Sentences with phrase «as formal studies»

Like Josef Albers paintings, these images can be read as formal studies of color relationships.

The two early series Etude sur le Mouvement (1960) and Chronomes (1963), separated on one floor from Détails, serve as formal studies in building structure through lines and dots.

Not exact matches

Ratings of non-school entrepreneurship education — such as self - study or Internet courses — also have declined in the U.S., although nowhere near as sharply as that of the formal programs.

As part of my academic studies, I spent time with Malagasy women, many of whom had managed to start small businesses despite limited formal education, a lack of mentorship and very limited access to capital.

Marking the 40th anniversary of the first formal meeting between Canada and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), this comprehensive study provides detailed snapshots of the 10 member economies of ASEAN as well as an assessment of the opportunities they represent for Canada.

Hell, even Al Jazeera says 10 thousand, not to mention several formal studies that say as many as 232 children per 100k were abused EVERY year during the 1990's.

Consideration of examples such as this may help to dispel the prejudice against the study of manners within the formal curriculum, by showing that people in other well - developed and successful cultures have considered the refinement of interpersonal relationships the central objective of education.

I'm sure this will be done through a medium more suitable for such a study such as a more formal article.

In formal interviews with craft beer drinkers — those who were solicited for the study as well as patrons that visited Ballast Point's eight tasting room locations — Constellation discovered that 58 percent of craft consumers prefer to drink beers that range between 4 percent and 6 percent alcohol by volume.

The home birth «midwives» in the USA have can have as little formal education as a high - school diploma and a self - study course.

And as anyone who has studied divorce knows, the formal marriage contract doesn't actually bind our future selves.

As Peter Gray outlines in his 2013 study of 75 grown homeschoolers, those children with the least number of formal schooling years (either in a classroom or homeschooled), were more likely to go on to post-secondary learning.

In the many responses to Gov. Cuomo's efforts to introduce formal and public teacher evaluation, teachers, union leaders and educational leaders have offered little but delaying tactics, such as more study is needed or how about conducting small trials.

«In addition to INSIGHTS» focus on individual children's strengths and needs, our study illustrates the importance of understanding and supporting classrooms as a whole at the transition to formal schools,» said McClowry, professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt and the study's senior author.

My husband and I spent our first few hours in Collata making formal presentations to the village officers, requesting permission to study two rare and precious objects that the community has guarded for centuries — bunches of twisted and colored cords known as khipus.

«Conducting formal readability testing, as suggested by the study authors, along with use of patient reviewers from a variety of educational and cultural backgrounds may provide important feedback to enhance the value of materials across a larger spectrum of health literacy levels.»

To be included in the review, studies had to measure psychosocial, physical and / or cognitive outcomes associated with formal volunteering — such as happiness, physical health, depression, cognitive functioning, feelings of social support and life satisfaction.

Dr. Nurkiewicz is internationally recognized as a leader and pioneer in this growing area of toxicology, and the WVU studies are the first formal investigations of their kind.

The study, which was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) as a part of the SAPPHIRE Programme, looked at the effect of stigma on how individuals with mental health problems accessed and engaged with formal services, including GPs, specialist mental health services and talking therapies.

Since it gained momentum as a formal field of study in the 1800s, ecology has focused on understanding interactions among organisms and their environments.

This led me to pursue formal education and training in psychiatric pharmacy as well as public health, which further inspired me to be involved in researching the utility of psychedelic substances in the treatment of illness,» explained study author Benjamin J. Malcolm of Western University of Health Sciences» College of Pharmacy.

To come to Lund University as an exchange student, your home university must have a formal agreement for exchange studies with Lund University.

This is a unified scientific project that aims to study the behavior of human beings as evolved biological organisms who live in groups, form networks and coalitions, are governed by formal institutions and informal norms, produce and exchange scarce resources and are motivated by identities, ideals and beliefs.

Traditional Midwives, sometimes referred to as lay midwives or community midwives, are uncertified or unlicensed midwives who often have informal education, such as apprenticeships or self - study, rather than a formal education from accredited institutions.

She began formal studies at the age of seventeen, including many diverse Yogic traditions such as Kripalu, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Anusara, Kundalini, Kriya, and Power Vinyasa Yoga.

Others, such as sleep apnea and narcolepsy, require a formal sleep study.

After at least a decade of formal study of serial killing as a cultural phenomenon, certain characteristics exclusive to this type of homicide have become apparent.

We are seeing making occurring in subject classes such as math or science — in classes specifically listed as maker classes — and in a variety of less formal settings such as clubs and study halls.

Informal and Formal Child Care Focus of New Harvard Study (Education Week) Coverage of the Early Learning Study at Harvard, research being done as part of the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative.

Typically, studies of leadership in education focus on «formal» leaders — the individuals who have official management roles, such as principals or superintendents.

The study, which also documents the prevalence of retention and transitional classes for children deemed unready for formal learning, was launched as part of an effort to explore ways to help children maintain the gains they make in preschool programs.

This template can be for their formal report or utilized as a study guide to develop their report for them to type or write on their own.

In 1963, researchers argued that «the teaching of formal grammar has a negligible or, because it usually displaces some instruction and practice in actual composition, even a harmful effect on the improvement of writing,» and over 250 studies since that time, as well as a meta - analysis from the Carnegie Corporation in 2011, have widely supported that statement.

The findings across these four studies suggested that demonstration lessons or modeling were employed by teacher leaders, but were not as widespread as less «formal» practices and that the occurrence of demonstration lessons decreased over time.

Findings from these studies indicated that teacher leaders engaged in «formal» (such as conference presentations or leading workshops) and «informal» (such as casual conversations with teachers) dissemination activities.

At the close of the study, NNPS coordinators in the urban district were working to have partnerships included in principals» formal evaluations as well.

As a result of the findings of this study, HLC developed formal guidelines for institutions and peer reviewers regarding dual credit programs and courses.

Importantly, studies also show that strategies such as formative assessment (formal and informal assessments conducted by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment) and metacognitive (awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes) approaches — techniques typically employed in personalized learning classrooms — improve student learning.

In 1994, Dru began his formal career in education as an English teacher at Harrisonburg High School in Virginia and then, in 1998, he discovered the joys of middle school in Georgia as a language arts, reading, and social studies teacher and then as a school administrator.

While a formal civics course is not offered until high school, kindergarten students learn to «identify personal traits, such as courage, honesty, and responsibility» and third - graders learn to «explain how local government officials are chosen, e.g., election, appointment,» according to the Idaho State Department of Education's social studies standards.22 By the time students reach 12th grade, they are more prepared to learn civics - related topics, such as the electoral process and role of political parties; the methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, than students with no prior exposure to a civics curriculum.

These studies tracked teachers as they moved from programs to develop their skills as leaders into formal teacher leader roles.

The center's team has documented its protocols and procedures as part of a formal research study, and those findings will be shared with shelters and rescue groups around the country.

Up till then, my formal Spanish studies had been limited to five years in middle and high school, during which I definitely didn't pay as much attention as I should have.

Going beyond the practice of artists such as Picasso or Pollock, who utilized the formal aspects of non-Western artworks in their painting, Green has extensively studied the thought and methodology behind Aboriginal art - making.

The gestural abstraction of Yayoi Kusama's ongoing series of Infinity Net paintings and her important large - scale accumulation sculpture Prisoner's Door provides a formal counterpoint to the geometric abstraction of Conrad Shawcross's Perimeter Studies sequence and Plosion sculpture, which take theories of cosmic expansion and contraction as their starting point.

Born in North Manchester, Indiana, Garber began his formal art training at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1897 where he studied for one year with landscape and figure painter Vincent Nowottny and fraternized with the followers of Frank Duveneck known as the «Duveneck Boys.»

Lehigh University Art Galleries • Teaching Museum (LUAG) inspires, develops, and promotes visual literacy and cultural understanding through cross-disciplinary educational opportunities that supplement formal classroom study, as an educational laboratory to benefit students, faculty, and the community - at - large as part of the university learning experience.

Although formally educated in art and graphic design, he attribute his development as a painter through experimentation and the actual process of painting more than any formal academic studies.

LUAG inspires develops and promotes visual literacy and cultural understanding through cross-disciplinary educational opportunities that supplement formal classroom study as an educational laboratory to benefit students, faculty, and the community - at - large as part of the university learning experience.

One of Britain's most original and inventive sculptors, Penelope Curtis, former director of Tate Britain, has described Flanagan as «a maverick figure but a maverick who was absolutely central to the artistic conversation of the 1960s and 70s».2 One of the influential generation of artists studying at St Martin's School of Art in the early to mid-1960s, Flanagan reacted against the formal rigidity of sculpture at that time, challenging the nature of the medium and contributing to a new understanding of the practice.