educology

English

Etymology

education +‎ -o- +‎ -logy

Noun

educology (uncountable)

The fund of knowledge about the educational process, including theoretical, philosophical, and praxeological perspectives.
- 1981, James E. Christensen, Perspectives on education as educology, page 279:
  The rules, logical operations, and procedures that are required to substantiate knowledge claims about the field of educational phenomena constitute the discipline of educology, and comparison is one of the requisite logical operations.

Derived terms

educological

educologically

educologist

Translations

the fund of knowledge about the educational process

Albanian: edukologjia
Finnish: kasvatustiede (fi)
French: éducologie f
Romanian: educologie f
Spanish: educología f
Ukrainian: освітологія (osvitolohija)

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