unteachers

Noun

unteacher (plural unteachers)

1. (derogatory) A popular teacher who focuses on fun activities but lacks pedagogical rigor.
   • “Dawson the Doubter,” he calls himself; by this epithet we understand he takes pride in being known — that is a very good quality for an Unteacher, scarcely a recommendation for a teacher .1856, The Lamps of the Temple, page 452
2. Someone who helps others unlearn or overcome unhealthy social conditioning.
   • But I love my unteachers — the feminist thinkers and writers and talkers and poets and artists and singers and critics and friends, from Wollstonecraft and Woolf through the furies and glories of the seventies and eighties […]1995, Corinna S. Hasbach, The House that Feminist Imagination Builds
3. One who guides students in self-directed learning, a teacher involved in unschooling.
   • I call myself an unteacher. When you do well in my class you get a balloon that reads, " From your unteacher for being a good unstudent."1983, Rex Gamble, Believe in Yourself, page 107