Sentences with phrase «engaged citizenship»

There's a great temptation to lash out — or simply check out, which hardly feels like engaged citizenship.

While these artists do not adhere to utopian impulses of previous eras, they nevertheless envision novel collective relationships and emergent models of engaged citizenship, where power is not dispensed with but instead re-routed to other ends.

Rather, success is how well it sustains the ideals, values and engaged citizenship on which free societies depend.

The Rix Awards for Corporate Citizenship and Engaged Leadership were founded by Chair Dr. Don Rix, C.M., O.B.C. and presented the inaugural engaged citizenship awards ceremony.

This is coupled with increased prosocial behavior as well as increased confidence, persistence, empathy, and more engaged citizenship.

Cape Romain Environmental Education Charter School's mission is to create a small and diverse collaborative learning community that immerses students in critical thinking, environmental stewardship, and engaged citizenship through meaningful and innovative learning experiences.

Throughout his lifetime Judd advocated for the importance of art and artistic expression; he regarded land preservation, empirical knowledge, and engaged citizenship as fundamental aspects of society and he wrote extensively on these and other subjects.

From large - scale collaborative civil disobedience actions taking place on the streets, to the slow dissemination of PublicAccess sculptures which happen to open bus shelters around the world, to a gallery practice that illuminates the inner machinations of advertising content and persuasion, Seiler's practice attempts to challenge the commercial discourse that monopolizes public space while cultivating engaged citizenship.

I have been getting involved in ChangeCamp, the movement to engage citizenship in the work of government, as have a few other library - related folk.

The internet's potential for political mobilization has been highlighted for more than a decade, but we know little about what particular kinds of information and communication technologies are most important when it comes to getting people involved in politics and about what this means for the active exercise of engaged citizenship.

With a passion for education, David Weinstein saw the gap between the inadequate writing skills of high school students and the 21st - century demands of colleges, workplaces, and engaged citizenship.

On February 7, jazz musician and educator Wynton Marsalis visited the Ed School for the discussion, «Educating for Moral Agency and Engaged Citizenship,» touching on how jazz concepts can be applied to life both in and outside the classroom.

In the long run, greater social and emotional competence can increase the likelihood of high school graduation, readiness for postsecondary education, career success, positive family and work relationships, better mental health, reduced criminal behavior, and engaged citizenship (e.g., Hawkins, Kosterman, Catalano, Hill, & Abbott, 2008; Jones, Greenberg, & Crowley, 2015).

Engaged citizens The Salzburg Global Seminar on The Transformative Power of Music (2010) believes that music is a proven gateway to engaged citizenship, personal development and wellbeing; that inspiration and rewards unleashed by music are universal benefits that must be available to all as a human right.

All told, it is impossible to spend your school - age years at Democracy Prep and not get the message that active and engaged citizenship is what's expected of you, with voting a rock - bottom, core adult responsibility.

Ideally, you emerge not just with a private plan of self - betterment but also disposed toward a lifetime of active, engaged citizenship.

Schools and teachers may indeed be making a Herculean effort to raise reading scores, but these efforts do little to improve reading achievement and to prepare children for college, a career, and a lifetime of productive, engaged citizenship.

Avalon's goal is to prepare students for college and life in a strong, nurturing community that inspires active learning, engaged citizenship, and hope for the future.

Our students learn to create games about local and global social issues in order to promote global awareness and engaged citizenship.

These include challenges along the path to high school graduation, college success, career satisfaction, engaged citizenship, and life in general.

The Civics Education Initiative is a first step to ensure all students are taught basic civics about how our government works, and who we are as a nation... things every student must learn to be ready for active, engaged citizenship.

Founded in 2010, Eskolta has engaged in over 100 projects in which we work alongside educators in public schools to research, develop, implement, and codify effective practices for innovatively engaging adolescents in school and preparing them for meaningful careers, college success, community involvement, and engaged citizenship.

And they also want students who have social - emotional skills, work habits, and values that provide a foundation for meaningful employment, engaged citizenship, and a happy family life.

Vision and mission: Avalon School prepares students for college and life in a strong, nurturing community that inspires active learning, engaged citizenship, and hope for the future.

Consistently arguing for the importance of engaged citizenship, Judd did not view his work as an artist as separate from political action.

The Cooper Union is committed to the principle that an education in the Humanities and Social Sciences provides the ethical, social and humanistic framework crucial to personal development, professional excellence, and engaged citizenship.

The show's curator, Johanna Burton, avers that they imagine «novel collective relationships and emergent models of engaged citizenship,» but much of the work is more self - reflexively preoccupied with art than with worldly affairs.

As the product of decades of avid reading, the contents of the library are both the source of Roslers work and an installation / artwork that continues many of the concerns with public space, access to infor mation and engaged citizenship that traverse her entire oeuvre.»

Gilliam increasingly embodied the idea that free, and free - ranging, expression was itself a form of engaged citizenship.

In this Clay Shirky talk at TED Global, he describes how democratic principles of freedom of expression and engaged citizenship can be enabled online by the use of «distributed version control», or software that allows «collaboration without coordination.»

In the long run, greater social and emotional competence can increase the likelihood of high school graduation, readiness for postsecondary education, career success, positive family and work relationships, better mental health, reduced criminal behavior, and engaged citizenship (e.g., Hawkins, Kosterman, Catalano, Hill, & Abbott, 2008; Jones, Greenberg, & Crowley, 2015).

And they also want students who have social - emotional skills, work habits, and values that provide a foundation for meaningful employment, engaged citizenship, and a happy family life.