target
task
taxonomy
teacher education
teaching
team
team-building
technical education
technical rationalism
a term from the work of Donald Schön (1930-97) for an approach (to teaching), derived from positivism, which sees practice as involving the simple application of solutions from research to generic problems. He contrasted that with his own preferred notion of the 'reflective practitioner' where being professional involves much more thought, considered reflection on one's practice, awareness of context, and the importance of all these in defining the problem in the first place, problem-setting, rather than mere problem-solving using strategies devised by others elsewhere.
technicism
technocracy
technoheutagogy
learner-directed study within a technology-enhanced context, most typically in relation to adult engagement with online courses (see heutagogy).
testing
the process of assessing performance, attainment, achievement, capacity, aptitude, potential, or many other qualities or factors (see assessment)
theory
think tank
three Rs
threshold concept
tiered assignments
a form of differentiation aimed at achieving the same outcomes but by different means, suited to learners’ needs.
tiger-parenting
a form of highly ambitious, strict, and demanding parenting which involves strong pressure on the child to achieve and excel academically. The term is drawn from the work of Amy Chua (b.1962)
time management
toddlers
tokenism
top-down
total curriculum
totalitarianism
trace decay
tracking
trade union
training
transcendental
transcendentalism
transference
transition
transmission
transnational education
This refers to educational provision from one country being offered in another. It can take the form of taught programmes, or blended, or online. It is sometimes abbreviated as TNE. Some are uneasy with one way in which it has evolved, whereby privileged Western universities and colleges make profits from courses run on their behalf in developing or poorer nations, rather than having these same states build indigenous educational capacity.
triangulation
trivium
truancy
truth
fact; reality; accuracy. A common term but a very contested philosophical concept ( see epistemology; knowledge).