Sentences with phrase «engage with social justice»

The use of the Arts to engage with social justice issues allows for students to participate in and contribute to, an authentic transformative curriculum.

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Millennials, while also tagged «selfie - obsessed», «entitled» and «self - indulgent», are significantly more engaged with sustainability and social justice than previous generations.

Since then, she has worked with national speaker and consultant Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, earned a Masters in Social Justice, and directed a short - term missions site on the west - side of Chicago, where she created interactive opportunities for young people to engage issues of poverty, injustice and race.

«Instead of engaging in a technological rat race with extremists, we should consider incorporating critical literacies — including digital media, anti-racism and social justice — into school curricula as an alternative strategy.»

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.

It is our hope that we can continue to grow the curriculum through twelfth grade, meaning a student who is experiences the LVI Kindness Curriculum from Kindergarten through 12th grade will engage in close to 80 lessons designed with a focus on kindness, equity and social justice.

She also uses Theatre of the Oppressed as a way to engage students and teachers with social justice in and outside of the classroom.

Sadiq — who last week launched London's first social integration strategy - will do this by working with organisations such as Comic Relief and London Sport to promote respect and justice, and engage people at risk of loneliness or marginalisation.

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the...

While engaging my students from all over Europe on issues of social justice and civic engagement, an idea occurred to me: What if students from the Global South could convene in a similar manner and work together to come up with innovative solutions to the seemingly intractable problems that plague their nations?

In this post, I will break down a few basic classroom practices that allow teachers to engage with best practices in teaching core subjects while also being advocates for social justice in the classroom.

Aspiring and new teachers often have a desire to engage students in issues of social justice but find themselves overwhelmed when presented with scripted curriculum, high stakes test prep, and mentors without the drive or experience of doing it themselves.

Educational disparity is a social justice issue, and we are committed to working with communities to ensure that all students in all neighborhoods have access to an engaging, high quality, 21st century education.

By examining HRE through a historical trajectory, the course engages with current debates on HRE and its contribution to discourse on social justice and education.

Armed with a custom - designed console interface, players will reap the benefits of innovative new social features as they engage in pulse - pounding combat with hordes of demons, acquire items of incredible power, and visit justice upon the Angel of Death.

In conversation with a number of local people involved in arts and cultural work, social justice and activism Barby and sorryyoufeeluncomfortable will rework the script for «Baldwin's Nigger», forming the basis for a performance which engages with many issues we are facing at this time in history and how James Baldwin's writings and thinking resonate with society today.

As a response to the current social and political climate in the United States, the Strange Fire Collective is looking for work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ artists that engages with issues of social justice and critically questions the dominant social hierarchy for our upcoming exhibition Call and Response: Art as Resistance.

Kendler is co-founder of the artist website platform OtherPeoplesPixels, and created the The OPPfund, which gives grants to arts, environmental and social justice organizations, and awards the MAKER Grant each year to two socially or environmentally engaged artists in partnership with Chicago Artists» Coalition.

With performance art, activism, social justice, feminism, and the gay rights movements in its DNA since the beginning, 18th Street has continued to foster and support the work of many of Los Angeles» most engaging and diverse artists, and has built bridges to like - minded artist communities around the globe.

Representing a marked departure in his practice, Titus Kaphar: The Jerome Project is composed of small - scale works that engage with contemporary social issues, particularly the criminal justice system.

Her work engages with the politics of representation, intersectionality and social justice work in the arts.

These works engage recent criticism of the law and the justice system with respect to human rights and social welfare.

Though always engaged with themes relating to social justice and racial equality in his work, Lewis turned to a more abstract, personal expression in the mid-1940s after joining Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning — the group of downtown artist who would become the Abstract Expressionists.

As with many politically engaged artists whose practices take on complex issues of ethnicity, social justice, and gendered cultural agency, Maiolino deconstructs oppressive hierarchies not only on an institutional scale, but in terms of their everyday manifestations in the daily experiences of the disenfranchised.

Our exploration of the Social Lab as a way to close the implementation gap for family justice reform, has revealed how valuable the mediation skillset is to encourage effective collaboration, to interpret the world from a variety of different perspectives, to engage with those both within and outside of the «system», to value curiosity and learning, and to do joint problem - solving.

A highly rated speaker on subjects ranging from the failures of America's justice system to social issues of immense import, Norm Pattis enthralls audiences with his engaging style and content.

Sustainable Community Development Clinic - Engage in economic development projects, both on behalf of clients and on behalf of the public interest, with a goal of increasing social justice and social enterprise in a range of substantive areas including land use, housing, local food, and healthy communities.

Lawyers who subject their feelings to a critical reading may thus find that clients do not seek rescuing, but, in fact, have actively resisted oppressive structures and have developed many tactics, goals, and alliances with larger communities that can be engaged in the struggle for social justice.

Currently, as President of the Asian Youth Centre (Canada Chapter), Nadia promotes social justice and engages with a network of diverse individuals.

In addition to looking at youth citizenship and social justice, The Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada also includes chapters on a range of topics, from ethnography and creative visual methods in research with children, to representations of race and gender in children's books, to how young people engage with consumer culture, to settler colonialism and Indigenous children in Canada.

I encourage the Government's long - term commitment to engaging in formal dialogue with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the Social Justice Commissioner and Congress.

In my first 12 months as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner I have engaged productively with governments, including establishing a regular process for dialogue with government and other key stakeholders.