Category: E
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Expunge
Obliterate.
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Expulsion
In education, permanent withdrawal of a student’s privilege to attend a certain school or class. In education, an order for a student to leave a school, generally only after repeated serious misbehavior, though sometimes for grossly inadequate performance at schoolwork. Unlike suspension, which is temporary, expulsion is long-term, either for the balance of the school…
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Expressive objectives
Objectives described in a meaningful encounter or task rather than some exact outcome.
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Expressive movements
Movements of the face and body that seem to reflect emotions.
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Expressionistic sexuality
Complete expression of a person’s personality-defined concept of sexuality.
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Exposure registry
An official roster of persons exposed to hazardous substances that evolved from the need for fundamental information concerning the potential impact on human health of long-term exposure to low and moderate levels of hazardous substances.
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Exploratory, insight-oriented therapy (EOI)
A therapeutic approach based on the Freudian model that emphasizes the attainment of insight and understanding of one’s past and present difficulties.
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Exploratory education
Education that emphasizes children’s need to discover answers themselves.
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Exploration
In research, to examine phenomena that have not previously been studied in the same way; to try different things in a situation to determine what happens; and to examine previously examined situations from new points of view to see whether a difference is significant. A procedure or surgical operation where the aim is to discover…
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Explanation, rationale, theory, point of view
In research, a description of the relationship among variables that portrays the sequence of events and attributes causal and mode-rating roles to certain variables or events in that sequence or, where this is not yet possible, as much of such description as the current state of knowledge permits.