experimentalism
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- noun
- /ˌɛkspəˈrɪmənˌtælɪzəm/
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experimentalismo
- In modern education, experimentalism encourages students to explore through hands-on activities.
- the philosophy of experimentalism
Examples
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Dewey's philosophical school of thought stressed experimentalism whereby one cannot know reality as it truly is, but one can experience what is out there.
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Experimentalism then emphasizes that problem solving is the heart of the curriculum.
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"Change" is a key concept of experimentalism.
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Second, after Extra, all three continued in Hollywood careers in which experimentalism was industrialized in various ways.
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Dewey's philosophy of experimentalism is also called instrumentalism.
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A teacher emphasizing experimentalism as a philosophy of teaching and learning may well emphasize generalizations such as the following:
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One was the virtue of experimentalism: the willingness to reflect critically on our values and discard those that no longer serve the goals they embody.
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Thus, feminists do not have to choose between feminism and experimentalism or postmodernism as if they were unified players in a contest.
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What follows is a discussion of feminist ethnography as an emergent response to the masculine bias of experimentalism.
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In a sense, then, Lincoln saw a perpetuation of the spirit of experimentalism and of experimental urgency as a part of any effort to perpetuate our political institutions.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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Trying new ideas or methods to see if they work
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A view that we learn mainly from experience, observation, and experiments
Antonyms
How Experimental
Surface Forms
Morphology
experimentalism = experimental (transparent) = experiment + al + ism
Formed by adding the productive noun-forming suffix '-ism' to the clear adjective 'experimental', yielding a doctrine/practice term.
Etymology
The word experimentalism comes from experiment, which comes from an old word meaning 'to try', and the ending -ism means 'belief' or 'system'. So, experimentalism is the habit or belief of 'trying' new ideas and methods to find what works.