mainstreaming

See also: Mainstreaming

English

mainstreaming (usually uncountable, plural mainstreamings)

The process of bringing something into the mainstream.
- 2010 July 23, Jonathon Porritt, “The greenest government ever? Don't make me laugh”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 October 2026:
  Neither Wales nor Scotland was in favour of getting rid of it, no doubt because both countries have done an infinitely better job than Whitehall on mainstreaming sustainable development.
- 2010, Joyeeta Gupta, Nicolien van der Grijp, editors, Mainstreaming Climate Change in Development Cooperation […] , Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 77:
  Mainstreaming implies involving all social actors—governments, civil society, industry and local communities—in the process. Mainstreaming calls for changes in policy as far upstream as possible.
(education, chiefly US) The practice of educating students with special needs in regular classes.
- 1985 April 14, Barbara Gerbasi, “Mainstreaming My Son”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 April 2023:
  It was 1979, and for many educators mainstreaming was an idea whose time had come.

process

mainstreaming