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learnification

noun
/ˌlɜː(ɹ)nəfəˈkeɪʃən/

Etymology

From learn + -ification. Coined by Dutch educational theorist Gert Biesta an article published in a 2009 journal volume.

  1. inherited from *lizaną✻
  2. inherited from *liʀnōn✻
  3. inherited from leornian — “to learn", rarely also, "to teach”
  4. inherited from lernen — “to learn", also, "to teach"”
  5. suffixed as learnification — “learn + ification”

Definitions

  1. The shift in discourses around and understandings of education to focus entirely or…

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

    • 'Learnification' appears to reduce teachers to facilitators of learning, competent practitioners or at worst 'deliverers' of the curriculum.
    • Pearson's business motto is 'Always Learning', which plays well with the contemporary moment of learnification.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for learnification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA