Learnification

Quick meaning: Learnification is a noun meaning (education, derogatory) The shift in discourses around and understandings of education to focus entirely or almost entirely on learning.

Meaning

(education, derogatory) The shift in discourses around and understandings of education to focus entirely or almost entirely on learning.

Example Sentences

Pearson's business motto is 'Always Learning', which plays well with the contemporary moment of learnification.

'Learnification' appears to reduce teachers to facilitators of learning, competent practitioners or at worst 'deliverers' of the curriculum.

The learnification in SEL is evident in its claimed benefits for cognitive outcomes and achievement gains rather than personal health or societal well-being.

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include educationalization, dumbification, studentification, ethification, learning, sissyfication.

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