General education

General education

The science and practice that encompass teaching and learning knowledge, beliefs, and skills.

Contributors in General education

General education

In education, one who teaches students or pupils, often a course of study, lesson plan, or a practical skill, including learning and thinking skills. There are many different ways to teach and help ...

meta-

Education; General education

In epistemology, the prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category). For example, metadata is data about data (who has produced it, when, what format the data is in and so on). Similarly, ...

reinforcement

Education; General education

In operant conditioning, reinforcement is any change in an organism's surroundings that: occurs regularly when the organism behaves in a given way (that is, is contingent on a specific response); and ...

learning by teaching (LdL)

Education; General education

In professional education (in German "Lernen durch Lehren", therefore LdL) designates a method which allows pupils and students to prepare and teach lessons or parts of lessons. Learning by teaching ...

additional support needs

Education; General education

In Scotland, children who require some additional support to remove barriers to learning in any respect are deemed to have Additional Support Needs. This definition abolished the previously used term ...

course of study

Education; General education

in the British Commonwealth, a programme of education leading to a degree or diploma

electronic portfolio

Education; General education

In the context of education and learning, an electronic portfolio, normally known as an ePortfolio or a digital portfolio, is a portfolio based on electronic media and services. It consists of a ...