It believed in a strong and
concentrated role of the state in social affairs.
Not exact matches
The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are
concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment
of the necessary
role of the
state to correct the distortions
of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the
role the initiatives
of «an active
state has played in the economic development
of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type
of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.
Perhaps both philosophers and theologians, in
concentrating on verbally -
stated propositions, have tended to neglect the
role of images in human thought.12
Whereas the
role of the individual qua world citizen has hitherto been a weak and intermittent strand in Western cosmopolitan political thought, recent
concentrated interest in both the theory
of democracy and citizenship in the context
of the
state is starting to spill over to the global plane.
It is for this reason that the NUT is taking action against the Secretary
of State and the Wales Minister for Education, telling members to
concentrate on the core
role of teaching.
In the book's 2004 sequel, Democracy Matters, West
concentrates on the
role of democracy in American society and the factors that impede the progress
of democracy in the United
States.
For our analysis
of the relationship between district improvement efforts and
state influences (see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 %
of school districts in the United
States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district
role in educational reform is
concentrated on the experiences
of large, urban districts.