educationist

noun

1. A specialist in the theory of education.

   “And there was Talbot's great diseased appetite to corroborate a belief that expatriate educationists ate hoggishly.”

   “In the 1970s, no educationist would have predicted the explosion in universal written communication caused by the personal computer, the internet and the key-pad of the mobile phone.”

   “The educationist Ian Gilbert, in his book Essential Motivation in the Classroom, tells a possibly apocryphal story of a school in which revision notes were all in the form of mind maps.”