Sentences with phrase «as an academic discipline did»

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Theologians do not pretend to be engaged in value - free inquiry as do the practitioners of academic disciplines in general.

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.

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

Coming, as they often do, from families with a history of child and wife abuse, alcoholism, promiscuity, poor nutrition, a lack of discipline and low academic achievement, they find adjustment to stricter, often fundamentalist standards difficult.

«I don't think I know of anyone working here who studied science policy as an academic discipline,» he notes, «although there might be some around.

When they're done with that, they still have time to discuss what to do about students who need a little more academic help, or a little more discipline, or any other issues they need to work out as a team.

Adherence to standard textbook - based teaching means that nothing is being done to challenge this perception when it's all too clear that unlocking curiosity and wonderment across all academic disciplines is not only essential to the mastery of tests, but also key to ensuring that more students are inspired enough to pursue further study and even pursue teaching as a career later in life.

One could hardly imagine the story stirring teachers in other fields, either, for it didn't validate the arts as an academic discipline.

The academy is lambasted as a place where, like the larger society, «anyone who does not believe that rapacious capitalism is the only road to freedom and the good life is dismissed as a crank,» and «academic disciplines gain stature almost exclusively through their exchange value on the market.»

The first clearly and effectively traces the rise of curators as bestowers of value in the artworld (and elegantly glosses struggles for the control of value — between critics, dealers, artists and curators — along the way), up to the point at which curating's deskilling and populism means that everyone can do it and inherently contradicts the discipline's quest to professionalise itself via academic courses and qualifications.

34 And, much can be gained from reaching out to academics in other specialties who do have expertise in empirical work, potentially leading to interdisciplinary work that could reach a broader audience.35 Long sums up the point well: «If we want legal writing as a discipline to be taken seriously, we must be able to show, throughrigorous studies, that we engage in serious legal writing scholarship.»

The solutions discussed by the American Bar Association all have to do with how to train lawyers, as is its mandate under the task force mentioned above, but were does this leave law as an academic discipline?

I do not accept the characterization of the University's relationship with its students as a purely contractual matter, particularly when it comes to discipline for non academic misconduct.