Teaching

• CURIE: gmeow:Teaching
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/Teaching
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/learning
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

A reified teaching relation — one teacher, one or more learners, and the subject taught, mediated as a gufo:Relator so the roles, period, confidence, and evidence of instruction are first-class (the gmeow:Participation / gmeow:KnowledgeProficiency relator idiom). The being-taught face of learning: a learner's gmeow:LearningEvent of variety gmeow:learningBeingTaught participates in a gmeow:Teaching, which carries who taught it (gmeow:teacher) and what was taught (gmeow:subjectTaught). The teacher must differ from the learner — a closed-world rule enforced by gmeow:TeachingShape (SHACL), not a DL axiom.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:Relator

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Teaching as a specialized kind of gufo:Relator. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Teaching And Being Taught

• Source: slices/core/learning/examples/teaching-and-being-taught.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-learning-examples-teaching-and-being-taught

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/learning/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .



# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: the two faces of instruction. A gmeow:Teaching relator reifies
# the instruction relation — one teacher, two learners taught together, one
# subject — making the roles first-class; teacher ≠ learner is enforced by
# gmeow:TeachingShape (SHACL), so an agent never teaches itself. Each learner's
# OWN acquisition is a separate gmeow:LearningEvent of variety
# gmeow:learningBeingTaught that gmeow:learnedFrom the teacher and gmeow:produces
# the cognitive state it settled — the being-taught face of learning, paired with
# the teaching relator the events participate in.

# --- The reified instruction: one teacher, TWO learners taught together, one
#     subject. teacher ≠ learner (gmeow:TeachingShape); co-taught learners share
#     ONE gmeow:Teaching rather than one Teaching each.
ex:lesson a gmeow:Teaching ;
    gmeow:teacher ex:mentor ;
    gmeow:learner ex:lillith, ex:rowan ;
    gmeow:subjectTaught ex:balancing ;
    rdfs:label "a group balancing lesson"@en .

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: schema

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to reify a teaching relation when the roles, period, or evidence of instruction matter — an instructor and the learners they taught, the subject covered — the being-taught complement of a learner's gmeow:LearningEvent.

Avoid when

• Avoid it for the 80% case where only the learner's acquisition matters (use a bare gmeow:LearningEvent with gmeow:learnedFrom the teacher) and never give the same agent both the gmeow:teacher and gmeow:learner role on one Teaching (gmeow:TeachingShape forbids it).

How to use

• Mint one gmeow:Teaching per teaching relation, bind the single gmeow:teacher (functional), one or more gmeow:learner, and the gmeow:subjectTaught; pair it with each learner's gmeow:LearningEvent (variety gmeow:learningBeingTaught) and retract a withdrawn role with gmeow:displayable false rather than deletion (Principle 10).

Examples

• ex:lesson1 a gmeow:Teaching; gmeow:teacher ex:mentor; gmeow:learner ex:lillith; gmeow:subjectTaught ex:cycling.

Use For Consumers

• gmeow:consumerAgentMemory
• gmeow:consumerInternalArchive

Avoid For Consumers

• gmeow:consumerFoafExport
• gmeow:consumerSchemaOrgJsonLd