EDU501 Glossary

 Academic achievement

Academic achievement or (academic)performance is the outcome of education — the extent to which a student, teacher or institution has achieved their educational goals.

 Culture

The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. Culture is transmitted, through language, material objects, ritual, institutions, and art, from one generation to the next generation.

 Curriculum

Curriculum refers to the means and materials with which students will interact for the purpose of achieving identified educational outcomes.

 Discipline

The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience

 Discrimination

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

 Education

The act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge,developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally ofpreparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.

 Family

A group consisting of two parents and their children living together as a unit. For example she moved in with her boyfriend's family"

 Femininism · EDU501 · Glossary

Having qualities or an appearance traditionally associated with women, especially delicacy and prettiness

 Head teacher

The educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal" school principal, principal, head. chancellor - the honorary or titular head of a university, educator, pedagogue - someone who educates young people

 Homework

Schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom or home.

 Ideology

A system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy

 In-service training

Training that is given to employees during the course of employment.

 Instruction

A statement that describes how to do something : an order or command : the action or process of teaching : the act of instructing someone

 National Ideology

National Ideology is a comparatively steady system of ideas and principles, that, as any other ideology, is accepted by its followers. What is the aim of NI? The aim of the NI is to define how the nation must live, ideas it should follow to achieve complete self-realization.

 Professional training

Process of improving and increasing capabilities of staff through access to education and training opportunities in the workplace, through outside organization, or through watching others perform the job. Professional development helps build and maintain morale of staff members, and is thought to attract higher quality staff to an organization. Also called staff development

 School Culture

The term school culture generally refers to the beliefs, perceptions, relationships, attitudes, and written and unwritten rules that shape and influence every aspect of how a school functions, but the term also encompasses more concrete issues such as the physical and emotional safety of students, the orderliness of classrooms and public spaces, or the degree to which a school embraces and celebrates racial, ethnic, linguistic, or cultural diversity

 Social relation

A social relation or social interaction is any relationship between two or more individuals. Social relations derived from individual agency form the basis of social structure and the basic object for analysis by social scientists

 Training School

A school that gives practical vocational and technical instruction.

 Urban school

Urban schools are located in large central cities. But although these communities are often characterized by high rates of poverty, poverty itself is not unique to urban areas and can be found, in particular, in many schools in the nation's rural areas.