de-parochialize

English

Verb

de-parochialize (third-person singular simple present de-parochializes, present participle de-parochializing, simple past and past participle de-parochialized)

1. Alternative form of deparochialize
   • 2005, David Holmes, Communication Theory: Media, Technology and Society, page 128:

     These developments in the means of communication de-parochialize contexts by bringing them into contact with others.

   • 2010, Thomas S. Popkewitz, Fazal Rizvi, Globalization and the Study of Education, page 7:

     The chapters in this book consider some of the different paths taken in the study of globalization to de-parochialize our understanding of educational aims, processes and outcomes.

   • 2013, Joshua M. Karlip, The Tragedy of a Generation, page 155:

     In an effort to de-parochialize modern Jewish culture, participants in Russian Jewry's cultural renaissance translated large quantities of European literature into Hebrew and Yiddish.