coeducate
Definition
- 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."
Verb
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educate persons of both sexes together
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