Sentences with phrase «assumption about the role»

The public / private dichotomy refers to assumptions about the role of the Protestant church in American culture.

The programmatic structure in most congregations still reflects Victorian assumptions about the role of Christian parents in the faith formation of children.

Regarding «Junk DNA,» yes, previous assumptions about the role of non-coding DNA have been replaced with an appreciation for other roles in regulation of coding regions, but this simply doesn't support the notion that our genomes were intelligently designed.

They concluded «It is time to revise our calcium recommendations for young people and change our assumptions about the role of calcium, milk, and other dairy products in the bone health of children and adolescents.

This begins, she says, by examining your own values and beliefs, as well as your assumptions about the role of parents in their child's education.

The political argument for involving parents and other community members more substantially carries along with it an explicit challenge to the traditional, hierarchical leadership and power structures in schools.156 According to Leithwood and Prestine (2002), the policies and reforms that call for decentralized decision making rest on certain important assumptions about the role of the principal and other school leaders.

educators William Ayers, Crystal Laura, and Rick Ayers debunk persistent misconceptions about teachers, teachers» unions, school «choice,» standardized tests, and charter schools, while challenging readers to reevaluate their assumptions about the role of public education.

Katharina Grosse's epic psychylustro — a five - mile - long «painting» sprayed intermittently along a stretch of train tracks in northeast Philadelphia — challenges a number of assumptions about the role of both painting and public art.

As climatologist Tim Ball summarized «Beck's work completely undermined the IPCC claims and assumptions about the role of CO2 in man - made Global Warming, then Global Warming, then Climate Change, and now Global Climate Disruptions.»

Beck's work completely undermined their major claims and assumptions about the role of CO2 in Global Warming, then Climate Change, and now Climate Disruptions.

People seeking help from a therapist or counselor in order to improve their relationships, especially when a relationship has been affected by societal assumptions about the roles of intimate partners, may find relational life therapy a helpful approach.

This can be broken down to two important principles: first, focus on highly successful people without making assumptions about their role, and second, pay attention to what they actually do.

Not exact matches

All too often people in management roles take things personally and make assumptions about the intentions of the people they are responsible for managing or servicing.

The best segmentation tactics are based on true data about your audience rather than assumptions based on their role or geography.

Keynes's argument as to why these two assumptions are required for «valid inductive inference» is crucial for resolving the conflict about the role of the doctrine of internal relations.

These norms include implicit assumptions about whether one can be instructed directly by God, whether it is important to read the Bible to receive wisdom, what the role of intuition is, and how prayer should be understood.

Valuations are generally based on an idea of expected future income, so, having our fair share of aeronautical engineers, as well as a good American representation in the group, we have a great discussion about the assumptions underlying the valuation, the future of the air travel market, and the role of governments and other stakeholders in funding such large projects.

In a class on a recent Saturday, program participants discussed the incident of the boy and the Air Jordan and wondered if assumptions about race and class had played a role: «The teacher is taking an authoritarian stance,» one commented.

What a school actually does — and how it performs its role to help children learn — rather than broad assumptions about the correct size, instructional program or governance model, should drive our efforts to ensure that these public schools are helping children succeed.

In doing so, our key assumption is that these factors do play a role in shaping teachers» expectations about their students but don't otherwise affect the student's likelihood of completing college.

Each of these issues reflects assumptions about the «appropriate» roles of men and women.

Houman Harouni offered the most challenging and detailed feedback on my work and pushed me to question my basic assumptions about education and the roles I play in it.

In reading books on the principalship, perusing job descriptions, or listening to superintendents talk about the role building leaders should play, I find a pervasive assumption that a principal must be the instructional leader of the school.

What is clear, however, is that social stereotypes can play a crucial role as teachers build assumptions about their students and their future performance.

AF asked the firm to reconsider every basic assumption about the way kids learn, how their day is structured, and the role of the adults in the building.

BBY: We want to continue to play a strong role in challenging expectations and assumptions about African writing and to put the continent on the global map by publishing some of its extraordinary stories.

avafoperates with a hedonistic spirit, and engages in frequent collaborations with musicians, designers, dancers and other artists, challenging conventional assumptions about authorship and the role of the artist's persona in society and the contemporary art world with their core beliefs as foundation: «share, generosity, contaminate, be contaminated, devour, be devoured, travel, and spread».

Historicizing the shifting identity and role of this distinctly American version of modernism's «other,» the exhibition probes assumptions about creativity, artistic practice, and the role of the artist in contemporary culture.

The Malaysian - born, London - based artist uses the overly precious setting of the gallery space to pull objects — cooking utensils, kitchen fittings, plastic tubs, sheets of jute, etc — out of their utilitarian context in such a way as to force viewers to think about them as discrete objects, or things in and of themselves, while in the process challenging the assumptions we make about their functionality and attendant concerns such as, for example, the social status of the person who might own such an object, its role in their lives and that relation in respect to one's own style of living.

As Cuba was, at the time, largely off - limits to U.S. citizens, these images also exist in a hazy area of widely divergent assumptions about Cuban culture and the role of Cuban Communism.

According to Vicente Todolí, director of Tate Modern, the exhibition will «challenge assumptions about his practice and reveal his complexity and richness», looking at Gauguin's role as a narrative painter and a «maker of fables».

It is the first to explore how those key moments — coinciding with times of American social, political, and cultural upheaval — challenged traditional hierarchies and assumptions about creativity, artistic practice, and the role of the artist.

My optimism about the role that migration can play in protecting the populace hinges on the assumption that climate change will be gradual.

Some of the difference between the oil company scenarios and those from green NGO's and academics is due to fossil fuel lobby assumptions about demand and the role of gas (including shale gas), with CCS also seen as coming on line in a big way.

A review of the issues reveals, however, that these assumptions about the availability of land, the role of biofuels in causing deforestation, and the ability to relate crop prices to areas of land clearance are unsound.

As noted previously, assumptions about non-CO2 emissions are extremely important, and yet the role and dynamics of non-CO2 gases and other forcings (e.g., black carbon and sulfate aerosols) are complex and often confusing.

Trenberth also focused on climate attribution studies which claim the lack of a human component, and suggested that the assumptions distort results in the direction of finding no human influence, resulting in misleading statements about the causes of climate change that can serve to grossly underestimate the role of humans in climate events.

What is notable in the case of Target is the assumption made in ISS» recommendation about the role and responsibilities of the board.

These authors also discuss how these expectations come into conflict, as assumptions about gender roles, professional status, and «culturally expected» behavior change as family members adapt to US culture.

It entails several role plays and exercises, often illuminating and challenging assumptions about conflict.

This is not a «positive effect of fatherhood,» and is meaningless in that regard without adding first the unwarranted assumption that there is something important about the father being the child's role model, rather than his mother, a beloved uncle, or someone else.

In the first episode, I spoke with Dr. Winter about the history of clinical hypnosis, key assumptions, goals, the client's role and types of problems that might be addressed with clinical hypnosis.

You will learn about the role your beliefs, assumptions, and expectations play in influencing your feelings and behaviors.»

Today I speak with Dr. Elizabeth Winter about the history of clinical hypnosis, key assumptions, goals, the client's role and types of problems that might be addressed with clinical hypnosis.

«A book that will challenge assumptions about children's behavior and emotional development, while also challenging assumptions of the role of emotional learning in today's early childhood classrooms, an aspect that is far too often cast aside in favor of more academic pursuits.»

I thought feminism was, partially, about breaking assumptions about women's roles.

A lack of discussion about sexual needs due (in part) to assumptions about the sexual roles of women and men.

[FN17] This approach is more consistent with the «best interest» paradigm since it is tied directly to parental involvement with the child, as opposed to generic assumptions about gender roles.