Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (derogatory) A popular teacher who focuses on fun activities but lacks pedagogical rigor.
2. Someone who helps others unlearn or overcome unhealthy social conditioning.
3. One who guides students in self-directed learning, a teacher involved in unschooling.

Example Sentences

“Dawson the Doubter,” he calls himself; by this epithet we understand he takes pride in being known — that is a very good quality for an Un'''teacher, scarcely a recommendation for a teacher .

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

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

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

But I love my unteachers — the feminist thinkers and writers and talkers and poets and artists and singers and critics and friends, from Wollstonecraft and Woolf through the furies and glories of the seventies and eighties […]

An un-teacher, hopefully—and it is a difficult task that I embark upon, playfully— an un-teacher, hopefully, lets you lead yourselves toward the freedom of your being.

Plus there are scores of people like us (The Minimalists) -- people who've rejected the system and aligned their lives with their values and beliefs-- who function not as teachers, but as unteachers, helping people unlearn the bullshit

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."

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