Unteacher

Quick meaning: Unteacher is a noun meaning (derogatory) A popular teacher who focuses on fun activities but lacks pedagogical rigor.

Meaning

(derogatory) A popular teacher who focuses on fun activities but lacks pedagogical rigor.

More Meanings

1. Someone who helps others unlearn or overcome unhealthy social conditioning.
2. One who guides students in self-directed learning, a teacher involved in unschooling.

Example Sentences

If you decide to wrestle with an unteacher, consider his or her political power base.

John's unteachers ignore the letter of their target text, while fetishizing the letter of their own.

Artful teachers, in the pay of this unteacher, may do a great deal of mischief to the rising generation.

I call myself an unteacher. When you do well in my class you get a balloon that reads, " From your unteacher for being a good unstudent."

Word Forms

• unteachers

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