Learnification

//ˌlɜː(ɹ)nəfəˈkeɪʃən// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The shift in discourses around and understandings of education to focus entirely or almost entirely on learning. derogatory, uncountable

    "In the next section I explore why we seem to have lost sight of questions about values, purpose and the goodness of education. I suggest that at least part of the explanation for this has to do with what I will refer to as the 'learnification' of education: the transformation of an educational vocabulary into a language of learning."

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"In the next section I explore why we seem to have lost sight of questions about values, purpose and the goodness of education. I suggest that at least part of the explanation for this has to do with what I will refer to as the 'learnification' of education: the transformation of an educational vocabulary into a language of learning."

Etymology

From learn + -ification. Coined by Dutch educational theorist Gert Biesta an article published in a 2009 journal volume.

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