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Meaning of "deschool" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DESCHOOL

ˌdiːˈskuːl


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESCHOOL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Deschool is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb deschool in English.

WHAT DOES DESCHOOL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of deschool in the English dictionary

The definition of deschool in the dictionary is to separate education from the institution of school and operate through the pupil's life experience as opposed to a set curriculum.



CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DESCHOOL

PRESENT

Present
I deschool
you deschool
he/she/it deschools
we deschool
you deschool
they deschool
Present continuous
I am deschooling
you are deschooling
he/she/it is deschooling
we are deschooling
you are deschooling
they are deschooling
Present perfect
I have deschooled
you have deschooled
he/she/it has deschooled
we have deschooled
you have deschooled
they have deschooled
Present perfect continuous
I have been deschooling
you have been deschooling
he/she/it has been deschooling
we have been deschooling
you have been deschooling
they have been deschooling
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I deschooled
you deschooled
he/she/it deschooled
we deschooled
you deschooled
they deschooled
Past continuous
I was deschooling
you were deschooling
he/she/it was deschooling
we were deschooling
you were deschooling
they were deschooling
Past perfect
I had deschooled
you had deschooled
he/she/it had deschooled
we had deschooled
you had deschooled
they had deschooled
Past perfect continuous
I had been deschooling
you had been deschooling
he/she/it had been deschooling
we had been deschooling
you had been deschooling
they had been deschooling
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will deschool
you will deschool
he/she/it will deschool
we will deschool
you will deschool
they will deschool
Future continuous
I will be deschooling
you will be deschooling
he/she/it will be deschooling
we will be deschooling
you will be deschooling
they will be deschooling
Future perfect
I will have deschooled
you will have deschooled
he/she/it will have deschooled
we will have deschooled
you will have deschooled
they will have deschooled
Future perfect continuous
I will have been deschooling
you will have been deschooling
he/she/it will have been deschooling
we will have been deschooling
you will have been deschooling
they will have been deschooling
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would deschool
you would deschool
he/she/it would deschool
we would deschool
you would deschool
they would deschool
Conditional continuous
I would be deschooling
you would be deschooling
he/she/it would be deschooling
we would be deschooling
you would be deschooling
they would be deschooling
Conditional perfect
I would have deschool
you would have deschool
he/she/it would have deschool
we would have deschool
you would have deschool
they would have deschool
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been deschooling
you would have been deschooling
he/she/it would have been deschooling
we would have been deschooling
you would have been deschooling
they would have been deschooling
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you deschool
we let´s deschool
you deschool
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to deschool
Past participle
deschooled
Present Participle
deschooling
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DESCHOOL

after-school · alcool · cool · interschool · kewl · old-skool · preschool · reschool · school · skool · uncool

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESCHOOL

descended · descendent · descender · descendeur · descendible · descending · descension · descensional · descent · Deschamps · deschooler · descramble · descrambler · describable · describe · describer · descried · descrier · descries · description

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESCHOOL

business school · driving school · elementary school · grade school · graduate school · high school · home-school · infant school · junior high school · law school · medical school · middle school · old school · primary school · private school · public school · secondary school · senior high school · summer school · Sunday school · trade school

Synonyms and antonyms of deschool in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «deschool» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DESCHOOL

Find out the translation of deschool to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of deschool from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «deschool» in English.
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deschool
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

desescolarizar
570 millions of speakers
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deschool
510 millions of speakers
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deschool
380 millions of speakers
ar

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deschool
280 millions of speakers
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deschool
278 millions of speakers
pt

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deschool
270 millions of speakers
bn

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deschool
260 millions of speakers
fr

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déscolariser
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Sekolah menengah
190 millions of speakers
de

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deschool
180 millions of speakers
ja

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deschool
130 millions of speakers
ko

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deschool
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Deschool
85 millions of speakers
vi

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deschool
80 millions of speakers
ta

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deschool
75 millions of speakers
mr

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डेस्कल
75 millions of speakers
tr

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deschool
70 millions of speakers
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deschool
65 millions of speakers
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deschool
50 millions of speakers
uk

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deschool
40 millions of speakers
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deschool
30 millions of speakers
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deschool
15 millions of speakers
af

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deschool
14 millions of speakers
sv

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deschool
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

deschool
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of deschool

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESCHOOL»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of deschool
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about deschool

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESCHOOL»

Discover the use of deschool in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to deschool and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Life Long Learning - Transforming Learning; Discovering ...
Just as in learning, we all will take however long or short we may need to deschool. For myself, I believe it has taken most of the fourteen plus years that I was in school to equally deschool. Being a former teacher in the private and public ...
Patti Diamond, 2005
2
The Homeschooling Option: How to Decide When It's Right for ...
If families do not take the time to deschool and instead enter homeschooling right where the classroom left off, with daily lessons and tests and days packed with assigned learning, they may burn out quickly and never discover the joys that ...
Lisa Rivero, 2008
3
De Sociale Ontwikkeling Van Het Schoolkind
Deschool. Tips voor slachtoffers van pesten: − Praat over het pesten en kies iemand die je vertrouwt (praten is geen klikken). − Kies een rustig moment, zodat degene aan wie je het vertelt tijd heeft om te luisteren. − Vraag om hulp. − Maak de ...
Jan Van Der Ploeg, 2010
4
Dorp aan de rivier
Klep, klep, klep,deschool gaat aan. Dit waszo kinderlijk,zowit,zo pril, het geurde vankinderen. Ende klein zingende stemmetjes waren over de dijk zoijlen zo rein, het golfde uit over de stille Maas, die blauw was van de hemel. De kinderen ...
5
Tradition, Interpretation, and Science: Political Theory in ...
At his best moments, Heidegger wanted to deschool the philosophy to come, not found a different school to dominate the others. This self- effacing, deconstructive purpose is even more striking on the part of Derrida. It stems from a sense that ...
John S. Nelson, 1986
6
Riding the Wind: Liberation Ecology for a New Era
If we are to create a free and sustainable society in harmony with nature, it is essential to deschool society, to separate learning from control, to open up schools, and to break down the barriers with the rest of society. We can start here and now ...
Peter Marshall, 2009
7
Freedom from Want: The Remarkable Success Story of BRAC, the ...
... a term and an approach that would become widely used in community development during the 1970s. The third writer Abed discovered was Ivan Illich, the author of Deschool- ing Society, a radical critique of formal education as practiced ...
Ian Smillie, 2009
8
Autonomy and Schooling
Interpreted literally, the demand that we deschool society is the demand that we eradicate schooling. The opaque rhetoric used by Illich and his disciples often makes it difficult to see just what they are espousing, though certain passages in  ...
Eamonn Callan, 1988
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The Chambers Dictionary
[Fr descendre. from L descendere, from de down, and scandere to climb] deschool di-skoot vi and vi to free children from the restrictions of traditional classroom learning and a set curriculum, and educate them in a less formal way, esp at ...
Allied Chambers, 1998
10
Social Action
To deschool society means to do away with the societal institution we call school. Institutions are aggregates of complex role structures organised around a central activity or social need. Given the need societies have to possess a literate, ...

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESCHOOL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term deschool is used in the context of the following news items.
1
School crisis is a problem of ideology
... as the education theorist Ivan Illich's call to deschool society has shown. Last year's Public Positions seminar on the merits and demerits of ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Feb 15»
2
Institute for Social Ecology Marks 40 Years of Anarchy
... professor Kathleen Kesson said she favors efforts to "unschool" or "deschool" youth due in part to "the corporate lockdown of public schools. «Seven Days, Aug 14»
3
Aditi Phadnis: A 'new' Andhra for Naidu
... primarily comprised disgruntled and ambitious Congressmen, Naidu's job was to deschool them and create a new Andhra Pradesh politician. «Business Standard, May 14»
4
Deschooling RED: Beyond the Fear of Failure
To deschool religious education, then, is simply to decouple education from the political economy of the compulsory school, and be ... «Patheos, Feb 14»
5
The truth: there's no pill for every illness
... to deschool society of its firm belief that modern medicine is a true science and there is a pill or surgery for every illness! The truth is that while ... «The Hindu, Oct 10»
6
Time to Cut Class
Ideological vigilance is not enough, which is why I have decided to “deschool” myself, to bring these unconscious habits into my consciousness ... «Utne Reader Online, May 08»
7
Hartmut von Hentig: Education as Political Training
In those discussions, von Hentig—who has been a consistent critic of Illich's proposals to deschool society—was an ardent exponent of rationality and continuity. «Mother Earth News, Apr 08»
8
Reclaiming Our Freedom to Learn
How can we deschool our lives and those of our children in this real world, where the school still dominates minds, hearts and institutions? «YES! Magazine, Dec 07»
REFERENCE
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