Sentences with phrase «elaborate strategy for changing»

«We went ahead, implementing this incredibly expensive and elaborate strategy for changing the education system without creating enough ways to test whether what we are doing is useful or not,» said Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University and member of the committee that produced the report.

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In addition, I believe there is a need for specialized institutions that will bring together a group of theologians and a variety of secular futurists trained in the various sciences and the humanities to anticipate future developments, to elaborate visions of ideal futures, and to devise strategies for effecting social changes leading toward their attainment.

To this end we set up a ten - member «Commission of Strategy,» which did a notable piece of work in elaborating a complete plan for revising the church's structure and forms of expression in the light of the changes in society.

To elaborate, the efficacy of the AIM intervention was predicted based on the assumption that it was necessary to change the capacity of parents to provide their children with support, improve positive racial socialisation, give children strategies for dealing with racism, make accessible occupational and educational mentoring, enhance autonomy and open opportunities for responsible decision making.