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educationist

educationist

1 7.0
A person who studies and improves how people are taught in schools
  • noun
  • /ˌɛdʒʊˈkeɪʃənɪst/
  • UK
translation icon : educador
  • Its President is Mr. Kuang Yaming, the Honorary President of Nanjing University and a well-known educationist.

Examples

  • Referring to them as "educationists" who formed an "interlocking directorate," he accused them of establishing and reinforcing standards for teacher education that heavily emphasized pedagogical methods and were very weak on content.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Recent years have witnessed a growing interest and concern among educationists, psychologists, philosophers, and theologians in studying morality and moral development.

    Academic text (2012)
  • There is no body of evidence acceptable to most educationists to support this assumption, and it may well be ill-founded.

    Academic text (2008)
  • My professional background is as an educationist and systemic counselor in Youth Welfare in Germany, and I have had clients who needed help with parenting only.

    Blog text (25)
  • Instructors, educationists, and teachers can benefit from such study to share their understanding about the relationship between entrepreneurship education and EIs.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Smith cautioned, "Some educationists are also beginning to think about the precedent being set, which is becoming an unquestioned practice, of permitting uncertified artists to teach in the schools at a time when school populations and budgets are shrinking."

    Academic text (1999)
  • Many educationists are advocating for a more holistic approach to teaching that includes emotional intelligence.

  • In her talk, the educationist emphasized the importance of creativity in developing effective learning strategies.

  • Educationists often engage in research to improve teaching practices and educational policies for better student outcomes.

Synonyms

educationalist
vseducationist
  • UK
1 6.8

A person who studies and works to improve how teachers teach and how students learn

focuses on theory and principles rather than classroom practice

How Expert

expert
3.2
educator
164 3.0
educationist
  • UK
1 7.0
tutor
99 1.8
teacher
1.0

Surface Forms

educationist singular
educationists plural

Morphology

educationist = education (transparent) = education + ist

The agentive suffix '-ist' added to the noun 'education' yields a straightforward meaning 'a person concerned with education'; the formation follows standard English patterns.

Etymology

The word educationist comes from education, the same root as educate, which comes from the Latin educare meaning 'to bring up', plus the ending -ist meaning 'a person who does'. So an educationist is someone who studies and helps improve how people are taught, an expert in teaching and school methods.