Sentences with phrase «broader social issues»

Broader social issues including disadvantage, housing and wider cultural norms are also relevant.

The very fact that the comment was made and then seized on by the media continues to promote stereotypes of Aboriginal people, without considering the broader social issues at play.

The Court also connected the disproportionate nature of inmate incarceration as a sign of broader social issues,

Stevens and Ringgold chose their subjects for their impact on the arts as well as broader social issues.

The exhibition New Gravity / Interesting Thing includes video and performance works that address, in diverse ways, gender and sexuality as central elements of broader social issues.

His texts, in which he connects contemporary art, literature and music to broader social issues and cultural contexts, are published in various publications, including Art in America, Camera Austria, Afterimage and The Wire.

Her works over the past twenty years are as much about her personal journey as an artist as they are about a desire to articulate broader social issues.

For an environment to be inclusive, students also need spaces to openly and honestly vocalize their feelings and anxieties related to broader social issues.

«Science and the broader social issues aren't going to stop being relevant, so there will always be interesting angles in need of discussion.

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.

It often provided a liturgical focus for women's groups to raise broader social issues.

While family environment is a broader social issue, how it affects students needs to be considered when discussing reform.

The Foundation may support organizations engaged in public policy by either providing general operating support or by funding educational advocacy such as nonpartisan research, technical assistance, or examinations of broad social issues.

This is clearly more of a broader social issue of people not understanding how to deal with male victims for sexual assault as it's considered a newer issue in terms of actual public awareness.

Kim Abeles is an artist who crosses disciplines and media to explore and map the urban environment and chronicle broad social issues.

Kim Abeles is a Los Angeles artist who explores and maps her urban environment to chronicle broad social issues.

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Social responsibility is central to the operations of these companies — they know it's smart business to consider global issues and the broader community, whether it is through offering discounted loans for electric cars (Vancity) or helping to set up organic cotton seed banks in India (Zara).

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told CNBC last month at the United States Conference of Mayors that the broader Texas «red state» reputation is an issue, especially given the tech industry's focus on social tolerance, but he stressed that Dallas is «a blue city in a red state,» which has scored 100 on the LGBT Index for the past three years.

And while Rawlings acknowledged the broader Texas «red state» reputation is an issue, especially given the tech industry's focus on social tolerance, he stressed that Dallas is «a blue city in a red state,» which has scored 100 on the LGBT Index for the past three years.

Discovering Shale Gas: An Investor's Guide to Hydraulic Fracturing of Shale Plays explores in detail the environmental and social impacts of shale gas development in the United States, identifying key questions for investors and also broader issues about shale gas development's implications for extending the era of fossil fuel dominance.

Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group's John Beck discusses geopolitical tensions, the impact of social media and the broader macroeconomic issues impacting the global fixed income landscape.

«Current - affairs news» is a broad term in China and encompasses all news and commentary related to politics, economics, military, foreign affairs and social issues, according to the draft version of China's online information law.

Though the networks sought to make all religious programming emphasize broad religious truths rather than individual tenets of denominations and to avoid dealing with controversial economic and social issues which were of religious significance, many programs produced by the churches in relation with the networks were critical or prophetic in nature.

Social and political issues, however, allow much more room for creative maneuver, and there emerged a kind of broad Thomism suitable for these issues.

In the not too distant past, clergy were seen as pivotal spiritual and intellectual leaders, and theological schools were seen as providing vital leadership for congregational ministry and for grappling with broader intellectual and social issues.

Martha's case raises broader issues: the availability of assisted suicide to physically sound but depressed individuals; the «quick» solution of death for the elderly when they feel useless; thinking of death as a «right» rather than a fact; and too much social concern with the legal rather than the psychological condition of those contemplating suicide.

Within such a paradigm we would begin to analyse an issue such as media and violence in terms of its effects first on the broader symbolic environment that is needed for constructive social life, rather than just on isolated and selected individual actions.

Third, applying simple legislative solutions to complex social issues also seems attractive, but ignores other relevant factors such as the role of the family and parental supervision, the place of education, and broader social determinants such as employment and access to social and economic opportunity.

«Due to this being a global competition across five continents we've discovered an incredible collection of social entrepreneurs that are aiming to tackle a broad array of issues.

I understand well the limitations of the scientific method, and the need for broad, interdisciplinary perspectives for understanding complex social issues such as parenting, but I still don't understand where you came up with the notion that feeding babies formula contributes to SIDS?

We achieve our mission through the effective provision of social and mental health services that help strengthen families, addressing a broad range of issues that can negatively affect their lives.

The moral crusading that Wilson spoke of is still alive and well but is now far more likely to be found in single - issue campaigns than broad movements, something which social media makes far easier than ever before.

HSUS's issues are probably a natural for social networking sites, since they involve animal protection, something in which a broad swath of the sites» populations would be interested.

With the move, President Donald Trump — who indicated during his campaign that he might protect LGBT rights — has sided with social conservatives on a key issue at the center of a broader cultural battle between conservatives and liberals.

Many social critics, including Binyavanga Wainaina, Emma Dabiri, and Brian Bwesigye have taken issue with Selasi and the broader Afropolitan discourse — arguing that it reflects an elitist representation of African diasporas, which depoliticizes social relations and commodifies African cultures.

«The Democrats convinced us that Democrats have a broader tent when it comes to education, social programs, health - related issues,» said Kiryas Joel's village administrator, Gedalya Szegedin.

The new Liberal Party would «pursue a progressive agenda on social and economic issues that is far broader than the WFP's,» the source stated.

On a broader level, I believe government must be careful when tackling social issues, especially when using social science data.

To explore that issue, she is now looking beyond Kansas and across three continents, collecting data in Korea, Ghana and elsewhere in the U.S. Whereas more choice may lead to similar friends for U.S. college students, different social landscapes and broad cultural attitudes may introduce their own unique constraints on how people pick their friends.

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.»

The France - Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, founded in partnership with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aims to bridge the disciplines of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Engineering, Business and Law, addressing historical and contemporary issues of significance for France and the United States from a broad range of perspectives.

Additionally he reports on a broad range of important social, cultural, political, and business issues in the region.

Duck Town likewise fails in trying to take on the important social issue of suicide through broad comedy.

While the authors apply these concepts to the broader field of social and emotional learning, these same foci also apply as we address the issue of screen time with our students and children.

By failing to take the need for states to address this problem seriously, small - schools advocates seem to ignore the broader issues of social justice that they work so hard to address in their own schools.

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.

Calling their entrepreneurial venture the Happy Eating Place (HEP), the students originally set out just to prepare healthy snacks on campus and raise money for a yet - to - be determined nonprofit organization, but Malamud saw the opportunity for a service learning initiative with broader goals that would include social justice issues within our society.

Students develop a broad foundation in higher education administration, including insight into historical / contemporary perspectives, current issues, governance, legal issues, and social and personnel functions of higher education.

This is, of course, a problem of «theory and practice» in education at the broad social level which mirrors the issue of the relationship between educational research and practice at other points in this document.

The questions, although broad, do not necessarily address social justice issues like the social policies that influence graduation requirements, the aspirations of students with special needs, including those diagnosed with mental health and behaviour issues, the needs of ESL students arriving during their teenage years, etc..