Learnification
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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