'educationalist' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a person who specializes in or is knowledgeable about education. For example, "The educationalist gave an inspiring talk about the importance of early childhood education."
Even that most reasonable of loyalist voices, David Ervine, had fond memories of being taught by the well-respected educationalist from Downpatrick.
"So it's logical to use text-messaging language".Some see this as a slippery slope down which "efficiency seems to authorise all imaginable offences against our dear language," as one educationalist grumbles.
Over the same period an 18-percentage point gap opened up between pass rates in A-levels and the International Baccalaureate.Alan Smithers, an educationalist at Buckingham University, thinks grades inflate when examiners check scripts that lie on boundaries between grades.
While England has engaged in customer-oriented reforms, Wales has indulged in what David Reynolds, an educationalist at the University of Southampton, describes as "producerism's last hurrah".Standards have slipped.
"Will physics be the new Latin?" asked one educationalist gloomily, referring to the collapse in past decades in that once unassailably important subject.
And the pattern of relentless testing continues in secondary school, with external exams at 14, 16, 17 and 18.The common theme across the age range, says Alan Smithers, an educationalist at Buckingham University, is the multiple uses to which the government wants to put exams.
This fits France's sense of secular, revolutionary History, carrying the country forward, however fitfully, like an "endless cortege proceeding towards the light", in the words of Jules Ferry, a 19th-century educationalist.
He proposed to his wife, an American educationalist, nine days after he met her, and later bought the garden bench on which he had done so.
He even turned down the chance of becoming vice-chancellor of Oxford University on the grounds that he was not an "educationalist"—a word that he pronounced with such bitterness and contempt that it struck fear into some of his academic colleagues.Berlin's personal genius was as evident in public service as it was in the lecture room.
Mariano Herrera, an educationalist, predicts that the result will be greater inequality, not less.Teaching is to be rooted in "Bolivarian doctrine", a reference to Mr Chávez's ill-defined Bolivarian revolution supposedly inspired by Simón Bolívar, a leader of Latin America's 19th-century independence struggle.
The committee called such ideas modern, though it noted their long pedigree, traceable back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 18th-century philosophy and the 19th-century views of an American educationalist, John Dewey.Let the children playIn Britain, there had already been one attempt the 1931 Hadow report at bringing such thinking into schools.
