Sentences with phrase «educational activist who»

She wanted to do her grade two class presentation about the sixteen - year - old Pakistani educational activist who was...

She wanted to do her grade two class presentation about the sixteen - year - old Pakistani educational activist who was shot by the Taliban.

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It is accessible to individual labour activists who wish to deepen their understanding of the role of unions — both inside and outside the workplace — and should be widely adopted for use in post-secondary labour studies courses and union educational programs.

But it also served a dual political purpose: It jabbed at the tradition of mayoral control of New York City's schools, and it also allowed the governor to take an aggressive stand on the issue of educational equity — a marquee issue of Ms. Nixon, a longtime education activist who has placed the issue squarely at the heart of the early stages of her campaign.

For example, if I believe that human societies are inherently amoral, unjust, and governed by powerful elites who rig the economic, political, and educational game in their favor, then I might endorse the late Brazilian social activist Paulo Freire's «pedagogy of the oppressed,» wherein students are taught to view social relations in terms of power and domination.

«They're up against a huge onslaught right now,» said Ms. Dean, who sees a chance for them to build a more «activist, engaged» membership that can help drive the policy debate on educational matters instead of playing defense.

Volunteer activists in the test resistance movement who formed United Opt Out in 2011 have become so disruptive to the standardized testing establishment that their website was recently «hacked into and destroyed — along with a great deal of their web - based educational tools,» according to a report at Alternet, including «years of research, with an archive of guides and tutorials for opting out tailored specifically to almost every U.S. state.»

In addition, the Informal Education Homepage (www.infed.org /) is an excellent source for historic descriptions of core educational philosophers and activists who are associated with these alternatives, including Paulo Freire, Carl Rogers, Maria Montessori, John Dewey, and many others.

discussion of science education, and putting aside Edward Greisch's denigration of the humanities, and putting aside the fact that among the most ardent and activist proponents of action against AGW there are many musicians, writers, artists and filmmakers, and putting aside the fact that among the most obstinate and willfully ignorant denialists there are a considerable number of engineers and other technical types who have exactly the sort of educational background that he suggests as an antidote to denialism:

B. 05-20-1872, Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, U.S. social activist who began by organizing and taking part in grassroots movements in her native Kentucky battling for educational and health facilities.