e-tivity
an activity designed to encourage active engagement by learners in an online environment. It will typically involve some kind of interaction/co-operation.The term was coined by the Australian academic Gilly Salmon.
early education
early intervention
early years
ecological validity
ecopedagogy
a development of the critical pedagogy movement which aims at 'planetary consciousness', educating for a sustainable future for humanity and the environment. It promotes sustainable civilization from an ecological perspective, involving significant changes to existing economic, social, and cultural structures. It sees current environmental education, outdoor education, and education for sustainable development as inadequate to address the challenge.
educational psychology
educational technology
elaborated code
elementary schools
emotional and behavioural difficulties
emotional intelligence
enactive, iconic, and symbolic modes
Enlightenment
enquiry learning
equal opportunities
practices or policies intended to ensure fair treatment without discrimination, especially on the grounds of race, gender, sexuality, age, or ethnic origin.
equality
one of the fundamental democratic values. It is a highly contested term which refers to a state of correspondence - the state of being equal - in quantity, degree, value, status, or ability. In education, it is most often linked to issues around equality of provision and of outcomes. It is often synonymous with justice or fairness and so to the avoidance, or removal, of discrimination (see numerical equality, proportional equality, equal opportunities)
ethnic minority
etiology
the study of causation, of why things occur. Etiological issues are important in educational research when trying to pick out key factors in some phenomenon, or in discriminating between causation and mere correlation. For example, a study may struggle to determine if reading for pleasure activity contributes to reading ability, or if it is reading ability that leads to more reading for pleasure. As with many etiological issues in education, the answer may not be clear-cut.
experiential education
experiential learning
expressive learning
extra-mural
extracurricular
descriptive of activities which fall outside the formal curriuclum. Such activities may include optional lunchtime and afterschool clubs and societies, for example. Some dispute the term but it can be useful for distinguishing learning which is beyond the compulsory core (see informal curriculum)