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educational

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1 providing knowledge; instructive or informative
an educational toy

2 of or relating to education
♦ educationally adv

educational psychology
n the study of methods of training and teaching and their effectiveness, and of the problems experienced in learning formal material; in particular, the study of how to help people, esp. school children, with learning problems to overcome their difficulties

Educational Welfare Officer
n (in Britain) a local education authority worker whose job it is to find out whether difficulties outside school are contributing to a child's classroom problems or irregular attendance and who may intervene to help the child to benefit more from schooling, (Former names) school attendance officer, truancy officer

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educ., educability, educable, educate

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walk of life	exp.	expression used when referring to someone's profession, background, social class or life experience	E.g: People from all walks of life will participate to the event
! UNESCO	n.	abbr. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations. UNESCO.org en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO	Its mission is to contribute to the building of peace,the eradication of poverty,sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education,the sciences,culture,communication and information

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