Outline of education

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to education:

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Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, habits, and personal development. [1]

Participants in education

Education by Country

History of education

Educational philosophies

Educational theory and practice

Pedogagical and instructional approaches

Teaching methods

Teaching method – set of principles and methods used by teachers to enable student learning.

  • Collaborative learning – situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together.
  • Context-based learning – use of real-life and fictitious examples in teaching environments in order to learn through the actual, practical experience with a subject
  • Design-based learning – inquiry-based form of learning, or pedagogy, that is based on integration of design thinking and the design process into the classroom at the K-12 and post-secondary levels.
  • Direct instruction – explicit teaching of a skill set using lectures or demonstrations of the material to students
  • Evidence-based education – principle that education practices should be based on the best available scientific evidence, with randomised trials as the gold standard of evidence, rather than tradition, personal judgement, or other influences
  • Experiential education – philosophy of education that describes the process that occurs between a teacher and student that infuses direct experience with the learning environment and content
  • Experiential learning – process of learning through experience, and is more narrowly defined as "learning through reflection on doing"
  • Homework set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed at home.
  • Inquiry-based learning – form of active learning that starts by posing questions, problems or scenarios.
  • Kinesthetic learning – learning that involves physical activity, preferring whole-body movement to process new and difficult information.
  • Learning by teaching – method of teaching in which students are made to learn material and prepare lessons to teach it to the other students.
  • Online learning community – public or private destination on the Internet that addresses its members' learning needs by facilitating peer-to-peer learning
  • Open learning – activities that either enhance learning opportunities within formal education systems or broaden learning opportunities beyond formal education systems
  • Open classroom – student-centered learning space design format, where large group of students of varying skill levels would be in a single, large classroom with several teachers overseeing them.
  • Outcome-based education – educational theory that bases each part of an educational system around goals (outcomes)
  • Outdoor education – organized learning that takes place in the outdoors, such as during school camping trips
  • Personalized learning – efforts to tailor education to meet the different needs of students.
  • Problem-based learning – teaching method in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem found in trigger material
  • Problem-posing education – method of teaching that emphasizes critical thinking for the purpose of liberation, coined by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire
  • Project-based learning – teaching method that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which it is believed that students acquire a deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems
  • Service-learning – educational approach that uses community service to meet both classroom learning objectives and societal needs
  • Slow education – adaptive and non-standards based approaches to teaching
  • Single-sex education – practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, buildings or schools
  • Student-centred learning – methods of teaching that shift the focus of instruction from the teacher to the student, aiming to develop learner autonomy and independence
  • Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Bloom's Taxonomy) – framework for categorizing educational goals, developed by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom in 1956

Educational materials, tools and technologies

Types of educational goals and outcomes

There are many types of potential educational aims and objectives, irrespective of the specific subject being learned. Some can cross multiple school disciplines.

Educational assessment, qualification and certification (for students)

Educational qualifications (for teachers)

Branches of education

Education by level or stage

Educational stage – subdivisions of formal learning

Education by funding and governance

Education by subject, specialization or department

Educational scholars and researchers

Educational research

In addition, research methods are drawn from many social research and psychological fields.

Educational organizations

Types of educational institutions

Specific schools

Associations

Governmental organisations and agencies

Libraries

Types of libraries

Specific libraries

Museums

Types of museums

See also

References

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