Sentences with phrase «current academic thinking»

The books below lay out the history of graphic novels, their standing among the arts, and the most current academic thinking on their utility today, specifically at an educational mindset with an eye toward the concerns and thoughts of librarians.

The usefulness of a source that brings together current academic thinking on so important a topic is beyond question.

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Fortunately, there are a few Whiteheadian philosophers working in mainstream departments, and they do undertake to relate his thought to current developments in academic philosophy.

A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very» much to the heart of current scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).

Academic scientists should think realistically about how many intellectual offspring they ought to produce over a career and talk candidly with current students about the job market.

The main event is an annual meeting, bringing together companies and academics with an interest in skin research but the Skin Forum also makes sure that it keeps abreast of current thinking and that research is aimed at something applicable and useful: «We commissioned a survey that was sent out to both pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries to see what areas of skin research were thought to be most relevant and should be covered in grant applications,» says Professor Hadgraft.

Based on a sample of of approximately 14,000 current full time students, the 2017 Student Academic Experience Survey asks how hard students are working, how satisfied they are with their lives and what they think of recent government policies.

Over 100 pages with whole numbers and some great ideas from current teachers, teaching assistants, home school parents, private tutors, special needs tutors providing excellent examples for successfully using these resources in developing students» skills, confidence and academic buoyancy, aiding soft skills and other life skills, generating students» thinking, talking, listening, reflecting, writing and reasoning.

Academic learning that comes to mind includes more prosaic elements of law, such as contract vs criminal vs administrative law; the developmental history of their own city; recent (50 years) political history of their city; basics of land law; current vs past thinking in urban planning; specific budgetary investigations at both the state and local level; school funding law in their state; essentials of Leadership, EPA impacts on dismantling abandoned structures; economic price theory; or the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their own city or region.

The four authors are distinguished academics, and their careful analysis of the goals and values and, to a lesser extent, the current research in education policy, speaks to another era, one in which those trained in analytic thinking at premier universities found themselves entrusted with the opportunity and the time to draw upon that thinking while being somewhat protected from the slings and arrows of political fortune.

I would like to think that I am familiar with past and current instructional strategies, the variety of ways to meet student needs, different curriculum designs, and the like, all in the hope of making a difference in student learning and boosting academic achievement.

But the journey from academic research to everyday classroom practice is fraught with challenges: teachers don't have time to keep up with current trends and thought leaders, schools can't afford subscriptions to journals, and academic articles are often written in impenetrable language.

Prof. Kirst, Stanford policy academic and current California school board president, is a potent «influencer,» an insider despite his academic credentials, who thinks special education policy needs a remake.

But regardless of whether censorship or irrelevance is the real reason for cancellation, it should go without saying that education academics should have the freedom to share their current thinking.

In fact, if humanity takes no action and this century will bring a temperature rise of 2 ºC, 3 ºC or even more, the current discussions over whether the 14th Century was a few tenths of a degree warmer or the 17th a few tenths cooler than previously thought will look rather academic.

e. Confidence of the elected in the designers and their program, in the users and their data, in the experts and their judgement, and the data and the product and the academic environment and the current «political environment» within and without the «buro», and all the other «buros» and departments and advisory boards and committees, and what the press thinks, and what the bankers think, and what investors think, and the UN, and Soros, and the lobbyists, and — oh yea — the Voters back home.

First, the over-reliance on deference may be a product of a hangover effect from an earlier era of judicial intrusiveness, which has guided current thinking of the appropriate scope of judicial review on the part of legal academics and some members of the Supreme Court.