Deparochialize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Deparochialize is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To make or become less parochial; to broaden into a more universal and sophisticated perspective.
Meaning
(ambitransitive) To make or become less parochial; to broaden into a more universal and sophisticated perspective.
Example Sentences
Thus, the need to deparochialize sociology is as relevant today as it was in the mid twentieth century when area studies began.
But doing so can also help deparochialize understandings, and illuminate the world, the other, and ultimately, one's own society and self.
Therefore, I shall refer to specific instances of practice drawn from various teacher education programs that have begun to deparochialize education.
Word Forms
- deparochializes
- deparochializing
- deparochialized
- de-parochialize
- deparochialise
- de-parochialise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include de-parochialize, deparochialise, de-parochialise, deprovincialize, delocalize, dislocalize.
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