Meaning: An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. Classified under: Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects. Synonyms: clique; coterie; ingroup; inner circle; camp; pack. Hypernyms (clique is a kind of...): band; circle; lot; set (an unofficial association of people or groups) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of clique):
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Relevance is the concept of one topic being connected to another topic in a way that makes it useful to consider the first topic when considering the second. The concept of relevance is studied in many different fields, including cognitive sciences, logic, and library and information science. Most fundamentally, however, it is studied in epistemology (the theory of knowledge).
Simply put, when a teacher provides relevance for a student, the teacher conveys his or her intentions to the student by tapping into that studentâs cognitive need to make sense of the world. âMany attempt to add relevance to otherwise uninteresting content by focusing efforts on creating interest,â Roberson says.