Sentences with phrase «as models of education»

As such, the roles of teachers and students have evolved as our models of education have moved from one iteration to another.

And far many more benefited as the Church aided the poor, treated the sick and helped assimilate wave uponwave of immigrants... Neighborhoods were anchored by parish churches, and by parochial schools that still serve as models of education.»

Tyack & Cuban: «Reformers expected the kindergarten to be a cure for urban social evils as well as a model of education for young children... When public sponsorship took the place of private, an early casualty was the outreach program that sent kindergarten teachers into the homes of the pupils.»

I suggest that our administration look to Sidwell Friends as a model of education.

Sanders mentions KIPP charter schools in particular, as a model of education he has «reservations» about.

A report from the Confederation of British Industry, First Steps, showcases Finland as a model of an education system that delivers outstanding results both for its children and for the economy.

Not exact matches

A quick aside as to why Stratechery doesn't have an app, then a review of Apple's educational event, and why the company's business model limits it in education relative to Google.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Through real estate I feel I'll be able to have the freedom to make my own path; choose what type of business model i see could work; education myself in the subjects that are actually important in life; and finally the ability to choose family over work as opposed to hoping to find time for family.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

And in 2015, Duncan, Obama's secretary of education, pointed to his old friend's district as a national role model and invited Runcie to speak at a White House panel called «Rethink School Discipline.»

students in social and church placements in their first semester onward; it involved the entire faculty as well as field supervisors in a process of collaborative learning; and it was based on the clinical pastoral education model.

In current discussions of the nature and purpose of theological education Edward Farley has invoked the older of these two models of excellence in schooling when he describes his book Theologia as an essay «which purports to promote a Christian paideia.»

We may let it serve as the symbol for the rise of paideia as the model of excellence in theological education.

From the second century on, the Christian thing has been understood as a kind of «forming» of persons» lives on the model of education as paideia.

However, as we shall see in the next chapter, in the modern world it is not possible simply to settle for paideia as the model of excellent education.

Not only does Wood distance himself from the «Berlin» model's picture of what is involved in education in Wissenschaft he also rejects its definition of theological education as professional schooling: «Theological education is not necessarily professional education for ministry, but the heart of proper professional education for ministry is theological education» (93).

It continually amazes me that presumably mature students, more and more of them second - career people in their 40s and 50s, regress so quickly in the current adolescent model of education and regard the seminary as in loco parentis.

The primacy of the family in education rests upon the spontaneous devotion of parents to their children — a devotion that supplies a model for the relation between teacher and pupil and that is undermined when education is regarded as a direct responsibility of the state.

The endowments of the wealthiest universities should be taxed to fund a common purse for education that can be spent on tuition tax credits to help all Americans afford some form of post-high school education, which is what we need today as the old student loan model becomes burdensome for young people.

Thus the adoption of the Berlin model in prestigious universities changed the nature of college education as well.

Historians of American higher education generally point to the founding in 1876 of Johns Hopkins University, the first graduate university in the United States, as the moment when the «Berlin» model became decisive for American higher education.

Don S. Browning, The Moral Context of Pastoral Care (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976); Thomas Downs, The Parish as Learning Community: Modeling for Parish and Adult Growth (New York: Paulist Press, 1979); Thomas H. Groome, Christian Religious Education: Sharing Our Story and Our Vision (New York: Harper & Row, 1980); C. Ellis Nelson, Where Faith Begins (Richmond: John Knox Press, 1967); John H. Westerhoff, Will Our Children Have Faith?

The current discussion of what's theological about theological education can be read as the first discussion of theological schooling in which both models of excellence are explicitly engaged.

The central «positive» moral about how best to negotiate between these two models is this: Focus on the nature of the basic movement of theological study as a theological question, not as a question about the psychology of learning, nor even as a question about the logical relations among various subjects studied in theological education.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

On the other hand, if you appropriate the «Berlin» model's stress on Wissenschaft on the «Athens» model's terms (wissenschaftlich education as paideia - like «formation» in capacities for critical inquiry) do not suppose that you can omit the other pole of «professional» education, for as we have seen, Wissenschaft is theologically relevant only insofar as it is tied to church leadership roles.

However, do not suppose that it is theologically sufficient to appropriate «Athens» solely into the «professional» education pole of theological education on the «Berlin» model's terms (construing «professional» education as, say, paideia into the habitus of faith).

Due to its understanding of education as the reshaping of a child's soul (in contrast to «discovery» models of education, for example), the method tends to develop thinkers defined by who they are instead of workers defined by what they do....

General Physical Activity: The State Board of Education's Position Statement on School Wellness (2006) recommends the provision of physical activity outside of physical education class, including time and opportunities for vigorous physical activity during the school day and opportunities and encouragement for staff to model healthy eating and physical activity habits as a valuable party of daEducation's Position Statement on School Wellness (2006) recommends the provision of physical activity outside of physical education class, including time and opportunities for vigorous physical activity during the school day and opportunities and encouragement for staff to model healthy eating and physical activity habits as a valuable party of daeducation class, including time and opportunities for vigorous physical activity during the school day and opportunities and encouragement for staff to model healthy eating and physical activity habits as a valuable party of daily life.

Volume XIV, Number 2 The Social Mission of Waldorf School Communities — Christopher Schaefer Identity and Governance — Jon McAlice Changing Old Habits: Exploring New Models for Professional Development — Thomas Patteson and Laura Birdsall Developing Coherence: Meditative Practice in Waldorf School College of Teacher — Kevin Avison Teachers» Self - Development as a Mirror of Children's Incarnation: Part II — Renate Long - Breipohl Social - Emotional Education and Waldorf Education — David S. Mitchell Television in, and the World's of, Today's Children — Richard House Russia's History, Culture, and the Thrust Toward High - Stakes Testing: Reflections on a Recent Visit — David S. Mitchell Da Valdorvuskii!

It is teacher - intenstive for parents who are stretched for time, and it is specialist - intensive from the school model with separate teachers for so many of the subjects that make up what homeschoolers see as the beauty of Waldorf education — foreign languages, games and eurythmy, handwork, orchestra and voice and band, drama.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

The Austrian Federal Institute for Education Research, Innovation and Development of the Austrian School System (BIFIE) recommends Steiner Waldorf schools as models for teaching in the sciences.

As a condensed model of our early childhood classrooms, this weekly class serves to familiarize interested families with Waldorf education.

Topics: «Birth and Obstetric Training as a Rite of Passage,» «Three Paradigms of Birth and Health Care,» «Birth Centers in the Technocracy,» «Models of Midwifery Education: A Global Tour.»

Breastfeeding: Training Materials Infant and young child feeding: Model Chapter for textbooks for medical students and allied health professionals (2009) English [pdf 3.12 Mb]- Spanish [pdf 1.2 Mb]- World Health Organization This Model Chapter brings together essential knowledge about infant and young child feeding that health professionals should acquire as part of their basic education.

This Model Chapter brings together essential knowledge about infant and young child feeding that health professionals should acquire as part of their basic education.

It simply means that they have had hands - on, supervised training (in a variety of settings), have successfully pursued appropriate education, have demonstrated their knowledge to a certifying body, have agreed to operating within a defined scope of practice as defined by their professional association, and have committed to on - going efforts to remain abreast of current evidence specific to the burgeoning field of lactation... just like every other healthcare profession within the medical model.

Our work within education and to promote social integration has also been viewed as a model of best practice.

He has some familiar and vague promises and catchphrases about improving education, public safety, and employment — in his words, turning the Bronx into «the Silicon Valley of the East» — but he said he sells himself to the voters as a populist hero and role model.

Raufnomics, coined by Aregbesola's associates, was launched last year as a shorthand for his profitable use of strategic planning and an innovative economic model to transform the lives of the people of Osun through mass - based and people - centered programmes and projects, especially in education, health care, infrastructural development, youth employment, and social welfare.

Five Buffalo teachers — supported by NYSUT — filed legal papers today with the State Education Department seeking the removal of school board member Carl Paladino for «racially inflammatory statements» about Obama, the first lady and African - Americans that have violated his duty to serve as a role model for the school community.

«During her seven - year tenure with the State University of New York, Nancy Zimpher has transformed SUNY and lifted our system up as the national model of higher education for the 21st century,» said H. Carl McCall, chairman of the SUNY board.

Black has no experience with education and fits, as Liz Benjamin noted, the Bloomberg model of a business leader morphing into a government role.

The current higher education funding model will become unsustainable as hundreds of thousands of new university places will be needed by 2030,...

«During her seven - year tenure with the State University of New York, Nancy Zimpher has transformed SUNY and lifted our system up as the national model of higher education for the 21st century,» said McCall.

On Jan. 13, after the Department of Education had walked out of talks on the evaluation process for 33 schools that were to be part of schools improvement models known as Transformation and Restart, UFT President Michael Mulgrew formally asked that PERB appoint a mediator, an appointment that in effect would mandate that the DOE restart the talks.

Funding Undergraduate Education SHPE was founded in Los Angeles by a group of Hispanic engineers who wanted to serve as role models for the Latino community.

Zhao Lu, director of the education, science, and culture department at the Ministry of Finance, told Xinhua that the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)-- China's equivalent to the U.S. National Science Foundation — could serve as a model for what may be a new agency for managing R&D spending.