Sentences with phrase «about community cohesion»

It reflects the president's understanding that resilience is only partly about infrastructure, agency funding and the like; it's also about community cohesion.

This is a powerpoint lesson that I used with Year 10 after another lesson about Community Cohesion (also uploaded on here).

Despite Britain's multi-faith society, schools are still required to include a collective act of worship of a Christian nature, while faith schools and religious academies have raised fears about community cohesion and covert selection.

«I don't believe that the debate about community cohesion should be reduced to a controversy about what a small number of Muslim women wear,» he said, referring to the recent row over the Muslim veil.

I ask myself what we can actually do about community cohesion.

Not exact matches

Titled «Trust in Crisis» - the report also claims faith communities are key to bringing about cohesion and are not the driver of division.

He told Premier what was positive about the results: «It's wonderful that we have seen across Europe that faith communities and other grass - root actors are becoming involved and are tackling the decline of trust in state - institutions by providing locally relevant forms of cohesion and solidarity.»

Though conventionally viewed as destructive of community, gossip, Samuel Heilman demonstrates, is essential for corporate cohesion.16 Telling tales about other members, even maliciously, is an important way of identifying and characterizing the congregation.

The campaign, whose slogan is «Not in Our Name» aims to enhance knowledge about the religion's teachings and to promote community cohesion.

Peers spoke out against the continuing power of «faith» schools to discriminate in admissions, the appointment of governors and the employment of staff, about homophobic bullying, about extremist (including creationist) groups setting up Free Schools with unbalanced curricula, about the need to repeal laws on collective worship and about the need to maintain community cohesion.

What we don't want to see, of course, is any kind of dilution in how thoroughly children are taught about the beliefs, religious or otherwise, of others, since such education plays a vital role in contributing to community cohesion and to literary, historical and cultural education.

I want to put it on record that we are deeply concerned about the paucity of information that we have received from the Home Office and about the implications, therefore, for community cohesion.

2.28 pm: Ed Miliband talked about quality of life issues in his opening speech and, in a session on the politics of responsibility, the higher education minister David Lammy spoke powerfully about the importance of building community cohesion.

A 2005 report by the Rand Corporation about the visual arts argues that the intrinsic pleasures and stimulation of the art experience do more than sweeten an individual's life — according to the report, they «can connect people more deeply to the world and open them to new ways of seeing,» creating the foundation to forge social bonds and community cohesion.

His mission has been about putting people at the heart of the environmental and heritage worlds — through learning in all its forms participation and community cohesion.

But I would really wonder about these groups who want to «promote community cohesion» by implication, in contrast to existing schools.

This theme of community cohesion could be somewhat undercut by the two planned DLC packs, featuring a number of extra items and an additional game mode, a concern about splitting the player base which Foge readily admits.

Along with other commissions by Margarita Cabrera and Pedro Reyes and extant works by Mario García Torres, Máximo González and Livia Corona, these projects collectively present the means for thinking about communities outside idealistic notions of cohesion and unified experience.