Sentences with phrase «civic awareness»

A local business organization is also using it to promote civic awareness.

Recent developments in political targeting have increased civic awareness and participation.

Too many of us have bought into the notion that teenagers are passive, addicted to their phones and lacking civic awareness.

Free Trade promised cheap food for the people, but it was also championed for instilling civic awareness and an ethical sensibility for producers and their working conditions.

Pollution, recycling, climate change, health, technology, and energy are just a few examples of scientific topics that can promote civic awareness while fostering a deeper understanding of science and its applications.

Even if recent events like the earthquake in Sichuan and the Beijing Olympic Games raised a sense of civic awareness and public participation among China's youth, NGOs do not hold nearly the same appeal to many of China's brightest that they do in the West.

In the process, they hone students» skills in problem solving, collaboration, civic awareness, ethics, leadership, and information and media literacy.

Comments: Dwight offers an unusual amalgam of internationalism and civic awareness.

Two other authors — Web Hutchins (p. 70) and Rick Wormeli (p. 50)-- echo this call and describe innovative programs that promote students» civic awareness.

Patterson's work thus elicits a civic awareness that raises the stakes for popular culture as a whole.