Pushout

Definitions

1. The colimit of a pair of morphisms which share the same domain.
2. A person who is expelled from school or who drops out because of a lack of support.

Equivalents

Examples

“For most of these school leavers or 'pushouts', school has been an experience⟳ of progressive alienation from their traditional way of life. We prefer⟳ the term 'pushout' to 'dropout' because the former term appropriately allocates the agency for the phenomenon.”

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