Sentences with phrase «civic purpose»

Questions are also raised concerning whether social studies educators have missed opportunities to use social media to connect across racial and cultural boundaries and for civic purposes.

Traditional public monuments and statues had a clear civic purpose, many having been commissioned to commemorate an important event, notable individual, or significant group.

I echo political theorist Stephen Macedo's lament: «Given the centrality of civic purposes to public schools it is ironic that studies of - effective schools» pay so little attention to civic ends.»

Project - based learning (PBL) has the potential to ignite students» passion in civic purpose and social responsibility, but how do we ensure that projects also demonstrate rigorous learning?

He also wants it to develop a sense of civic purpose and «camaraderie» in the drive to raise standards.

But the Giants think they serve a civic purpose because they really do stand for tolerance and unity — albeit not for the national anthem.

«Their civic purpose is focused on improving safety and well - being within communities and promoting measures to prevent crime, harm and disorder.

The John Dewey Award echoes the teachings of its namesake reflecting a civic purpose that aims to reform the education landscape,» said Councilmember Jackson.

Indeed, given the heterogeneity of American higher education, its civic purposes must be understood as requiring different responses from differently situated institutions.

Our civic purpose drives our daily work and desire to improve how we teach.

As educators interested in schooling's civic purposes, we maintain that it is not enough to argue that democratic values are as important as traditional academic priorities.

In doing so, he lays the groundwork for a movement to reclaim the civic purposes that once undergirded American education.

The economic aims of education should not obscure the personal and civic purposes of schooling.

Damon cites the teaching of the civil rights movement as an opportunity to teach students to be citizens who think critically about their nation but who also have a civic purpose.