Sentences with phrase «academic understanding of»

We discuss the academic understanding of forgiveness and how to forgive for good, something that so many people struggle with.

Whilst we believe that this book offers some new concepts that will add to the academic understanding of the problem and some insights that will help practitioners deal with alienation more effectively, Understanding Parental Alienation has written specifically for parents, with the intention of putting as much power into your hands as possible.

Might I suggest what is needed is not papers on the public understanding of science, but instead the academic understanding of science.

The Studio Museum's exhibitions expand the personal, public, and academic understanding of modern and contemporary work by artists of African descent.

I think I had a reasonably good academic understanding of what slavery is like.

They argued that there is a growing professional and academic understanding of the use of classroom observation and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.

This requires basic academic understanding of how team works and how to motivate individuals, especially those working for little or no pay.

Others, perhaps those with a stricter, academic understanding of feminism, will be disappointed not actually to discover a valid segment of feminism that has been lost among the shuffling conversation Mobley primarily set out to interpret Montgomery's great theme» «The emancipation of women through the gospel of Jesus Christ»» but because he tangled his interpretation with the controversial vocabulary of feminism, he will not please everyone.

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PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

Dumping them out in the dead of summer with only friendly academics to support them suggests that the government did not understand what lay further down the track.

What started as an arcane ideal debated a few years ago by techno - academics has become an issue that a good portion of the general public understands.

But last year, academic and consultant Kevin Timoney argued that the rising use of in situ methods has outpaced Alberta's ability to understand and manage what's happening underground.

Though savvy investors, like Shakespeare's Antonio, have long understood the benefits of diversification, it was not until the 1950s when an academic named Harry Markowitz introduced research on what he called modern portfolio theory that people were able to understand diversification in an objective, mathematical sense.

Neither this article nor that post are investment recommendations but, rather, an academic overview meant to help you understand the structure, purpose, and benefits of holding companies in certain specific contexts.

We are dedicated to helping students achieve academic success, foster financial literacy and gain a greater understanding of the finance industry.

As organizations continue to raise tens, sometimes hundreds, of millions of dollars in each token sale, it grows increasingly important for industry leaders, lawyers, policymakers, and academics to understand both the ICO regulatory landscape and the economic and technological attributes of the cryptocurrency and ICO space.

It may have taken a surprisingly long time for analysts to understand why the credit process made rebalancing both urgent and inevitable, but it was clear to many economists, especially among Chinese academics, that severe distortions had been building at least since the beginning of the last decade.

It is important to Micro Focus that academic institutions help their students and staff develop an in - depth understanding and knowledge of our industry standard products and solutions.

Alternative Money University will help 30 qualified students to develop such an understanding by participating in an intensive academic workshop about monetary history, the theory and practice of monetary policy, and the workings of unconventional monetary arrangements.

All in all, it was a great experience to meet people of various age groups and diverse academic backgrounds come together under one platform to understand and relate with a simple and holistic approach to money, life and ofcourse, investing.

AAII starts sponsorship of annual research awards presented to academic research papers that furthers the understanding of investments.

«Professor Siddiqui, supported by a panel with a strong balance of academic, religious and legal expertise, will help us better understand whether and the extent to which Sharia law is being misused or exploited and make recommendations to the government on how to address this.»

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

The difference between the author's insightful understanding of her chaplaincy role, and her professor's understanding of that role, illustrates the fundamental difference between a pastor and an academic theologian.

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

It is reassuring that many of our current religious organizations understand that our nondiscrimination policy poses no threat to their religious freedom,» Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Richard McCarty said in a press release.

As Whitehead's thought became better understood among academic theologians and philosophers, it attracted a small but staunch group of followers who found his explanation of God to be both intellectually satisfying and religiously credible.

Since conceptual capacities needed to understand God include capacities that are «existentially» significant while at the same time fully as rational and as rigorously disciplined as any other capacities to understand anything else, can academic schooling be understood adequately simply as the acquisition of capacities for disciplined accumulation and mastery of data and capacities for critical and self - critical theorizing (cf the «Berlin» model)?

Or the quest for understanding that lies at the core of a school will be marginalized, trivialized («Academics are all right for those so inclined, but are finally fairly irrelevant to the life of a congregation»), and unduly constrained.

Apart from academic specialists, American interest in Islam has been limited largely to people concerned about the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East, or to friends of Israel who want to understand their enemy.

I had not come from a church background, and had little to no understanding of theology as a spiritual exercise or an academic discipline.

This isolates theological wisdom into «academic disciplines» which then seem irrelevant, and it empties practice (what ministers do as ministers) of theological understanding.

Their whole analysis of decline hangs on a prescriptive or normative understanding of church - relatedness, and that normative understanding resembles suspiciously what the colleges were, or at least claimed to be, sometime earlier in the century, in perhaps some «golden age» of church - relatedness (and, unfortunately, often concomitant ethnic insularity and academic mediocrity).

Part of what is wrong with all the academic disciplines is that their shared understanding of the way knowledge should be pursued and organized is wrong from a Buddhist or Christian perspective.

One can not understand the current conflicts apart from the history of the field's comparatively recent emergence as an academic subject.

The academic speaks of «my research,» research which is conducted alone, which is recognized or understood by very few, and which is compensated primarily by a gain in scholarly reputation.

Indeed, he understands the country better than many American academics do and has some illuminating comments to make about American religion: «Although the European media chooses to ignore it, the US has an extraordinary range of religious public intellectuals....

Curran is a dissident Catholic moral theologian who was effectively checked by Cardinal James Hickey of Washington when he tried to impose his understanding of academic freedom on Catholic University.

I am myself part of a university which, like all academic institutions, considers itself to be a community attempting to arrive at a reasonable understanding of things.

Understood and I edited the «your» to «the» but you do seem to have some affinity with the premise of the argument here and not purely an academic pursuit, which would be fine of course.

If such relatively affluent communities do in fact attempt to move beyond their technically and psychologically sophisticated understandings of themselves to tell their household stories, they will encounter there the narrative of groups deprived of technical and academic sophistication who have little but story by which to understand and modify their corporate existence.

Even so, there are some basic outlines that circumscribe academic communities: their face - to - face quality, their common pursuit of knowledge and understanding, and their integral character, the sense in which the quality of the individual's thought and the quality of the communities» thinking are mutually dependent upon one another.

And when Max Weber, in his famous address Wissenschaft als Beruf, sought to shape the self - understanding of the modern academy, he did so by insisting that the academic realm, like the political and economic realms, had become and would remain governed by means - end rationality and by impersonal constraints.

We tend to have a very artificial if not, purely academic, understanding of heaven.

In a word, I think most people (except, perhaps, we academics) will understand that our use of physical metaphors in moral discourse does not imply that physical health is morally normative.

While he never regarded himself as an academic theologian, he transformed our understanding of the Christian faith by making the practice of justice an essential ingredient of its identity.

I find it incredible that a commitment to Christianity is supposed to be irrelevant to an understanding of academic freedom.

The control of the written word by aristocrats, clergy; academics, and politicians skews our understanding of culture and history in the West — a history portrayed by those in control of society.

In addition, I am mindful that adopting the type of freedom I am proposing would most likely bring Notre Dame into conflict with the American Association of University Professors» understanding of academic freedom.

That wacky dissertation symbolized a culture of academic malpractice that could never be acceptable to a man who had once believed that the university was where all the darkness of Plato's cave of illusions would burn away in the bright sun of understanding.