What does educational mean?

Definitions for educational
ˌɛdʒ ʊˈkeɪ ʃə nled·u·ca·tion·al

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. educationaladjective

    relating to the process of education

    "educational psychology"

  2. educationaladjective

    providing knowledge

    "an educational film"

Wiktionary

  1. educationalnoun

    A free (or low cost) trip for travel consultants, provided by a travel operator or airline as a means of promoting their service. A fam trip

  2. educationaladjective

    Of, or relating to education.

    A school is an educational establishment.

  3. educationaladjective

    Instructive, or helping to educate.

    They were shown an educational film about VD.

Wikipedia

  1. Educational

    Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, non-formal, and informal education. Formal education takes place in education and training institutions, is usually structured by curricular aims and objectives, and learning is typically guided by a teacher. In most regions, formal education is compulsory up to a certain age and commonly divided into educational stages such as kindergarten, primary school and secondary school. Nonformal education occurs as addition or alternative to formal education. It may be structured according to educational arrangements, but in a more flexible manner, and usually takes place in community-based, workplace-based or civil society-based settings. Lastly, informal education occurs in daily life, in the family, any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational, whether unintentional or intentional. In practice there is a continuum from the highly formalized to the highly informalized, and informal learning can occur in all three settings. For instance, homeschooling can be classified as nonformal or informal, depending upon the structure. Regardless of setting, educational methods include teaching, training, storytelling, discussion, and directed research. The methodology of teaching is called pedagogy. Education is supported by a variety of different philosophies, theories and empirical research agendas. There are movements for education reforms, such as for improving quality and efficiency of education towards relevance in students' lives and efficient problem solving in modern or future society at large, or for evidence-based education methodologies. A right to education has been recognized by some governments and the United Nations. For example, 24 January is the International Day of Education. At UN - level, several observance years and decades have been dedicated to education, such as 1970 International Education Year. Education is also one of the 17 Global Goals, where global initiatives aim at achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4, which promotes quality education for all.

ChatGPT

  1. educational

    Educational refers to anything related to the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, or habits through teaching, training, or research. It can be associated with formal or informal learning methods such as schooling, training programs, or self-study. It may also relate to materials or activities designed to instruct or impart knowledge, especially in a school or university setting.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Educationaladjective

    of or pertaining to education

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'educational' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1742

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'educational' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3139

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'educational' in Adjectives Frequency: #231

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of educational in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of educational in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of educational in a Sentence

  1. John Dewey:

    It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.

  2. Jessica Vaughan:

    Our student was actually in a METS [ Multidisciplinary Educational Training and Support ] Program for English learners and that is a program we have across the system, and so, it is not a matter of what grade they were in, but the student was in a program for English learners. some have severe mental health problems resulting from broken families or parental neglect, exposure to violence in their home country, and a traumatic experience coming here illegally.

  3. Maaroof Fakhri:

    VR, over the last 30 years, has become more cost effective, and as a result easier to scale, now, that technology is enabling more interesting educational tools to be developed.

  4. Orla Doyle:

    Families with higher incomes are able to provide a cognitively stimulating environment for their children as they can purchase educational toys, books, and offer variety in the child’s life such as bringing them to museums, as well as purchasing better quality food which will also help their development, however, income is also a marker for underlying characteristics within the family.

  5. Miguel Cardona:

    Our hardest and most important work lies ahead. It'll be what we're judged against, and I want to be very, very clear: as educators and leaders, we're either closing educational opportunity gaps or making them worse with the decisions we're going to make in the next coming months and years.

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