Sentences with phrase «agrarian school»

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Prof Carlos Peres, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «We analysed satellite imagery of the 1911 agrarian settlements allocated to 568 counties across the entire Brazilian Amazon.

Given an agrarian society with poor transportation, schools could only draw enough students to populate one - room schoolhouses.

In the 16th century schools have replaced the fieldwork and factory work; with the agrarian, industrial and information age education has been becoming gradually a tool to create better workers.

Think of all the times reformers have mocked «the factory model» of schooling, voiced exasperation that classrooms look the same today as they did one hundred years ago, and lamented that the school calendar still reflects an agrarian economy.

On the most basic level, we should be asking: Why are students attending school from September to June as they did when we were an agrarian economy?

Changes to the nature of work from agrarian to factory during the mid-19th century, combined with westward expansion, further encouraged a fragmented system of academies to give way to widespread public schooling.

Her forthcoming book, Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education (Oxford University Press) examines the educational initiatives of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), a national social movement of rural workers struggling for agrarian reform.

We're still waiting for America to replace an agrarian 19th century school calendar with an information age calendar that increases learning time on a par with other countries.

«Our current model of schools is a legacy of a historical system, which was created to address the shift from an agrarian society to an industrial one.

Morandi turned away from the arty pretentions of the Metaphysical School to embrace the values of the Strapaese (super country) movement, a nationalist group that glorified Italy's agrarian identity.