We are housed in the College of Education and, because we offer graduate
programs in School Counseling and School Psychology, we fall under NCATE
accreditation standards. We were recently told that our syallabi should refer
to "candidates" rather than "students."
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Paul Brandon wrote:
> At 3:41 PM +0200 10/27/00, DAP Louw (Sielkunde) wrote:
> >Tipsters
> >
> >Because of several reasons (political, historical and otherwise) our
> >National Department of Education in South Africa has decided that
> >the term "student" should be replaced with "learner". We were
> >informed that this is "an international trend" and that we should
> >therefore rather use the term "learner" in our lectures, writings,
> >publications, etc.
> >
> >To what extent is this really an international trend? Or is it only
> >one of those fads?
> >
>
> Sounds like educationise to me -- haven't seen it here yet.
> Does this mean that you will have to expel any student ("one who studies")
> who doesn't learn, or that your 'unstudents' should learn without having to
> study?
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