learnification

The shift in discourses around and understandings of education to focus entirely or almost entirely on learning.

Noun

  1. The shift in discourses around and understandings of education to focus entirely or almost entirely on learning.
    • In the next section I explore why we seem to have lost sight of questions about values, purpose and the goodness of education. I suggest that at least part of the explanation for this has to do with what I will refer to...
    • 'Learnification' appears to reduce teachers to facilitators of learning, competent practitioners or at worst 'deliverers' of the curriculum. - 2016 July 30, Osvaldo Muñiz Solari, Michael Solem, Richard Boehm, Learning...
    • Pearson's business motto is 'Always Learning', which plays well with the contemporary moment of learnification. - 2017 October 20, Elisabeth Hultqvist, Sverker Lindblad, Thomas S. Popkewitz, Critical Analyses of...

Origin

From learn + -ification. Coined by Dutch educational theorist Gert Biesta an article published in a 2009 journal volume.