edumyth

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noun

Pseudoscientific belief about education, pedagogy, or learning without an empirical basis.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounedumyth (plural edumyths)

plural edumyths

  1. 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 2003
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    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 34

    Similarly 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, →ISBN

    Perhaps 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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APA

edumyth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edumyth

MLA

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Chicago

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