Betekenis van mainstream In het Nederlands

• 0 considered normal, and having or using ideas, beliefs, etc. that are accepted by most people:

  • This is the director's first mainstream Hollywood film.

  • Many youngsters have been out of mainstream education for so long that they cannot adapt to a formal learning environment.

  • Many estimate that up to 20% of children in mainstream classrooms may have some special needs.

  • mainstream children/students/teachers

• 1 the way of life or set of beliefs accepted by most people:

  • The new law should allow more disabled people to enter the mainstream of American life.

• 2 to make something start to be considered normal:

  • Political rhetoric mainstreams hostility.

  • Mainstreaming equality means that equality should not be catered for only by specific programmes or initiatives.

  • The school has been mainstreaming children with special needs successfully for almost 20 years.

  • We didn't know if he could be mainstreamed.

• 3 (of beliefs or behavior) common and shared by most people, or representing such beliefs or behavior:

  • The story was largely ignored by the mainstream press.

• 4 to place children with special needs in regular classes at school:

  • The district was ordered to mainstream more children with disabilities.

• 5 most of a society:

  • New laws will allow more disabled people to enter the mainstream.

• 6 mainstream organizations, ideas, etc. are those that are considered normal, and accepted or used by most people:

  • mainstream media/press Mainstream media are ignoring the real problems.

  • mainstream culture/politics/society Cell phones have been a part of mainstream culture since the 1990s.

  • mainstream education/school It should be possible to include children with behavioural problems within mainstream education.

• 7 the way of life or set of beliefs practised or accepted by most people:

  • cultural/political mainstream Our nation's political mainstream will never allow such a constitutional change.

  • The new law should allow more disabled people to enter the mainstream of the American workforce.

• 8 to include people who have particular difficulties or needs in the same schools or places of work as everyone else:

  • When the children of immigrants are mainstreamed, they learn the new language within months.

  • mainstream sb into sth People with disabilities are being mainstreamed into community jobs.

• 9 to make something become accepted as normal by most people:

  • The recession is mainstreaming the part-time economy.