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chalkfacenoun
A cliff or quarry exposing chalk, e.g. the White Cliffs of Dover
chalkfacenoun
The environment where teaching is carried out, specifically a school (a metaphor for coalface, after the chalk used on school blackboards).
chalkfacenoun
A musical concept or genre in which music is completely improvised and never played twice. Most often mixing elements of hip-hop, metal, punk and avant-garde jazz.
Etymology: This term is believed to have been coined by Prof. Ted Wragg, for his Times Educational Supplement column. At the time the term was coined, coal mining was still seen as the hardest, dirtiest, most dangerous job there was. The term must have resonated strongly with a put-upon teaching profession as it quickly came into general use.
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Chalkface
Chalkface literally means a cliff or quarry exposing chalk, e.g. the White Cliffs of Dover. To work "at the chalkface" means to work in education, specifically in a school. This term, believed to have originally been coined by Ted Wragg for his Times Educational Supplement column, should be seen as a metaphor for the coalface. At the time the term was coined, coal mining was still seen as the hardest, dirtiest, most dangerous job there was. The term appears to have resonated strongly with the teaching profession, as it quickly came into general use. In 1991, the BBC broadcast a television series called Chalkface, written by John Godber. in text books, this term appears on "becoming an effective teacher chapter one, -'the new chalkface training'-" written by Pual Stephens and Tim Crawley in 1994 which is currently used at teachers training classes. The term has also been used to describe an experimental genre of music in which lyrics and music are improvised and never played twice.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of chalkface in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of chalkface in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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