Sentences with phrase «dehumanizing experience»

Divorce can be a dehumanizing experience, especially for children.

Lucius Coulouten of the Prison Policy Initiative says video visitation is «a dehumanizing experience» run by «an exploitative industry that hurts incarcerated people more than it helps them.»

They say it takes them years to heal the dehumanizing experience of prison, where every day is a test of stamina, an exercise in humiliation, where people learn to sign a Department of Corrections ID number instead of their given names because they are the property of the government.

To have someone clearly see me and ignore my «hello» and walk on by is the most dehumanizing experience.

Johnson is proposing a unique approach to combat the depressingly repetitive, dehumanizing experiences that black people and other people of color too frequently experience in retail spaces.

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The last time I witnessed and experienced severe abuse at the hands of the Christian religion and its ministers in 2002, I vowed that if ever I would go back into ministry again, I would work to resist this power, teach others to do the same, and work to free people from the dehumanizing oppression of religion and the Church.

Nothing about that experience was anything but brutal, life denying, vengeful, and dehumanizing.

Instead of teaching their own positive convictions, which can help overcome a dehumanizing orthodoxy and so transform the life of the church, these schools seem to think that they will transform society and church by offering this or that course in urban studies, by relocating the setting of education to the places «where people live,» and by increased field experiences.

This paradox — we confine the guilty in dehumanizing spaces, but then devote resources to softening the experience — reflects a deep cultural ambivalence about punishment.

It is especially compelling to those of us who have lived through scientific training and experienced its dehumanizing effects.

And for the students who identify with targeted groups, it can be «dehumanizing not to have their experiences addressed in schools and by their teachers who they spend so much time with,» says former teacher and school administrator Aaliyah El - Amin, now a lecturer and researcher on educational justice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Hyper - individualization does precisely what the emerging body of research says it does and more: it isolates children, it breeds competition, it assumes that children can learn entirely on their own, and it dehumanizes the learning environment, reducing the human experience of learning down to a mechanistic process, one where children become the objects of learning as opposed to the subjects of their own educational narrative.»

Today's approach to teaching and learning is far more dehumanizing than even the approaches I experienced in business.

Doing so underestimates the value of the roles people play in the spreading of ideas and practically dehumanizes overall experiences.

Having looked for information and felt patronized, dehumanized, and pathologized, I've made sure this book offers you a different experience.

«You'll see this everywhere in popular culture, that there's an attempt to dehumanize people experiencing homelessness.