Sentences with phrase «address issues of social justice»

Mudbound won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, a prize fully - funded by author Barbara Kingsolver, awarded to previously unpublished first novels that address issues of social justice.

The award annually honors a doctoral dissertation that «manifests academic excellence, originality, and methodological, theoretical, and empirical rigor, and that addresses issues of social justice and equity in an international context.»

This powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN / Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.

The mission of the Prize — given to a first - time novelist — is to «advocate serious literary fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships.»

Ko's timely, assured debut received major critical acclaim before it was even published, as Barbara Kingsolver awarded it the 2016 PEN / Bellwether Prize for Fiction (given to a novel that addresses issues of social justice).

The Bellwether Prize, which was established in 2000 by Barbara Kingsolver and is funded entirely by her, was created to promote fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships.

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(21) They must be hospitable to the whole family of God, enabling the family members in their diversity to address with integrity the whole range of issues that divide us, issues of Christology and ecclesiology, issues of culture, race, and gender, issues of social justice and the integrity of creation.

By Jon Sparkes With terms like «social justice» and «tackling inequality» being used by all main political parties in recent years, and the political rhetoric increasingly shifting to the need for addressing the «root causes» of social issues, one would be inclined to believe that homelessness, one of the most acute forms of poverty, is in decline.

A civil rights lawyer and advocate for racial and social justice, Ms. Wiley joined the de Blasio administration in early 2014 to focus on legal issues as well as on the mayor's efforts to address issues of inequality.

It provides a brief overview of key socio - ethical issues and discusses the application of social justice to address the challenges.

She is involved with and an advocate for community partnerships aimed at overcoming the barriers of access to mental health services as a means of addressing social justice issues that are prominent in our society.

In addition to this reflection, it is crucial that our institution actively recruits faculty and supports curricula that directly address issues of race, urban inequality, ethnic studies, and social justice.

By failing to take the need for states to address this problem seriously, small - schools advocates seem to ignore the broader issues of social justice that they work so hard to address in their own schools.

So far REMIX has presented the film OT: Our Town, which documented a Compton, California high school's production of the American stage classic, Our Town; and has hosted a conversation about hip - hop in education, and the ways it can be used as a tool in classrooms to address issues of literacy, race, and social justice.

By analyzing and addressing issues of equity and social justice, we believe artists and arts educators can make unique contributions to education and social change.

A passion for issues of equity and social justice is a hallmark of HGSE and is shared by students in AIE, where we explore the particular ways in which the arts can help help address these issues.

As the son of an educator and activists, El - Mekki had a strong desire to dive into a cause that would address issues relating to social justice, equity and educational opportunities.

Critical pedagogy extends critical theory - the neo-Marxist examination of the relationship between power and culture, aimed at addressing issues of class, race, gender, and social justice through the remaking of societal institutions - to the realm of schools.

She was selected to participate in Leadership for Learning, an innovative, cohort - based program that emphasized the link between leadership and learning, as well as the development of leaders willing and able to address and redress issues of equity and social justice.

When we introduce our teacher candidates to critical literacy in our English language arts program, some of them are reticent to addresses issues of gender, equity, and social justice with students in the early years.

APP prepares the type of public school leaders who are needed most — those who are committed to social justice and have the skills to galvanize communities to address issues of educational equity.»

The questions, although broad, do not necessarily address social justice issues like the social policies that influence graduation requirements, the aspirations of students with special needs, including those diagnosed with mental health and behaviour issues, the needs of ESL students arriving during their teenage years, etc..

As the son of an educator and activists, I had a strong desire to dive into a cause that would address issues relating to social justice, equity and educational opportunities.

Organizations like the Green Belt Movement have addressed deforestation and privatization as an environmental and a social justice issue, connecting the dots between colonization and economic inequalities, between the lack of land rights and social oppression.

Instead of viewing poverty, debt, human rights, social justice, environmentalism and women's rights as isolated issues, Maathai has deftly addressed their connectivity and the relationships between them.

We favor investments such as those mitigating the impacts of fossil fuels in energy - intensive industries, promoting energy efficiency, or otherwise addressing environmental and social justice issues.

Deeply influenced by their Southern roots, both artists mine the landscapes around them for found objects (a nod to Rauschenberg's «combines») and address issues of ecological and social justice.

His curatorial projects have addressed issues of collaboration, experimentation, social justice, and archival practices in contemporary art.

This year's festival will directly address several pressing issues that are part of America's current sociopolitical landscape through performances and accompanying events, with highlights including an artist talk with dancers Jon Boogz and Lil Buck centered on dance as a tool for social justice and prison reform.

Jenny Holzer is known for making work that addresses social justice and political issues, most commonly raising awareness to incidents of human rights abuse.

The work of artists including Ed Atkins, Simon Denny, Cécile B. Evans, Isa Genzken, Josh Kline, Hito Steyerl, Hank Willis Thomas, and Anicka Yi addresses issues like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, bioethics, surveillance, social justice, and virtual existence.

Hard Edged is a group exhibition that illustrates the rich interplay of tradition, innovation, and individual talent among a group of artists of African descent whose work in geometrical abstraction addresses issues including as feminism, identity, colonialism, stereotypes, family relations, and social justice.

Founded by filmmaker Paul Haggis, Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ) is a non-profit organization that encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty around theJustice (APJ) is a non-profit organization that encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty around thejustice and addresses issues of poverty around the world.

So the movement we're talking about, the unnamed movement of environmental social justice and indigenous organizations, are forming and collecting to address the salient issues of our time: in poverty and water and climate and the enormous inequities that exist economically in the world, the continuous and rapid degradation of our resource bases, the injustice of pollution itself, in terms of what it does to people's health and their children.

However, I believe that given the severity of climate change and the threat that it poses, our first priority should be that of addressing it in the most effective way possible, and I would prefer to avoid individuals attempting to use the issue of climate change as a vehicle for one version or another of ideologically - motivated syndicalist or socialist «social justice.»

Meaning a solo, small law firm or a huge law firm that takes up 10 floors in a major office building in downtown, they would begin to explicitly and consistently over the long term address issues of equity and social justice in their business as usual.

High school youth from various schools gather every two weeks to focus in on an area of social justice involving today's youth and work together on a project that will be presented on how to address some of these issues.

The Social Justice Game Jam is seeking games that in some way promote awareness of or address some of the civil justice Justice Game Jam is seeking games that in some way promote awareness of or address some of the civil justice justice issues.

A social lab / developmental evaluation approach may be the most effective way to pilot new ideas and new procedures, but I suggest that it may not be suitable to addressing the more fundamental systemic issues that underpin family justice processes, assuming of course that those issues need to be addressed at all.

Taking the concept of open access in libraries and applying it to access to social justice and the self - represented the legal aid briefing documents / summaries on the law in question should be open to the public and recommended to the public to improve court processes and the sate of the law on the issues being addressed.

a. law; b. social policy; and c. the administration of justice through the identification of areas and issues needing study and analysis and the encouragement and support of projects to address those needs.

The Social Justice Report highlights those critical issues that must be properly addressed for the new arrangements to provide the potential benefits and not to repeat or make worse any mistakes of the past.

In my Social Justice Report I draw attention to 19 examples of successful programs which use a range of approaches to address this issue: community education; healing; alcohol management; men's groups; family support and child protection; safe houses; and programs for offenders.

Twenty - five years ago, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) found that these social and health issues can be determinants of contact with the justice system, and need to be addressed in order to end the over-representation of Indigenous people in custody.

The Social Justice Report identifies the warning signs where the current federal system for Indigenous affairs is not capable of addressing these core issues due to significant policy errors.

The Tenets empower individual practitioners, agencies and systems of care to identify and address the social justice issues intricately intertwined with all infant mental health work.

In drafting this section of the Native Title Report 2011 and the Social Justice Report 2011, I have been concerned about achieving a balance between what may be seen as the promotion of yet more negative views about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the need to address an issue that has serious implications for us as peoples.

It employs activities such as walking groups, healing art camps, men's groups and recently a one - day men's forum on justice issues, as part of its holistic approach to addressing the emotional and social wellbeing of its participants as well as lateral violence.

The Social Justice Commissioner's Social Justice Report 2001 provides a detailed account of where there have been improvements and where there has been a lack of progress in addressing issues relating to the contact of Indigenous peoples with the criminal justice Justice Commissioner's Social Justice Report 2001 provides a detailed account of where there have been improvements and where there has been a lack of progress in addressing issues relating to the contact of Indigenous peoples with the criminal justice Justice Report 2001 provides a detailed account of where there have been improvements and where there has been a lack of progress in addressing issues relating to the contact of Indigenous peoples with the criminal justice justice system.

I wish to address an issue which relates specifically to the functions that I have been appointed to fulfill - namely the proposal in the Bill to abolish the specialist position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and replace it with a generalist human rights commissioner.