coeducate

Thân thiện

Boys and girls coeducate in the same classroom.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To educate persons of both sexes together: The act of teaching or instructing male and female students in the same institution or classroom, rather than in separate, single-sex environments.

Usage and Examples

• Verb:
  • The school board decided to coeducate all students starting next semester.
  • Many modern universities have chosen to coeducate, believing it prepares students for a mixed-gender workplace.

Advanced Usage

• Historical Context: The term is often used when discussing the transition from single-sex to mixed-sex education.
  • The college was one of the first in the region to coeducate its student body.

Variants and Related Words

• Coeducation (n): The system or practice of educating students of both sexes together.
  • The move toward coeducation was a significant reform.
• Coeducational (adj): Describing an institution where students of both sexes are educated together.
  • It is a coeducational university.

Synonyms

• Educate together: A more general phrase with the same meaning.

Notes on Meaning

• The word specifically refers to the of integrating the sexes within an educational process. It is less commonly used as a verb than its related noun form "coeducation."

Học thuật

Verb

1. educate persons of both sexes together

Từ đồng nghĩa

• co-educate