Sentences with phrase «best historical practices»

He explains that the pressure to develop curriculum addressing state standards and the requirement to use standardized tests that reflect rote learning resulted in limited use of digital primary sources and «best historical practices» (p. 323).

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So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

But this insistence on Kantian morality, to my mind, shows a thinness regarding the foundation of ethics not only when it moves to an abstraction beyond settled emotive, historical and cultural practices, whether they be for better or worse.

In addition, «the whole» for any society, carries with it the best historical estimate of that society's common good, for the common good is just that set of practices that contributes to the society's implementation of its best vision of the whole and, in effect, of its success.

Written by an international team of experts, the study provides an overview of emerging good practice in strategic flood management (SFM), as well as a historical overview of the events — like the Boxing Day tsunami — that have changed approaches to flood management forever.

Not only do I have my own personal experience and those of the women I work with in my practice, but there are historical accounts of menstrual synchrony as well.

This story outline could have produced yet another tired historical epic with yeomen dashing around on horses, quaffing ale and eating burnt sheep with both hands, while their betters practiced the minuet.

The free Web site, www.teachinghistory.org, includes links to journal articles, Web - based documents and other historical collections, and examples of best teaching practices.

The book includes the following papers: (1) «The Middle School: Mimicking the Success Routes of the Information Age» (Thomas O. Erb) which reviews the historical issues surrounding gifted education and middle - level education; (2) «Middle Schools and Their Impact on Talent Development» (Mary Ruth Coleman and James J. Gallagher) which describes two studies, one which compared attitudes of middle school and gifted educators and the other which looked at current best practices; (3) «Gifted Learners and the Middle School: Problem or Promise?»

Designed to facilitate more authentic and deeper learning, teachers will brainstorm ways to integrate the Essential Skills in Economics to also develop students» mastery of other K - 12 English / language arts and social studies skills such as analyzing and synthesizing primary and secondary sources; using evidence to draw conclusions and make generalizations; articulating and defending positions using content vocabulary; comparing and contrasting historical, cultural, and political perspectives; explaining cause - and - effect relationships; and practicing good citizenship skills while collaborating and compromising.

We designed the historical photographs» primers (Appendix C) and several hyperlinks to help teachers better understand the historical era and suggested wise - practice teaching strategies to help guide students to think more critically.

Today, changing conditions, a new culture of transparency and the need to share best practices and inspire others is breaking the historical silence among educators.

As Dr. Sonia Nieto suggests in the video «Affirming Diversity», well intended, but superficial efforts to combat the historical dominance of the majority culture, such as the effort to diversify staff by hiring practices are not sufficient to overcome long standing educational and societal inequities.

Hopper, a US based OTA uses Travelport historical flight data to predict when is the best time for a consumer to buy a flight to a particular destination These are great examples of machine learning in practice.

Here, curator James Meyer made an argument, not (just) for the art - historical relevance of Truitt's work — and not for a token local artist made good — but for the centrality of Truitt's singular practice to Washington, D.C., where she made so much of her work.

Richly illustrated with over 150 color plates, the catalogue features essays that touch on key aspects of her practice and historical reception, as well as an extensive annotated chronology that provides an in - depth exploration of the intersection of her life and art.

Situating itself within current art historical and political debates, the exhibition considers work by self - taught, spiritually inspired and incarcerated artists, alongside other projects based in performance, socially engaged practice and the archive, as well as painting, drawing, sculpture and assemblage, that make insistent reference to place.

This panel will reconsider the work of historical figures such as Berenice Abbott and Diane Arbus as well as the contemporary practice of artists such as Anne Collier and Zoe Leonard, probing the paradoxes of the term «woman photographer,» as well as the personal narratives that accompany and complicate the common trope of a woman with a camera.

We seek an artist with a broad knowledge of historical and contemporary art practices, as well as a thorough understanding of technical, critical, and theoretical issues of the media.

Displayed together they chart the evolution of his creative practice, as well as providing insight into the historical events that inspired his revolutionary new aesthetic.

LOCATION: New Cross, London SPECIALTIES: The school offers a tutorial system, allowing students to choose their focus, but its known for teaching conceptually weighted work TUITION: # 3,330 ($ 5,600) for Brits; # 8,650 ($ 14,500) for international students TIME TO DEGREE: 2 years NOTABLE FACULLTY: Suhail Malik, Mark Leckey, Lindsay Seers FAMOUS ALUMNI: Malcolm McLaren, Lucian Freud, Yinka Shonibare, Bridget Riley, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Liam Gillick BIGGEST SELLING POINT: Goldsmiths offers a unique blend of studio practice, theoretical, and art - historical training that has made it the U.K.'s most notable and best - known graduate program.

Spanning practice and theory, Hockney's investigation of artistic techniques has also developed through art - historical research, resulting in Secret Knowledge (2001), his publication on the optical devices used by the Old Masters, as well as A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen (2016), written in collaboration with art critic Martin Gayford and further exploring the many ways artists have pictured the world.

In concersation with internationally acclaimed Ghanaian born, British architect Sir David Adjaye OBE, Professor Paul Goodwin, curato, Director of the resarch centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation [TrAIN], and current chair of Contemporary Art and Urbanism at the University of the Arts London, and moderated by Rachel Barrett, writer, curator and lecturer at the Jamaica based Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts, Thomas will discuss his artistic practice and the series of works in The Beautiful Game as well as the broader concerns of historical perspective and postcolonial, transnational legacies.

His practice is devoted to creating documents that elucidate the hidden realities of contemporary Cambodian existence while creating a more comprehensive historical record for future generations of Cambodians as well as international audiences.

A brief discussion of historical events as well as background in Chinese philosophy, political systems and religious practices will be presented in order to allow students to recontextualize selected works within their originating culture.

After a nearly decade - long hiatus from the West Coast art scene, his paintings at this exhibition present a sort of general overview of a thrillingly differing painting practice and thus making an assertive case for the historical significance of Schnabel's opus as well as his increasing relevance to the new generations of artists and art aficionados.

Not only does the Gallery 2 program broaden the audience's basis of visual reference and education — as it is important to explore the relationship of contemporary practice and historical lineage — but it also affords the gallery the opportunity to work and build relationships with artists who are represented by other galleries, artists whose trajectories hold a different primary focus than the gallery, as well as young artists.

The Performance Program is part of MoMA's increased focus on the historical as well as the contemporary practice of performance - based art.

Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1 The Performance Program is part of MoMA's increased focus on the historical as well as the contemporary practice of performance - based art.

At CCS Bard she will continue this research further, intertwining the artist's garden in a layered field of research including contemporary notions of ecology, the anthropocene, botany, practices of community - and radical gardening, as well as the more cultural historical tradition.

ORGASMIC STREAMING — ORGANIC GARDENING — ELECTROCULTURE — «a group exhibition looking at practices that emerge between text and performance, the page and the body, combining a display and events program of historical and contemporary works — seeks an alternative framework to look at the influence of conceptual procedures as well as experimental writing within contemporary feminist performance practices across visual art, sound and text.»

ORGASMIC STREAMING — ORGANIC GARDENING — ELECTROCULTURE — «a group exhibition looking at practices that emerge between text and performance, the page and the body, combining a display and events program of historical and contemporary works — seeks an alternative framework to look at the influence of conceptual procedures as well as experimental writing within contemporary feminist performance practices across -LSB-...]

This minor includes courses designed to familiarize students with graphic design principles, skills, and professional practices, as well as an Art History course intended to provide a historical and theoretical understanding of the field.

Examining both Haring's street art and studio practice, as well as his distribution techniques, the show positions Haring on an art historical timeline that later includes Shepard Fairey, Rosson Crow, SWOON and others.

Golden Kingdoms features works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico and explores artistic practices as well as the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions.

The path forward in art - historical terms was split between those artistic movements more aligned with deeper investigations into the increasingly essential properties of a particular medium or reductive practices (e.g., Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Minimalism) and those movements that actively sought an expansion of the arts into a plurality of new forms, hybrid media, and interactive experience (e.g., expanded cinema, intermedia, installation art, performance).13 Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic art.

After a hiatus from the West Coast art scene for nearly a decade, this first exhibition at Blum & Poe takes the form of a concise overview of an exhilaratingly divergent painting practice — making a forceful case for the historical importance of Schnabel's oeuvre as well as his ever - growing relevance to a new generation of artists.

A historical account of how technology has introduced ideas of resonance, amplification, and noise into the practice of music, as well as how contemporary practices of experimentalism in Asia have allowed to break away from institutionalised Western notions of music, leading towards an inclusiveness of listening and community building.

Displayed together they chart the evolution of Malevich's creative practice, as well as providing insight into the historical events that inspired his revolutionary new ways of thinking.

Michael Ovitz Family Painting & Sculpture Gallery, Gallery 23, 4th Floor The Performance Program is part of MoMA's increased focus on the historical as well as the contemporary practice of performance - based art.

Noted for her ambitious interventions in public space, as well as her objects, films, photography, installations and ephemeral actions, Rajkowska's practice interrogates individual and collective bodies as politicised sites of historical, ideological and psychological conflict.

Darren Almond's diverse practice incorporates film, installation, sculpture, painting and photography, to produce evocative meditations on time and duration as well as the themes of personal and historical memory.

Join artist Darren Almond as he speaks to curator and writer William A. Ewing about his diverse practice which incorporates film, installation, sculpture, painting and photography, to produce evocative meditations on time and duration as well as the themes of personal and historical memory.

It deals with a generation that is facing falling expectations for individual and collective well - being, while at the same time being confronted in the professional sphere with a panorama in which academic, cultural and commercial interests overlap with each other, confusing the real value of artistic practice: namely, giving shape to visions that are capable of bestowing a different meaning on their historical circumstances.

Within this conceptual and historical framework, the concept of repair has guided Attia's artistic practice well over a decade.

Brandenburg's practice reflects her training in set design and the visual arts and is inspired by a wide range of historical elements, many reverting back to the late 19th - centruy, sourced from literature, the visual arts, expressionist theatre, Hollywood films, photography, chess and magic, as well as pre-Freudian psychoanalysis.

I couldn't help thinking that this historical strand of rather conservative representational work, which I was told still exists in Lithuania as well, could partly be chalked up to a not - so - distant time in which transgressive practices were repressed.

Both days will feature a seminar focused on the scrutiny of historical and recent examples of art criticism, as well as a writing exercise in which the fruit of those discussions can be put into practice in the context of the Royal Academy's summer exhibition programme.

Fernández's expansive practice, which encompasses sculpture and works on paper as well as site - specific installations, has long involved the study of natural phenomena and context — examining historical and cultural factors that shade our view of our surroundings.

The first Lunch Bytes discussion in Dublin invites artists and experts who have worked with, and written about, the medium of film / video to present and discuss their work in relation to traditional art historical disciplines and media, as well as the current digitisation of artistic practice.