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transmissionism

transmissionism noun: a teaching style focused on transmitting facts without regard to the individual student.

Noun

transmissionism (uncountable)

  1. A teaching style focused on transmitting facts without regard to the individual student.
    • Teaching and learning methods were therefore forced to perpetuate transmissionism and traditional assessment approaches, given that attention to the individual was completely out of question.2010, Valerie Pellatt, Kate Griffiths, Shao-Chuan Wu, Teaching and Testing Interpreting and Translating, page 156

Origin of transmissionism

From transmission + -ism.

Questions about transmissionism

What does transmissionism mean?
Transmissionism means a teaching style focused on transmitting facts without regard to the individual student.
What part of speech is transmissionism?
Transmissionism is a noun.

Words near transmissionism in the dictionary

  1. transmission times
  2. transmission tower
  3. transmission towers
  4. transmissional
  5. transmissioned
  6. transmissionism
  7. transmissionist
  8. transmissionists
  9. transmissionless
  10. transmissions
  11. transmissive

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