Flashcards: Education

Literacy is traditionally understood as the ability to read, write, and use arithmetic.

University admission or college admission is the process through which students enter tertiary education at universities and colleges.

Female education is a catch-all term for a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women.

A blackboard (also known as a chalkboard) is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulfate or calcium carbonate, known, when used for this purpose, as chalk.

Compulsory education refers to a period of education that is required of all persons and is imposed by law.

The Head teacher, headmaster, headmistress, head, or principal (sometimes another title is used) is the teacher with the greatest responsibility for the management of a College.

Philosophy of education can refer either to the application of philosophy to the problem of education, examining the definition, goals and meaning of education, or to any particular vision of or approach to education.

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic Secondary Modern Schools.

Homework, or a homework assignment, is a set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed outside the class.

Ignorance is a state of being uninformed or lack of knowledge.

Cosmography is the science that maps the general features of the cosmos or universe, describing both heaven and Earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy).

A trainer is a class of aircraft designed specifically to facilitate flight training of pilots and aircrews.

World Teachers' Day, also known as International Teachers Day, is held annually on October 5 since 1994, commemorates teacher organizations worldwide.

Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.

A tutor is an instructor who gives private lessons.

Truancy is any intentional unauthorized or illegal absence from compulsory education.

An audition is a sample performance by an actor, singer, musician, dancer or other performer.

Entertainment products have been used in a variety of ways in the field of education.

Student syndrome refers to planned procrastination, when, for example, a student will only start to apply themselves to an assignment at the last possible moment before its deadline.

Learning environment can refer to an educational approach, cultural context, or physical setting in which teaching and learning occur.

Learning society is an educational philosophy advocated by the OECD and UNESCO that positions education as the key to a nation’s economic development, and holds that education should extend beyond formal learning (based in traditional educational institutions – schools, universities etc.) into informal learning centres to support a knowledge economy (known as a “world education culture”).