learnify

English

Etymology

Back-formation from learnification, equivalent to learn + -ify.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ʹlû(r)nəfī, IPA^(key): /ˈlɜː(ɹ)nəfaɪ/

Verb

learnify (third-person singular simple present learnifies, present participle learnifying, simple past and past participle learnified)

1. (education, derogatory) To shift discourses around and understandings of education to focus entirely or almost entirely on learning.
   • 2015 October 19, Yigal Rosen, Handbook of Research on Technology Tools for Real-World Skill Development, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 5:

     Learnifying the Curriculum: In the new educational technology and media, a term like "curriculum" has been replaced with popular expressions of personalized learning, learning styles, learning choice, and learning centers (Loveless & Williamson, 2013).

   • 2018, David Lambert, “Editorial: Teaching as a research-engaged profession: Uncovering a blind spot and revealing new possibilities”, in London Review of Education, volume 16, number 3, →DOI, pages 357–370:

     Thus, three-part lessons, thinking skills activities and frequent assessments of ‘progress’ enormously learnified the processes of education and, in some ways, distorted the relationship between teachers and students, and indeed the different relationship students and teachers have with the various subjects.

   • 2020, Hillary l. Greene Nolan, “Rethinking the Grammar of Student-Teacher Relationships”, in American Journal of Education, volume 126, number 4, →DOI, pages 549–572:

     The conventional relational grammar involves teachers and students connecting to pursue academic learning—a grammar rooted in both historic attempts to define the professional domain of teaching as the transmission of academic knowledge as well as current efforts to "learnify" education.