educational
/ɛdjʊˈkeɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l
/adjective
1Relating to the provision of education: educational institutions children with special educational needs...
- Its report is part of a wider review of special educational needs provision in the district.
- What, then, is the educational ethos in these schools, and what do they teach?
- Speaking English as a second language has no real impact on educational achievement.
Synonyms
academic, scholastic, school, for study, learning, teaching, pedagogic, tuitional, instructional
1.1Intended or serving to educate or enlighten: seeing an analyst was a very educational experience...
- He is also visiting schools to give informal educational talks about his experiences.
- The book is an educational experience for the layman who is also a practising Christian.
- The Associated Press reported that a few got queasy but that others found it an educational experience.
Synonyms
instructive, instructional, educative, informative, informational, illuminating, pedagogic, doctrinal, preceptive, enlightening, edifying, improving, didactic, heuristic;
pedantic, moralistic, homiletic
rare propaedeutic
Derivatives
educationalist
/ noun ...- Failed ‘child-centred’ theories which took hold of education in the 1960s still retain their iron grip on educationalists and still infect teacher training colleges.
- Yet it sometimes seems that many teachers and educationalists have forgotten these basic facts.
- It is this group of educationalists who provide ongoing professional development to the 44,000 teachers who are committed to the learning needs of our young people.