Sentences with phrase «complex social world»

In so doing, he reveals the complex social world of the simple and everyday.

As we mother our babies during the intimate times of breastfeeding, we introduce them to our complex social world.

First, as we navigate our complex social worlds, we fill - in lots of blanks to make sense of incomplete information.

Teacher education faculty, (many of whom taught long before the digital revolution), as well as TCs, must be equipped to draw upon a variety of literacies in order to tap into the complex social worlds of their future pupils.

She is known for her densely layered and mesmerizing abstract paintings, which often gesture to the language of architecture and geography as inspiration for abstract compositions, as well as commentary on the complex social worlds we inhabit.

Not exact matches

The agency, created in 1946 to build houses for veterans of the Second World War, liked to describe itself as the «heart of housing» — an enormous Crown corporation that dominated the mortgage insurance market, guaranteed complex, bond - like assets called mortgage - backed securities, and subsidized the building and upkeep of First Nations and social housing.

Complex and interconnected crises in the political, environmental, and social spheres are taking hold of our world — and it is time change - makers with a shared vision for a sustainable future seize the moment.

Ultimate Guide to Pinterest for Business is more than just a book on using Pinterest for marketing, it's a handbook for anyone who wants to understand how to approach branding and social media in today's complex online world.

It is our hope that we will be able to help organizations make informed decisions about the increasingly complex world of digital marketing and social business.

The world of social media is, as he put it, «a complex of private companies, with immense power right now.

This makes theological schools, for all their relatively small size, very complex microcosms of their larger siblings in academe and, indeed, of their larger social and cultural worlds.

It is the obligation of churches to bring this biblical vision to bear on our complex economic and social world.

The churches have failed to see that the challenge of world hunger (and the whole complex of related peace, liberation and development issues) constitutes a theological crisis for the church as well as a political, social and economic crisis for the world.

Yet it depended on selective attention to the social ills in the United States and ignorance of the complex relations between religion and culture in other parts of the world.

Theissen's work illumines the complex world inhabited and confronted by the early church, and can stimulate important insights on our modem social dilemmas and inform appropriate Christian responses.

Within this social organism there would arise «a spiritual center, a supreme pole of consciousness, upon which all the separate consciousnesses of the world may converge and within which they may love one another».5 This super-consciousness would evolve in the same way that personal consciousness does within the complex physiology of the human organism.

Two of them pointed to the social dimension of the sickness when they wrote: «The Church's job, I think, is to shed the searchlight of the Gospel on the causes of human misery of which alcoholism is a symptom»; and «We can prevent it by helping people learn how to live in a complex world.»

When your preschooler joins the other kids in the sandbox to create a castle out of sand, sticks, and leaves, he's not only exploring a fantasy world, he's learning complex, real - world rules about sharing, social interaction, and resolving conflicts.

And in the real world it moves beyond mathematical models to a complex web of personal, national and social factors.

Old World monkeys and apes that are more social have more complex facial patterns.

With these Old World monkeys and apes, the species that are more social have more complex facial patterns, the biologists found.

Our capacity to think is fueled by our storehouses of memory and knowledge acquired by living in complex physical and social worlds.

The complex event and its aftermath can also be further illuminated via discussions of larger themes in social and political history, such as balancing national safety and civil rights — comparing reactions to 9/11 with those following the attack on Pearl Harbor, for example — or the grounds for overseas military interventions — such as the recent U.S. engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan as compared with the U.S.'s position on the League of Nations after World War I. «These themes put a light on it,» Brodsky Schur says, giving teachers and even parents a way to integrate such a seemingly unteachable event.

Policy makers, scientists, and private citizens around the world who are interested in genomic research are discussing complex issues regarding ethics, social identity, and personal health.

Simplifying the jargon in a complex world of spam, computer viruses, trojans, spyware, corporate espionage, hacks, cyber war, cyber protests, social networking privacy and complicated security technologies for all.

This film plays as a pale imitation of that one, with less characters the love geometry is less complicated, and the film lacks all the social commentary of the other, with it's intersecting relationships between the various French classes on the eve of World War II and it's complex nostalgia for a more civilized time.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

On the other hand, complexity makes the difference or the complex plurality, which does not have an horizontal order, the social - corporative theories tend to fall to the deception of having «organization levels», and unavoidably make the mistake of seeing the world as a plural closed over it - self; typical of the dogmatic ideologies that in the end just look for a zero confusion level.

Some reflections that demand to contextualize the globalization tackling global dynamics (economical, political, cultural, social, educational, religious, etc.) with a complex thinking process and a holistic, poly - logic, multireferential, planetary and cosmic vision that proposes pragmatic alternatives for a changing, multidimensional and interdependent world.

In the fast changing world of technology we rarely acknowledge that eLearning is also present in the natural process of mastering new ways of communication via complex social platforms.

They may have a strong commitment to social justice, a deep desire to address complex societal ills, and a hope to make their community and their world a better place.

A multiracial fightback against the testing industrial complex — one that is explicitly ant - racist and takes up issues of class inequality — has the potential to change the terms of the education reform debate and envision a world where authentic assessments are used to support students as they engage in classroom inquiry about how to achieve social justice.

In today's complex (and potentially exhausting) world of social networking, the tools, guidance, and assistance available (much of free) is itself inexhaustible.

«Reading fiction increases empathy, improves social behavior and interactions, increases awareness of how others think and see the world, improves overall mental ability, and enhances the ability to handle complex situations,» Jennifer Sackett, vice president of NCPLDA, said in a news release.

«Reading fiction increases empathy, improves social behavior and interactions, increases awareness of how others think and see the world, improves overall mental ability, and enhances the ability to handle complex situations,» said Jennifer Sackett, vice president of NCPLDA and Library Director of Lincoln County Library, in an interview with the Carolina Coast Online.

The authors of these provocative, ripe - for - discussion novels use incisive humor as a mode for addressing complex questions about the enormous impact social media and other online phenomena have on every aspect of our lives, offering unprecedented access to and connection with the world while also blurring the distinction between facts and lies, eroding privacy, undermining trust, and impacting livelihoods.

Simplifying the jargon in a complex world of spam, computer viruses, trojans, spyware, corporate espionage, hacks, cyber war, cyber protests, social networking privacy and complicated security technologies for all.

Jones's deeply complex analysis cites numerous lushly illustrated works; her material, social, and political examination discusses the myriad ways African American artists, often segregated from the art world, articulated racial portraits of blackness as a means of accessing political authority.

Organized in seven sections, Chaos and Awe begins with «No Place,» a meditation on complex technological systems that have enhanced the connectedness of people and cultures around the world, but also led to a heightened vulnerability in our social, political, and technical infrastructures.

The program prepares students for leadership and entrepreneurial roles in a world that faces complex political, social and environmental challenges.

Both personal and broader social implications appear in Johnson's work; here she examines the impact of our world leaders» decisions and how one navigates this ambiguous and complex terrain.

In its more recent history, after having faced extreme destruction in World War II, it was entirely redeveloped and transformed into a pedestrian zone with a large social housing complex situated in the middle.

Over a thirty year career, Kudo, who worked in France and Japan, developed an extremely complex body of sculpture, installation, and performance - based work in reaction both to World War II and Japan's subsequent transformation into an industrial society and to European Humanism which, he believed, abetted environmental degradation and social malaise.

To this end, Picture Industry includes images and objects from a number of historical moments and social arenas arranged into a cohesive but varied array of historical positions, which prefigure our complex contemporary image world.

The exhibition features works by artists responding to social, historical and geopolitical concerns of living in an interconnected world, where notions of boundary, difference and «otherness» have become more complex.

Hargrave's new group expressed a complex social, economic and spiritual philosophy based on naturalist principles and committed themselves to the creation of a new world.

Standing at the forefront of investigation and reflection into the complex social and cultural issues underlying a changing world, the List Visual Arts Center at MIT provides a perfect context for the Prague - based artist Eva Koťátková's first solo museum exhibition in the United States.

His work critically engages trends in computing, manufacturing, and urban design, investigating contemporary tensions between waged and leisure time; the self and the social media public; and the virtual world and its complex material infrastructures.

«I look forward to helping students develop a more complex set of social and knowledge skills so that they can better direct themselves towards a more open, cooperative and tolerant world.

One of the starting points of her research is the study of «Support Structures»: through her practice, writings and theoretical reflections, Céline Condorelli investigates the complex apparatus made of objects, cultural and economic elements, social and professional relationships that constitute the net of relations we use to engage with the world.