to departmentalize

Examples

• All

• First, in departmentalized settings, young children are not able to see the relatedness of subject matter nearly as well as they can in self-contained situations.

  Academic text (1994)

• Participants were taught in a departmentalized setting and divided among 12 social studies classes that met daily for 52 minutes.

  Academic text (2013)

• Why are most museums, for example, so departmentalized when that is not how we live?

  Blog text (26)

• Hence, many students, as they progress through school and enter departmentalized subject areas, have no opportunity to make connections between social studies and science.

  Academic text (2004)

• We have departmentalized our knowledge, processing it within our own little artificial domains when in reality it would be integrated and presented as a whole.

  Academic text (1990)

• Practice of a profession in the field does not come neatly departmentalized into technical theory, ethical theory, customer relations, and so on.

  Academic text (2003)

• Two problems identified with the middle schools are that many are departmentalized and teachers are responsible for a variety of subjects (Catalanello, 2003; Havner, 2003).

  Academic text (2006)

• Classroom teachers generally recognize the value of integrating rather than departmentalizing the children's education, but they need to be convinced that it is worth their time and commitment to make that belief a reality.

  Academic text (1993)

• The company decided to departmentalize its operations to improve efficiency and focus on specific tasks.

• After the merger, they chose to departmentalize the workforce, assigning clear roles and responsibilities to each department.

Synonyms

D

to divide

vsto departmentalize

680 1.1

To split something into parts or groups

refers to creating distinct units each given specific responsibilities

C

to compartmentalize

vsto departmentalize

24 7.4

To separate parts of your life, work, or feelings so they stay apart

arrange organizational units so each handles its own responsibilities

M

to modularize

vsto departmentalize

• Specialized

1 7.0

To divide something into smaller parts to make it easier to manage

focus on creating separate units that hold distinct responsibilities

S

to sectionalize

vsto departmentalize

8.0

To divide a country or city into areas for local government

organize an institution into units each with specific responsibilities

Antonyms

I

to integrate

179 4.1

To join things or ideas so they form one whole

U

to unify

65 3.7

To bring people or things together into one group

How Divided

to fragment

39 3.7

to divide

680 1.1

to departmentalize

• Specialized

1 6.4

to group

38 1.2

to unify

65 3.7

Surface Forms

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Etymology