and discrepant sport-related fitness levels.
Academic text (2008) -
In Southern California, football was selected second out of 37 activities by ninth-grade boys; there was a 17% difference in the percentage of boys and girls who selected football as belonging in the curriculum; and football was ranked last as an activity that should be taught coeducationally (Hill & Cleven 2005).
Academic text (2008) -
In many countries, universities operate coeducationally to promote gender equality in education.
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The program was designed to teach students coeducationally, fostering collaboration between male and female classmates.
Surface Forms
Morphology
coeducationally = coeducational (transparent) = co + educate + ion + al + ly
The adverb is formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'coeducational', a regular and predictable derivation.
Etymology
The word coeducationally starts with co- meaning 'together' and comes from educate meaning 'to teach', so it describes teaching boys and girls in the same school or class.
