Sentences with phrase «academic thinking on»

The books below lay out the history of graphic novels, their standing among the arts, and the most current academic thinking on their utility today, specifically at an educational mindset with an eye toward the concerns and thoughts of librarians.

The usefulness of a source that brings together current academic thinking on so important a topic is beyond question.

Not exact matches

«We think of it as a marketing campaign that begins as soon as people step foot on the campuses where we recruit,» she says, noting the company only targets students with stellar academic credentials who have shown clear evidence of leadership.

While the content can seem a bit dense and academic at times — the essays are, after all, written by some of the nation's leading thinkers on business issues — the website is a potentially valuable resource for policy makers and anyone thinking about starting a new business.

For answers, he went first to academic research on the subject, and then thought back on his own experience as an entrepreneur.

The academic assessments of QE are mixed at best depending on the author and what school of economics most influences their thinking.

Academics at the AEI, a free - market think tank, have hit on what may be a simple solution to the nation's home - loan morass: replace the 30 - year mortgage with a 15 - year product that quickly gets borrowers» skin in the game.

At Oakmark, we believe that the academic view on stocks is largely, but not completely, correct: We think that most of the time, most stocks are priced about right — but not always, and never each and every stock.

Now let's take the academic speak out of the above and simply say that if you base the scorecard on what you think buyer's value versus actually going out to talk to buyers and using qualitative methods to uncover values — it will be of no particular use.

Smart Mobility Panel Featuring thought leaders in transportation and urban planning, Onramp's panel discussion will focus on the intersection of public, private and academic collaboration when it comes to the future of driving innovation.

Your tastes are above reproach and your musical canon has been arrived at after more academic thought than a doctoral dissertation on the «Ebb and Flow of The Mental Qualitative State Due to the Societal Imperatives of Pezz Dispensers.»

On the Holocaust, for instance, asks McKenna, what if a free - thinking academic were to argue thus: «The Nazis did terrible things, but their mistake was in the minor premise.

His legacy of writings and the Faith movement remain a remarkable achievement for someone who never really held any academic posts but was, in his quiet way, a «charismatic» figure, much loved by many and whose thinking and unique apostolate had a profound effect, especially on the young.

I thought of this recently as I re-read Harvard's report on the humanities «Mapping the Future» in light of the debate over academic freedom that Peter Lawler addressed.

Thus the onus to foster the conversation is awkwardly placed on students or young faculty members, those living in the tensions between the academic and apologetic worlds and who feel the most pressure and enthusiasm for synthetic thinking.

To a young academic such as I was, facing the corrosive impact of critical theory on higher education, Newman's ecclesiastical polemic against the «suicidal excesses» of unfettered human thought retained a powerful relevance.

If one means, for instance, an epistemological privilege of the oppressed, in the sense that the poor, the suffering and the dispossessed have some intuitive knowledge of God, righteousness and social reality not available to others; if one means that victims know best how to overcome their condition and build new institutions; and if one means that knowledge based on «experience» makes academic excellence unnecessary, then liberation thought and the Social Gospel diverge.

Questions which the body politic or the academic world are unwilling to confront head - on are often dealt with through the medium of, say, science fiction: think of the Matrix films, or a novel such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

The bulk of academic writing in my discipline is not really writing but a collection of marks on paper put down in response to similar marks put down in response to other marks put down in response to... The authors of these texts do not have a conception of writing as an art, or of the need for the imagery, inflection, and rhythm that hold open the mind of the reader so that the thought can slip past them into his soul.

And that tendency has been continually associated with a striving towards academic excellence on the part of the educators, and a diffidence towards venturesome thinking (or at least expression) on the part of churchmen.

They may pretend to not notice lively and deep academic debates going on between real thinking Christians and real thinking atheists.

Nobody really believes that the effects of radical thought on mainstream marriage or sexual life has been altogether positive, and «radical feminism» has been displaced largely (outside the academic world) with a chastened defense of women's rights (and some appreciation of the dilemma of the resulting birth dearth, lonely single moms, and all that).

A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very» much to the heart of current scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).

And that tendency has been continually associated with a striving toward academic excellence on the part of the educators and a diffidence toward venturesome thinking (or at least expression) on the part of churchmen.

In the longest sections on One Mediator, the primary, though not exclusive, addressee is the Catholic academic community in India and the East which the ODF thought was compromising the church's teaching on the Unique Mediator in its conversations with world religions.

References to «truth in advertising» are usually in the claim that courses on Catholic theology should teach Catholic theology — what the Magisterium of the Church teaches — not what alienated academics think the Church should teach.

The people who know far more about this than academics are the mystics: hear some of their thoughts on the role of natural intelligence.

If your mates are academic you will probably finish that post graduate qualification you've been thinking about for ages and if your pals wear cutting - edge make - up even to the supermarket or on a run, you will think twice before postponing that hair dressers appointment to cover up those grey hairs.

i think the whole world knows whats going on at Arsenal, lets not forget AW academic achievements (undergraduate degree at the faculty of engineering and took a master's degree in economics from the University of Starsbourg) basically he knows his shi7 when it comes to economics so his not the village idiot and knows exactly whats going on and equally guilty with the board if there is a blame

To some degree, I view the reliance on scouting reports rather then original thought academic writing damage or the safety of the pack.

I DO THINK THE NEED TO DISAGREE ON WENGER WILL BE ACADEMIC VERY SOON, WHEN HE IS GONE.

Through a curriculum based on the developmental stages of the human being and on the integration of art and academics, our children learn to meet the world with clear and creative thinking, compassion and moral strength, and with the courage and freedom to act.

This education, built on a strong academic foundation which incorporates the arts, also brings forth creative imagination, critical thinking, self - confidence, and a sense of delight, wonder and respect for nature and humanity.

This education, built on a strong academic foundation, also brings forth creative imagination, critical thinking, self - confidence, and a sense of delight, wonder and respect for nature and humanity.

My sister pinned another badge on me, one of «snob» — she thought I acted like one and I was too busy with academics to socialize, and I really did not care.

The focus on imitative and imaginative play in the early childhood program develops the power of creative thinking, preparing children for the academics of the grade school years and beyond.

And no matter how well a child performs on academic tests, she'll have a hard time in life if she gets so stressed out she can't think straight.

Goer has also written The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth, which gives pregnant women access to the research evidence, as well as consumer education pamphlets and articles for trade, consumer, and academic periodicals; and she guest posts on Lamaze International's Science & Sensibility.

We would never, I would think, allow a system in which admision to an expensive academic course — one that requires laboratory supplies and equipment, like chemistry — was based on ability to pay.

Or perhaps because my academic love language is found in reading, writing, and analyzing the written word while formulas and laws have a numbing effect on my thought processes.

But new research that suggests breastfeeding can significantly improve academic achievement later in life is offering food for thought on the impact of neonatal nutrition.

I don't think many women will be alarmed by the thought of their political prospects being diminshed by a smaller Commons because women, generally, aren't as interested in politics as the academic argument on gender representation makes them out to be.

There is often excellent blogging in more specialist spaces - academic, scientific, liberties / legal, environmental - which sometimes the political blogs pick up on, but there isn't that much linkage, and there might sometimes be some value in thinking specifically about the linking spaces.

TN: I think one of the interesting things about the argument for the need to strip things back to basics is that it comes at a time when a lot of the academic literature has gone the other way and is obsessed with adding things on.

The University of Birmingham established a Policy Commission on the Distribution of Wealth in September of last year to bring leading figures from the public, private and third sectors together with Birmingham academics to generate new thinking on this issue.

«It may be dressed up in academic think - tank language, but this is no more than a crude attack on basic workplace rights and a charter for bad bosses everywhere,» she said, dredging up the spectre of Margaret Thatcher's premiership and telling the authors to «get out more».

If he were to lose the leadership election he would go immediately I think, but this is a man who spends almost all his time on policy issues, he has little life outside politics and has spent all his life since his teens on either academic or political pursuits, I'm sure he would find his own nature militating for him to continue and he would probably see a General Election loss with him as PM as something he had to rectify.

Why Students Need Professors» Perspective on Family Issues After bucking her mother's advice to remain childless, Donna Nelson, a committed and successful academic chemist, urges that any scientist thinking about becoming a parent should seek the counsel of their more experienced colleagues.

My academic CV, which went on and on about kinetics, fluorescence, and other things that would have sent someone outside my field running, was thrown in the fire, and I started thinking hard about what transferable skills I had gained during my time in academia.

Now, I am sure you are also thinking about the possible repercussions of turning the spotlight on your PI's academic dishonesty.