edumyth
Noun
Pseudoscientific belief about education, pedagogy, or learning without an empirical basis.
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FOREWORD: EDUMYTHS AND THE SLEEP OF REASON
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The authors discuss some of the edu-myths of the time and spend considerable effort debunking them. That the myths themselves sound so familiar in 34 The Attack on Nova Scotia Schools.
Similarly discredited is the 'edumyth' that the brain's structure is defined by infancy or by adolescence.
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Perhaps teachers have their own set of 'edumyths', beliefs which many (including neuroscientists) might hold but which are not true of education.
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