Meanings
plural edumyths
- educationPseudoscientific belief about education, pedagogy, or learning without an empirical basis.
FOREWORD: EDUMYTHS AND THE SLEEP OF REASON
2019 September 7, Craig Barton, Tom Bennett, The researchED Guide to Education Myths: An evidence-informed guide for teachers, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 20033 more examples
The authors discuss some of the edu-myths of the time and spend considerable effort debunking them. That the myths themselves sound so familiar in 34 The Attack on Nova Scotia Schools.
2020 April 7, Grant Frost, The Attack on Nova Scotia Schools: The Story Behind 25 Years of Tumultuous Change, Formac Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 34Similarly discredited is the 'edumyth' that the brain's structure is defined by infancy or by adolescence.
2021 June 21, Lynne Hunt, Denise Chalmers, University Teaching in Focus: A Learning-centred Approach, Routledge, →ISBNPerhaps teachers have their own set of 'edumyths', beliefs which many (including neuroscientists) might hold but which are not true of education.
2022 November 15, Cathy Rogers, Michael S. C. Thomas, Educational Neuroscience: The Basics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN
Origin
Translations
Catalan edumite
- edumitepseudoscientific belief about education
Portuguese edumito
- edumitopseudoscientific belief about education
Spanish edumito
- edumitopseudoscientific belief about education
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