Sentences with phrase «broader social change»

Because pediatricians have nearly universal, relatively frequent and recurring contact with young children and their families, they are uniquely well positioned to have an impact on developmental outcomes through anticipatory guidance at well - child visits, early developmental screening, practice - based developmental interventions, community linkage and referral programs, and advocacy for broader social change to support child development.40 — 44 This study reinforces the potential benefits of practice - based programs that support parenting and the home learning environment, such as «Reach Out and Read» and «Healthy Steps for Young Children,» 16,45,46 as well as community - based programs that help guide families through systems of care for developmental support, like Help Me Grow.47 Efforts to connect pediatric practices with home visitor and early care and education providers may provide referral opportunities for promoting early brain development.48 — 52

As I've noted before, stamping out these problems in society is not best effected through the courts, but through broader social change.

To educate, inspire and prepare veterinarians to better understand the unique needs of vulnerable animals and the people who care for them while working towards broader social change.

The shift in how administrators make decisions mirrors a broader social change also apparent in media and politics, where technology has toppled top - down structures in favor of informal networks of experts and practitioners.

A society where pumping is the norm has serious problems, and breastfeeding advocates should seek allies in making broader social change.

A country where women are so put down that pumping is the norm has serious problems, and breastfeeding advocates should seek allies in making broader social change.

Several decisions and actions that were themselves spurred by broad social changes taking place at the time led to this deep polarization and partisan entrenchment.

Not exact matches

While «San Junipero» doesn't reveal much about the broader world, there's not much evidence of radical social change.

Sevigny said as social media continues to increase its presence with public commentary on matters such as Question Period — which doesn't just rely on mainstream media for coverage anymore in a sea of tweets — it may lead to a change in behaviour of MPs as they attempt to come across in a warmer light to a broader reporting audience.

The scandal has led to broader questions about how Facebook and other social media networks manage data, and Facebook has been changing its privacy policies and tools in response.

Facebook is implementing these changes as part of a much broader plan to restrict data access on the social network.

As the world changes and the social impact ecosystem matures, we can better serve our communities and the broader field by joining forces.

The 1960s ushered in many changes, one of which was the end of the broad social consensus, call it bourgeois morality, that held sway among white Americans of all classes, upper, lower, and middle.

But the protests, which have been largely led by university students, had expanded beyond the original opposition to the social security changes to include broader anti-government grievances.

In tracing broad processes of social and cultural change, these theories also offer some guidance in thinking about the possible direction of changes in the future.

Because of the complex interaction of religious broadcasting with other social characteristics such as broader religious and cultural movements, changing social uses of mass media, and changing historical circumstances, it is unlikely that a simple cause - effect relationship between the viewing of religious programs on television and individual faith and church interaction could ever be isolated.

«There is a threat that Brexit could drain the oxygen out of endeavors to actualize a broad program of social and monetary change that is severely required at home,» Robb said.

Daniel Bittleston, Board Advisor, takes a broad view of Principle Three, the high ideal of social change through education.

The shorts (ranging from 3 minutes to 13 minutes) zoom in on intimate and revealing stories surrounding school lunch transformation and cooking - gardening education, and zoom out to the broader social issues and consequences around these changes.

She uses empirical research conducted in Bolivia, Sweden, the US, India, and Canada to explore and theorize shifting conditions and strategies of social change, including the criminalization of dissent, new approaches to law by social movements, and broader theoretical questions about the transformative potential of law.

Working on different norms about male and female language will not increase women's ability to impact on social reality if this change is not related to broader forms of mobilisation.

The introduction of civil partnerships has been one of the great achievements of this Labour government, bringing enormous personal happiness to many people and a broader pride for many across our country at the successful civilizing advance which this popular social change represents.

The ESRC Centre for Research on Socio - Cultural Change (CRESC) is the first major Research Centre in Britain to develop a broad, empirically focused account of cultural change and its economic, social and political implicaChange (CRESC) is the first major Research Centre in Britain to develop a broad, empirically focused account of cultural change and its economic, social and political implicachange and its economic, social and political implications.

Speaking as the epigenetic symposium commenced Professor John Hobcraft of the University of York, the lead scientific organiser of the Symposium, said: «Research is beginning to indicate how environmental and social factors are linked to a series of epigenetic changes, sometimes across quite broad areas of the genome.

Montillo uses the classic novel Frankenstein as her starting point to explore the shady science and changing social mores that inspired Mary Shelley's 1818 tale, and folds details of Shelley's personal life into a broader history of early anatomists and alchemists.

David Wessel, director of Brookings» Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, said the linking of monetary policy with broader social and economic concerns, such as climate change, is an emerging and critically important task for governments to take on.

We hope that our work will help scholars and policymakers understand these past trends and their effects on a broad range of social issues, as well as inform future efforts to change policy.»

PNNL scientists also have contributed intellectual frameworks that influenced IPCC assessments and the broader climate change community in areas as diverse as integrated assessment, technology's role in mitigation, carbon dioxide capture and storage, and social science contributions in addressing climate change challenges.

Both are addressed by recent developments that include: 1) a novel hyperscanning technology (functional near - infrared spectroscopy, fNIRS) that acquires hemodynamic signals simultaneously between two naturally interacting partners using a spectral absorbance technique that detects changes in hemodynamic signals acquired by surface - mounted optodes, and 2) a recently proposed Interactive Brain Hypothesis that establishes a broad theoretical framework for two - person social neuroscience.

«Duma» addresses broad themes — parent - child relationships, the inevitability of change, finding one's true nature — but also glances at the social realities of a troubled nation.

Nasen particularly welcomes the changes to the broad areas of SEN, with the removal of behaviour, social and emotional category and replacing it with social, mental and emotional health.

With these changes in selectivity, opportunity, and pay, our nation could go from giving no one what's needed to giving everyone what they want: for teachers, sustainable, well - paid career advancement, rigorous development on the job, and whole careers» worth of engaging work; for students, excellent teaching for all, consistently, increasing their lifelong prospects; and for the broader community, an improved economy, national security, and social stability.

Taking into consideration broad, economic, technological, and demographic changes, the contributors — all leading social scientists in their fields — suggest that these global transformations will require youth to develop new skills, sensibilities, and habits of mind that are far ahead of what most educational systems can now deliver.

Some conservatives believe they are being forced to support a broader set of social issues and embrace strategies or tactics they do not agree with as a litmus test to determine whether they are true change agents in education.

This view holds that true school reform must be part of a broader social justice campaign led by people of color, which calls for progressive changes to health care, housing, immigration, and economic policies, as well as education.

The need for broader social and economic changes in our country does not provide an excuse for maintaining the status quo in schools.

Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social change.

Collective impact, as defined by Kania and Kramer in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, is the concept that large - scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination of nonprofits, governments, businesses, and the public around a common agenda to create a collective iSocial Innovation Review, is the concept that large - scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination of nonprofits, governments, businesses, and the public around a common agenda to create a collective isocial change requires broad cross-sector coordination of nonprofits, governments, businesses, and the public around a common agenda to create a collective impact.

This piece, originally featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review Winter 2011, discusses how large - scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizaSocial Innovation Review Winter 2011, discusses how large - scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizasocial change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizasocial sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

Joan Almon is the Chair of the U.S. Alliance for Childhood (www.allianceforchildhood.org), a broad - based group advocating social change for children to improve their overall health and well - being.

But as I see it, the «change agent» ideas have been around for a long time and come straigbt from the Left and their «social justice» philosphy — which are backed by the unions, who were the first ones to start changing our schools, back in the 1970's; it wasn't the Broad Foundation.

Encompassing some 100 works in painting, sculpture, video, and installation, «The Everywhere Studio» presents over 50 artists from the past five decades to reveal the artist's studio as a charged site that has both predicted and responded to broader social and economic changes of our time.

The broad term modernism refers to artistic production beginning in the late nineteenth century that broke with the past and reflected the industrialization, urbanization, and social change of the future.

These minimal compositions may look familiar today, but it helps to recall that the dawn of the 20th century was still the time when Monet obsessively rendered his water lilies and Seurat fastidiously labored over the Grand Jatte one paint dot at a time... This was a time of the industrial revolution, broad social and political changes that found their reflections in the changing pictorial and musical themes of the first decades of the 20th century.

Questions like this are at the heart of Aesthetica's Future Now Symposium, which will take a broad view of the state of today's arts ecosystem and the social and economic challenges it faces, bringing together the organisations and practitioners at the forefront of shaping art's response to a fast - changing world.

Focused primarily on abstract art, this exhibition celebrates the achievement of individual artists, the collective history told by their art, and the social changes that have changed the way we understand art history in the broadest sense.

Molly Soda's practice responds to the broad preoccupation with the changing of global social dynamics, and for her second solo exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery, she proposes a new selection of projects by opening the door of her MacBook memory.

Yet, since her first works in the 1990s, which indirectly resonated Malaysia's social change at that time, her expressions are richly multifaceted and manifest deeper and broader landscapes of history, culture and human experiences and imagination.

Encompassing some 100 works in painting, sculpture, video, and installation, The Everywhere Studio brings together over 50 artists from the past five decades to reveal the artist's studio as a charged site that has both predicted and responded to broader social and economic changes of our time.

connects contemporary art devoted to social change with historic moments in creative activism, highlighting activities that seek to motivate broad and diverse publics.