edumyth
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]edumyth (plural edumyths)
- (education, psychology) Pseudoscientific belief about education, pedagogy, or learning without an empirical basis.
- 2019 September 7, Craig Barton, Tom Bennett, The researchED Guide to Education Myths: An evidence-informed guide for teachers, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 2003:
- FOREWORD: EDUMYTHS AND THE SLEEP OF REASON
- 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:
- 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.
- 2021 June 21, Lynne Hunt, Denise Chalmers, University Teaching in Focus: A Learning-centred Approach, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Similarly discredited is the 'edumyth' that the brain's structure is defined by infancy or by adolescence.
- 2022 November 15, Cathy Rogers, Michael S. C. Thomas, Educational Neuroscience: The Basics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
- Perhaps teachers have their own set of 'edumyths', beliefs which many (including neuroscientists) might hold but which are not true of education.