Sentences with phrase «broader social understanding»

«When an event comes along that clicks in perfectly to this broader social understanding, then suddenly it's much more likely to make you see yourself as a group member.»

Along with this effort to provide a broader social understanding of religious institutions and a more sophisticated framework in which to explain the dynamics of religious life, practical theologians raise specific questions about education for contemporary religious leaders.

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What I mean is, we are the generation that have helped make massive strides in social rights, self - reflection, a broader understanding for people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and more.

The need for deeper advisor awareness and understanding of the broader role Social Security claiming strategies can play in creating a secure retirement was becoming abundantly clear and it was at that point I realized a firm dedicated solely to the education of financial professionals made sense.»

This broader understanding of what we seek to defend should make social conservatives both more and less political than we have tended to be: We should be more political in that we do more than occasionally resort to legal appeals to protect our own freedom of action.

Do you think reclaiming a broader, more political understanding of Catholic social teaching is part of the cure for this disease?

But when individual and national authority are understood — and relativized — in the context of social relations that affect all of humanity, then a broader, more encompassing, and even more transcendent sense of the sacred becomes necessary.

Some roles in the business world can be conducted better by those who understand themselves as professionals and accept a broad cultural and social responsibility for leadership along with that for the standards of their profession.

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?

The findings give hope to social scientists trying to understand broader phenomena, like how rumors about a candidate spread during a campaign or how information about street protests flows out of a country with state - controlled media.

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.»

We believe this approach will help us to better understand how social interactions can both modulate and regulate our emotions, which has implications for broader health outcomes such as treating depression and anxiety, and managing acute and chronic pain.

Humanities: Grounded in a broad educational and real - world experiences that include principles of social sciences and the arts; capacity for cultural understanding and awareness; ability to function in diverse settings, comprehend multiple perspectives, and question ideas and perspectives while remaining tolerant and open - minded.

In global development circles, it's long been understood that providing money to poor households when they do things like send children to school or get children vaccinated can fight poverty and meet broader social goals in the short term.

The action implications of these findings, as well as some of the dos noted earlier, are to promote a genuine and broad sense of inclusiveness by educating for true understanding of diversity, especially as manifest in one's own school, to ensure that school codes of conduct and core values are integrated into everyday routines, including opportunities for student reflection and feedback on student report cards (versus being relegated to statements in handbooks or on web sites), and to require that all students are given systematic training in social problem solving or related social - emotional skills and encouraged specifically to use those skills in finding alternatives to mistreating others, seeking help effectively, and upstanding in the presence of injustice and inequity.

Most importantly, it takes seriously what it means to understand the relationship between how we learn and how we act as individual and social agents; that is, it is concerned with teaching students how not only to think but to come to grips with a sense of individual and social responsibility, and what it means to be responsible for one's actions as part of a broader attempt to be an engaged citizen who can expand and deepen the possibilities of democratic public life.

The past two decades have brought clear progress and a stronger empirical understanding to the fields of school - based prevention and the broader field of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)(Greenberg et al., 2003).

It can also ensure pupils have a much broader experience base through which they can better understand people who come from a different social, cultural or religious background to their own.

They also gain an understanding of and are able to challenge what is valued in terms of health and physical activity within their families, social groups, institutions and society, and within other cultures in the broader community.

It focused not just on the academic goals of curriculum, but also on education's broader social dimensions, including the development of students» moral and creative capacities and an understanding of their diverse needs.

Bridges Academy is dedicated to understanding and educating gifted and highly gifted students with learning differences (twice - exceptional or 2e students) and fostering a successful academic and social experience for students and for the broader community through work of two divisions: Bridges Academy and The Center for Twice - Exceptional Research and Professional Development (The 2e Center).

Its goals are broad — to understand the history of human beings and the creation of our various social norms (as defined by race, nationality or ethnicity).

Librarians, bringing their broad expertise with children's literature, their understanding of children's reading preferences, and their knowledge of curriculum demands can partner with teachers to enrich and enliven study of history, science, social studies and more by integrating fiction into the center of learning, not keeping it on the sidelines The program will include a list of recommended novels that tie to curriculum.

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.

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.

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.

These artists» thoughts and perspectives on reality provide possible ways for viewers to understand, approach, and intervene in the broader social reality.

Making reference to domesticity, language and ideas of nationhood, both artists explore their cultural and social lineages in relation to broader understandings of political traumas including conflict, war and imperialism.

The 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.»

Painting at RISD prepares students to engage in an individual search for meaning and cultural representation through the development of strong visual skills, keen critical reasoning abilities and an understanding of broad historical and social contexts.

The absence of such contributes to many social ills, whether failing to understand how health risks should be borne by a broad support to help curtail individual risk, the purpose of insurance, performance of social systems, or how reducing individual costs by allowing coastal construction in flood zones is based upon a lottery mindset.

In a broad sense this arises both from the social uncertainty about whether and when mitigation efforts will be agreed and achieved, as well as from the scientific uncertainty about how the many feedbacks in the Earth system operate, arising from imperfect climate modelling, the role of tipping points [9] and other limits to our understanding of the system.

The co-requisite Reflections course enhances and supports students» understanding of community legal practice and allows them to situate their clinical work within a broader social justice context.

Education encompasses a broad variety of topics, including education on legal and jurisdictional issues, an understanding of the role of a judicial officer, ethical issues impacting on judicial conduct, the development of specific skills necessary to perform the functions of a justice of the peace, and the development of an awareness of social and cultural context in which social issues and challenges may arise and manifest themselves in judicial proceedings.

(The «understanding» category might be a trifle obscure, but I mean it to include material on the broader aspects, social, political, jurisprudential, professional, of dealing with legal information through IT.)

Not only is the study of theoretical perspectives — and the greater understanding such study brings — valuable for its own sake, but a strong theoretical grounding also enables lawyers to understand the broader social, economic, and intellectual patterns that shape doctrine and define its functions.

An analytically efficient and multi-disciplined Urban and Regional Planner, versed in offering a broad understanding of the scientific, social and valued dimensions of environmental issues; specific expertise in land use and environmental impact of development; familiarity with political and economic dimensions of environmental issues; knowledgeable in planning policies for future development; familiarity with GIS software; adapt in recommending zoning regulations with environmental health in mind; and consulting with public, private and non-profit agencies.

Gordon's vision for rural health includes: closing the life - expectancy gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; cooperative service delivery through multidisciplinary health teams; consumer empowerment for health through health promotion; health education for self - management and illness prevention; the role of the arts in establishing good health; and a broad understanding of the social determinants of health, including education, transport, fresh food, sustainable industries, viable communities etc..

Underlying this approach is an understanding of the opportunity that native title presents to governments guided by a broader policy direction towards the economic and social development of Indigenous people.

The past two decades have brought clear progress and a stronger empirical understanding to the fields of school - based prevention and the broader field of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)(Greenberg et al., 2003).

The overall goal is to understand couple and family functioning within their broader social contexts and throughout a multiplicity of forms.

Secondly, it is acknowledged that for understanding the determinants and development of behaviour and mental health information is needed at different levels, that is, social (e.g. socioeconomic background), psychological (e.g. temperament), and biological (HPA - function, DNA).18 Adherence to the second principle is demonstrated by the broad range of measures that has been included in the study (Table 2).

This parenting style offers kids a broad array of benefits like good social skills, more success in school and a good understanding of other individuals.

Yet, all of the authors recognize the need for research to become more multidisciplinary and to encompass the broader social ecology if it is to increase our understanding of the effects of child care on development.

However, as I stated earlier, I am not convinced that there is a full understanding of the importance of culture and its relevance to Indigenous peoples» relationship to country, or to the broader social and economic improvement in the lives of Indigenous people.

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.

The investment model of commitment processes is rooted in interdependence theory and emerged from the broader scientific zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s that sought to understand seemingly irrational persistence in social behavior.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner advocates for the recognition of the rights of Indigenous Australians and seeks to promote respect and understanding of these rights among the broader Australian community.