#school

• Abecedar (dialectal variant) — A form of popular phonetic corruption or regionalism (primarily found in certain rural dialects), used as an alternative variant for 'abecedar'. It defines the same first-grade primer used for deciphering the letters of the alphabet.
• Abiturient / High school senior — An academic term used to denote a high school student in their final year or a graduate who is preparing for or taking the baccalaureate exam (matriculation examination), thereby gaining the right to enroll in higher education.
• Female abiturient / High school senior — The feminine form of the term 'abiturient'; a female student in her final year of high school or a graduate taking the baccalaureate exam to gain access to university studies.
• Graduate — A person who has completed a cycle of education, a school, or specialization courses, obtaining an official title or diploma. In social ethics and the philosophy of education (paideia), the graduate represents not merely an individual who has accumulated technical knowledge, but a fully formed moral subject, prepared to assume the responsibilities of the social contract and to apply ethical principles within civil society.
• Aero club — A sports association, club, or aeronautical organization aimed at promoting, practicing, and developing recreational flight activities, piloting, skydiving, gliding, or aeromodelling. The term also designates the material base of such an association, including the airfield, hangars, aircraft, and training facilities.
• Aerodrome — A defined area on land or water (including any buildings, installations, and equipment) intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure, and surface movement of aircraft. Unlike a fully developed commercial airport, it may feature simplified infrastructure, often being utilized for sports aviation, utility flights, flight schools, or military operations.
• Notice board — A public notice board, bulletin frame made of wood, metal, or secured glass, fixed onto a wall inside an administrative, school, legal, or commercial institution, used for the orderly and protected exposure of posters, official lists, or general announcements.
• After — A term recently borrowed from English, used in modern urban jargon, advertising, educational contexts, or events, usually as a short form for 'after-school' (educational program after classes) or 'after-party' (a social gathering held after a main event). As an invariable adjective or adverb, it indicates a direct temporal succession.
• After-school — An educational, recreational, and supervisory program intended for students, conducted immediately after the conclusion of mandatory school classes. As a noun, it designates the institution or specialized center where children do their homework, have lunch, and participate in complementary activities under pedagogical guidance, offering logistical support to working families.
• Alcuin — An Anglo-Saxon scholar, theologian, philosopher, and educator (Alcuin of York, c. 735–804), who became the chief cultural advisor to Charlemagne and the architect of the Carolingian Renaissance. He reorganized the palatine school at Aachen, standardized the Carolingian minuscule script, and established an educational framework based on the liberal arts (Trivium and Quadrivium), laying the foundations of European medieval culture.
• Moveable alphabet — A special box, folder, or teaching support equipped with compartments holding sets of loose, detachable letters made of cardboard, wood, or plastic, used in preschool and primary education. This pedagogical tool serves as an interactive visual and tactile material to help children learn the formation of their first syllables, words, and sentences during the literacy process.
• To teach literacy — To teach someone how to read and write; to provide elementary instruction to an illiterate person to integrate them functionally into society. In a modern and broader sense, the term describes the process of teaching fundamental notions within a technological, digital, or scientific field, such as computer usage or financial data interpretation.
• Literacy — The act of teaching literacy and its result; the pedagogical and social process through which a person or a group of people acquires the ability to read and write. In the contemporary context, the term has specialized to include basic skills required for information survival, such as digital literacy, media literacy, or financial literacy.
• Alma mater — An allegorical expression from Latin, literally translated as 'nourishing mother', historically used by Romans to designate kind goddesses (Ceres, Cybele) and universally adopted in medieval and modern academic environments to refer to the university, college, or school that a person graduated from, which provided their intellectual and spiritual formation.
• Altdorfer — A surname of Germanic origin or an adjective denoting a person from Altdorf; most frequently references Albrecht Altdorfer, a famous German Renaissance painter, printmaker, and architect, who was a remarkable leader of the Danube School and a pioneer of pure landscape painting.
• Boarding school — An institution, boarding school, or educational house (historically associated mostly with theological seminaries or confessional schools) where students (alumni) lived and were maintained for free or via scholarships; by extension, the quality or status of being an alumnus.
• Anaximander — Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610 – 546 BC); a presocratic Greek philosopher of the Milesian school, disciple of Thales and master of Anaximenes. He is structurally recognized as the first thinker to have written a philosophical treatise in prose and to have identified the primordial principle of all things (arche) in the 'apeiron' (the boundless, infinite, or indefinite), an eternal substance in motion from which opposites separate.
• Anaximenes — Anaximenes of Miletus (c. 585 – 528 BC); a presocratic Greek philosopher, the last representative of the Milesian school, disciple of Anaximander. He structurally simplified the search for the primordial principle (arche) by identifying it as infinite air (aer), a divine and animated substance that, through the physical processes of rarefaction and condensation, gives rise to all elements and forms in the universe.
• Toddler — Relating to the child development period between the ages of 1 and 3 years, a structural stage preceding classic preschool education; a young child at this evolutionary stage. In an educational and institutional sense, the term defines the specific nature of psychopedagogical activities, nurseries, and early care programs focused on developing autonomy, language, and primary motor skills.
• Anti-bullying — Combating, preventing, or punishing the phenomenon of bullying (repeated harassment, intimidation, and humiliation); a set of educational strategies, school policies, laws, or social campaigns designed to protect children and youth against psychological and physical aggression. In the modern school environment, the term defines early intervention programs and safety protocols created to promote tolerance, inclusion, and emotional support.