holist
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Is holist a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (education, of a learning strategy) That concentrates on forming an overview of the topic.Examples: "Pask suggests that these strategies reflect basic learning styles; holist strategies reflect a comprehension learning style and serialist strategies an operation learning style."; "Pask described the two strategies as 'holist' and 'serialist'.[…]Learners who adopt a holist strategy (described as comprehension learners) like to get an overview of a topic."; "The serialist/holist cognitive style is a measure of a bipolar information-processing strategy that describes the way that learners select and represent information (Pask, 1976; Pask & Scott, 1972)."not-comparable
noun (English)
1. (sociology) One who advocates studying society as a whole, and who consistently interprets the actions of individuals in that context.Examples: "Holism is more eclectic in its methods; for most holists, rigor means reconstructing the meaning of an action in the subject's own terms, and interpreting it in light of a richly detailed cultural, social, and historical context."; "By contrast, the holists, like Emile Durkheim, regard individual action as only a reaction to pressures exerted by society as a whole: they are right in stressing the social embeddedness of individual action."
2. (education) One who prefers to learn by forming an overview of the topic.Examples: "Those subjects using a serialist strategy tended to proceed in a step-by-step manner, whereas the holists adopted a more global approach to what was to be learned."; "They^([serialists]) learn rules, methods and details more readily than the holists."; "Holists use a global, thematic approach to learning by concentrating first on building broad descriptions.[…]The holist then uses complex links to relate mutileveled information."
Definition source: Wiktionary