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. Mike Peterson:

    Our mission at Douglas County is to set the educational foundation that allows each student to achieve his or her individual potential, that was really the focus, just to reaffirm to say anything we do under equity falls under our larger mission and vision as a district, and that's really centered around individual success.

  2. Cora Breuner:

    We see so many of our high school students spending over four, five, six hours per day on non-educational screen time.

  3. Josef Schuster:

    I’m afraid that anti-Americanism, anti-Israel sentiment, and anti-Semitism will be on the rise, we have very limited educational tools to change that. Syria is one of the most anti-Israel countries, influenced by Iran and helped by Hezbollah.

  4. President Tayyip Erdogan:

    If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.

  5. Anthony Fauci:

    The educational community, the teachers and the teams associated with education are such an absolutely critical part of society in general, but also a very critical part of our response to this outbreak -- because we're not going to get back to normal until we get the children back in school.

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