Sentences with phrase «focus on a critique»

Discussion focused on a critique of Rhode Island's education policies and student performance in Quality...

I agree that you don't want a reader who hates your genre — in my experience, the comments seems to focus on critiquing the genre as a whole rather than your work in particular — but I think it can be incredibly useful to learn what does and does not appeal to the reader who wouldn't ordinarily pick your book off the shelf.

I focus on critique partners for a reason.

Whether on a writing community such as FictionPress or Wattpad, or a Meetup group that focuses on critiquing fellow writers» work in person, it's a vital step of the writing process to share your works - in - progress with beta readers.

Jade's works focus on a critique of our society that is the result of an individual discovery process.

Emerging out of the «Picture Generation» — a group of artists focused on a critique of photographic media — James Welling has gone on to experiment successfully in nearly every photographic genre.

Focusing on critique of norms and power relationships, the journal provides an international forum for articles reporting on original research, theoretical pieces and review essays from around the world.

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Although Paul's filibuster was technically against Brennan's nomination, his remarks focused primarily on civil liberties issues, offering a scathing critique of the Obama's administration's use of unmanned drones, and refusal to rule out military strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil.

Fortune has previously reported on what can happen when the diversity conversation focuses on avoiding conflict and critique or improving a company's image, rather than actively fostering inclusion.

My critique of the contemporary university will focus on Berlin and Phoenix.

While some focus on its potential to inspire a bloody «cycle of violence,» the most potent critique of anger is actually made by those less concerned with drawing attention to its negative political consequences.

Much of the current theological critique of liberal society focuses not so much on democracy as a system of political representation as on liberalism as a form of society that operates, or seeks to operate, without a substantive conception of the good.

My point was simply that the critique of the poets in the second book of the Republic does not focus on that point.

He focuses his critique on the purportedly pure and nonbiased accounts of religion offered by Schleiermacher and William James.

To speak instead of this or that «pluralism» raising issues for theological schooling at least has the advantage of tending in current usage to keep the focus of analysis and critique on what is concretely actual.

Most of Ogden's critique of my book focuses on chapters 8 - 10, in which I argue for a distinctive structure of Jesus» existence paralleling that attributed to him at Chalcedon.

But I can't help but to respectfully question the wisdom of focusing one's self (writings) on «a critique of all that is wrong with religion and the church.»

But Willard would critique «right wing theology,» too, and the reductionist focus on the individual forgiveness of sins.

A critique should also focus on the relative absence of sensible and informed religious faith from general programming.

The first focuses on the questions of language and hermeneutics raised by the gender - feminist critique.

Bettina, well, since you mentioned it... I do think the TLT critiques have focused a lot on minutiae.

«Growing Kids the Ezzo Way» by Dr. Philip Ryken, 10th Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia «Preparation for Behavioral Pediatrics» by Rebecca Prewett «A Critique of GKGW» by Dr. Kent McClain, contains a list of out of context or misapplied Scriptures Focus on the Family statement touches briefly on misapplication of Scripture

Included in the CCSS are Standards for Mathematical Practice, many of which focus on academic behaviors and attitudes such as perseverance, constructing viable arguments, critiquing others» arguments, and paying attention to precision.

Regardless of where you come down on Chait's critique of Westen's thesis (I'm mostly siding with Chait), it suggests another angle of analysis: most punditry, particularly of the blog and cable news variety, focuses on the messaging side of politics.

Asked if de Blasio will go on the attack himself, perhaps critique Albanese's record or past, Klein said, «We'll see what happens when they're on the stage... you can expect him to be pretty focused on talking about his record and his plans for the future.»

[49] Prior to Pataki's departure, New York Post political writer Fred Dicker wrote a scathing critique of Pataki's tenure, accusing the Governor of broken promises, inattentiveness to his duties, and a focus on maintaining power.

While Moskowitz has not been shy in critiquing de Blasio, she largely avoided calling him out over the last several months, focusing instead on evangelizing for charters and promoting her network during a slew of high - profile national appearances.

The critique of Espaillat in East Harlem during the last election was that he was a little too focused on ethnicity.

The race is causing tension within the Bronx Democratic County party, whose leaders were hoping Rivera would run uncontested in the primary to keep things civil between the two rivals and allow them to focus more on representing their shared constituents and less on critiquing each other.

This article is especially relevant today not only because it is a critical review of past research on moral education viewed through the lens and the work of the authors, but because it is also a critique of the current status of higher education and an argument for the need to focus more intentionally on equity and fairness.

In this wide - ranging critique of alternative medicine, Offit focuses on factors that motivate people to turn to such therapies.

This was deliberately framed to give a broader overview than the charge to the Wegman committee, which was specifically focused on Michael Mann's papers and the critiques of those papers.

What initially seems to be a horror flick exploiting the American far right loony fringe could actually be seen as a critique of America in general, focussing on sex, religion and politics.

To preface my feelings on the film, before we even jump into the plot synopsis and critique, I have to admit that films focusing on high science concepts and emerging technology have always been fascinating to me, especially when it involves the human mind.

It brings a subtle critique to the table, but focuses on the person, and not necessarily the broader picture.

Catherine Snow: Incorporating Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine Snow.

High school photography teachers explore issues, problems, and pleasures of the field and focus on the art of critique, teaching methods, the wet and digital darkroom processes, and possible assignments.

The California Business Roundtable's report, «Restructuring California Education: A Design for Public Education in the Twenty - First Century,» is one of two new critiques that focus on the failure of the public schools to adequately educate minority students, who constitute nearly half of California's total enrollment.

Lesson focusing on the humanist critiques of the sanctity of life.

Further, it is extremely important to emphasize that our report focused on a number of other civil rights dimensions in charter schools, none of which have been addressed in this critique.

The Common Core State Standards, adopted by 45 states, feature an increased focus on deeper learning, or students» ability to analyze, synthesize, compare, connect, critique, hypothesize, prove, and explain their ideas.

We use student - centered instructional techniques focused on three specific forms of engagement: making deep mathematical connections, justifying and critiquing mathematical thinking, and solving challenging problems.

While this tactic remains popular, it's not always effective: Since people tend to remember the first and last things they hear, they focus on the praise at the ends and not the critique in the middle.

One common critique of GCI's findings and other research that focused on charter school finances is that, academic performance should be the metric indicating whether a charter school is practicing fiscal responsibility.

This school's Creative Leadership Team is focused on «Artists» Inquiry and Critique» professional development to help teachers embrace simple yet deep ways of integrating the arts into other content areas — and assessing their teaching using the critiquing processes that artists use.

The program focuses on problems of practice - studying practice, engaging in constructive critique of practice, and improving one's practice.

One of the critiques of the API score used for over 10 years was that it only focused on test scores to rank schools.

In contrast to more traditional critiques of America 2000, which focus on specific shortcomings or underserved constituencies, Professor Giroux's analysis argues the basic conflict between this reform effort and an «emancipatory definition of substantive democracy»» (p. 3).

Rather than focusing on the content or the message, learners are busy critiquing hair styles, fashion, and anything else that demonstrates the content is out - of - date.

Focusing on vocabulary development will help students to construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.