This glossary of literary terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in education
a student exchanges program
noun
A student exchange program is a program in which students from a secondary school (high school) or university study abroad at one of their institution's partner institutions.
fr: un programme d'échanges d'étudiants
Academic degree
noun
An academic degree is a qualification awarded to students upon successful completion of a course of study in higher education, usually at a college or university.
Example: I just got my academy degree
fr: Diplôme universitaire
Academic institution
noun
An academic institution is an entity, such as a university or college, that runs independently from other like entities and has its own set of rules and business processes.
fr: Institution académique
Blended learning
noun
a style of education in which students learn via electronic and online media as well as traditional face-to-face teaching.
fr: Apprentissage mixte
Boarding school
noun
a school where students reside during the semester
Example: My parents sent me to a boarding school when I was younger
fr: Internat
College
noun
college is a place of higher learning after high school that provides education and grants degrees or certification.
Example: There is not a great potential to enrich wildlife along the stream mainly due to its purpose and the adjacent land uses, COLLEGE in particular, but it should be maintained so as not to diminish the existing features.
fr: Université
Cultural learning
noun
Cultural learning is a uniquely human form of social learning that allows for a fidelity of transmission of behaviors and information among conspecifics not possible in other forms of social learning, thereby providing the psychological basis for cultural evolution.
Example: if the basic principle of CULTURAL LEARNING being driven solely by imitation is rejected the foundations of The Meme Machine collapse and there is no reason why we should accept any of Blackmore's arguments.
fr: Apprentissage culturel
Distance education
noun
Distance Education is defined as instruction between a teacher and students when they are separated by physical distance and communication are accomplished by one or more technological media.
Example: Technology has also impacted the segment by way of virtual and DISTANCE EDUCATION ; offering the benefits of travel without the leaving home or the university
fr: L'enseignement à distance
Education
noun
Education is about learning skills and knowledge. It also means helping people to learn how to do things and support them to think about what they learn.
fr: Éducation
Homeschooling
noun
the education of children at home by their parents.
Example: I was home school until I turned 14
fr: L'école à la maison
International education
noun
International education refers to a dynamic concept that involves a journey or movement of people, minds, or ideas across political and cultural frontiers
fr: Éducation internationale
Kindergarten
noun
a school or class that prepares children for first grade. A child in kindergarten is typically 5 or 6 years old.
Example: Whilst this study took place on preschool children, a similar study by Wagner et al. (1994) demonstrated similar findings in a three-year longitudinal study on children from KINDERGARTEN through to 2nd grade.
fr: Jardin d'enfants
Learning
noun
the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught.
Example: Behavioural LEARNING theories Assume that human beings develop or modify their behaviour through stimulus-response.
fr: Apprentissage
Lecture
verb
deliver an educational lecture or lectures
Example: she was lecturing to her class of eighty students
fr: Faire un cours
Lesson plan
noun
a teacher's plan for teaching an individual lesson.
Example: the site contains lesson plans for teachers
fr: Plan de cours
Note-taking
noun
note taking is the practice of recording information from different sources and platforms by taking notes
Example: investors should take note of the company’s resilience
fr: Prendre des notes
Overlearning
noun
Overlearning involves studying material beyond a predetermined level of mastery in other words, continued study after one already knows the material.
Example: Overlearning interferes with subsequent learning
fr: Surapprentissage
Primary education
noun
elementary education, also called primary education, the first stage traditionally found in formal education, beginning at about age 5 to 7 and ending at about age 11 to 13.
Example: Cumulatively these will lead to changes in education industry as big as the advent of universal primary education in the second half of the last century, or the expansion of higher education in the past 35 years.
fr: Enseignement primaire
public schools
noun
a school supported by public funds.
Example: Although sport as an institution has evolved beyond the 19th Century public schools and women are not institutionally excluded from (most) sporting spheres, women are still marginal figures in contemporary sport, and this shall now be explored.
fr: écoles publiques
School discipline
noun
School discipline refers to the rules and strategies applied in school to manage student behavior and practices used to encourage self-discipline.
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