transmissionism
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]transmission + -ism
Noun
[edit]transmissionism (uncountable)
- (education) A teaching style focused on transmitting facts without regard to the individual student.
- 2010, Valerie Pellatt, Kate Griffiths, Shao-Chuan Wu, Teaching and Testing Interpreting and Translating, page 156:
- 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.