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Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

ipotesi educativa

English translation:

educational theory

Added to glossary by Lucia Valentino
Sep 28, 2012 09:48
11 yrs ago
Italian term

ipotesi educativa

Italian to English Science Education / Pedagogy
il corso si soffermerà sul rapporto etica-politica e sull’ipotesi educativa della decrescita come risposta alla globalizzazione
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 educational theory
4 LEARNING APPROACH
3 educational assumption
3 -1 educated hypothesis or educated guess

Discussion

philgoddard Sep 28, 2012:
Please could you give us some more context, What is the course, and what does it say before and after this? 'Educational theory' doesn't seem to make sense here.

Proposed translations

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educational theory

I'd go for this. However learning theory is another option.
E.G:
Education theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Educational theory is speculative educational thought or a theory of education as
something that guides, explains, or describes educational practice. In terms of ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_theory - 125k - Pagine simili
Learning theory e.g.s:
Learning theory (education) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Learning theories are conceptual frameworks that describe how information is
absorbed, processed, and retained during learning. Learning brings together ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_theory_(education) - 103k - Pagine simili
learning theory - models, product and process
May 29, 2012 ... Here we begin by examining learning as a product and as a process. The latter
takes us into the arena of competing learning theories - ideas ...
www.infed.org/biblio/b-learn.htm - 40k - Pagine simili
Peer comment(s):
agree Linda Thody
36 mins
Thanks Linda
agree Giulia Gigliotti : I think your translation is the closest to the Italian.
21 hrs
Thanks very much Giulia
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "alla fine ho optato per educational theory..grazie mille :)"
2 hrs

LEARNING APPROACH

... the degrowth LEARNING APPROACH as opposed to globalization.


Serge Latouche, Farewell to Growth
(Polity Press, 2010)
EXCERPT FROM A BOOK REVIEW:
“If we change our lives, we can solve the problem of unemployment, but if we focus on the problem of jobs for the sake of jobs there is a danger that we will never change society and that we will head straight for disaster.” This sentence perfectly illustrates the approach we should have when trying to “decolonize our imaginaries” from the paradigm of growth.
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-1
3 hrs

educated hypothesis or educated guess

medium confidence since there's so little context but I think this fits better

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_a_hypothesis_called_an_educ...
Peer comment(s):
neutral philgoddard : This sounds more likely, but wouldn't it be "ipotesi educato"?
36 mins
disagree Giulia Gigliotti : Not really - you can't run a course on the basis of an educated hypothesis or educated guess.
18 hrs
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6 hrs

educational assumption

My effort, sticking to the original text.
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