Sentences with phrase «for civic engagement»

The starting point for civic engagement in the existing political process is to support voting across the world.

And, environmental literacy is an essential skill for civic engagement.

Outside of work and school, he enjoys traveling, outdoor adventures, sports, and has a deep passion for civic engagement, social justice and human rights.

Santa Monica, CA — As part of its mission to create a forum for civic engagement through the arts, 18th Street Arts Center proudly presents «The Future of Nations,» their 2008 season of exhibitions dedicated to examining the issues related to the 2008 presidential campaign.

Van Lamprou, who founded Dolce Vita Footwear, hopes to turn Clermont's Oak Terrace, the 19th century mansion that was the childhood home of Eleanor Roosevelt, into a space for civic engagement in the spirit of the former first lady.

As part of its mission to create a forum for civic engagement through the arts, 18th Street Arts Center proudly presents «The Future of Nations,» their 2008 season of exhibitions dedicated to examining the issues related to the 2008 presidential campaign.

This year's International deviates from previous ones by offering a refreshing dose of self - awareness and reflection on the museum as a locus for civic engagement.

I mean studying Scripture alongside our social context, so that Scripture is the blueprint for our civic engagement.

For example, David Campbell has found that «students in Catholic schools perform better than students in assigned public schools on all three objectives of civic education — capacity for civic engagement, political knowledge, and political tolerance.»

One critical component of this frenetic period of reform has been the absence of any explicit or managed process for civic engagement even though the Prime Minister's statement on the 19 September 2014 emphasized that «It is also important we have wider civic engagement about how to improve governance in our United Kingdom, including how to empower our great cities.

The recently published Future of England Survey 2014 provides evidence for this argument with its conclusion that people in England see a «democratic deficit» in the way they are governed («devo - anxiety»), and that one dimension of that deficit is a desire for civic engagement.

«In this position, Dr. Rogers will collaborate with faculty across the university and members of the community to help develop a multidisciplinary approach to trauma care and health disparities that will help us better understand and address the social factors that affect victims of violence and underserved populations,» said Derek Douglas, vice president for civic engagement.

Civics often takes a backseat in schools, but educators say the Marjory Stoneman Douglas students - turned - activists are setting a powerful model for civic engagement.

Interestingly, at a time in education when the buzz is around concepts like STEM and 21st - century skills, it is perhaps a nearly 250 - year - old document that holds the most relevancies for students today in regaining a deeper appreciation for civic engagement and a better understanding of the world they are entering.

Ben is co-PI for a international study, led by Roderick Watts and funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, examining community - based youth organizing as a vehicle for civic engagement in South Africa, Ireland, and the United States.

Through her work, Ross uses contemporary art as a catalyst for civic engagement by young people.

The organization is a diverse alliance of artists, organizations, and arts supporters who believe that working together as a panethnic, multidisciplinary community is essential to nurturing the development of artists and arts organizations and to providing meaningful and innovative ways for civic engagement in society.

Georgia Congressman John Lewis discusses the need for civic engagement at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday; Juliana «Jewels» Smith, the creator and writer of the comic series» (H) afrocentric,» talks at 6:30 p.m. on Friday; and William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson discuss their traveling exhibition «Black Pulp!»

To promote active non-violent approaches for civic engagement through building skills for detecting early warning signs, alternative means for resolutions, mediation, advocacy and lobbying for community empowerment.

Samidh Chakrabarti, Facebook's product manager for civic engagement, also explained that Facebook is now proactively looking for foreign - based Pages producing civic - related content inauthentically.

Over the last two years, he said that initial optimism surrounding the potential for civic engagement stemming from a digitally connected world, has subsided to a «concern that people's minds are being manipulated.»

For Young Whan Choi, manager of performance assessments at Oakland Unified School District in California, action civics means even more to students of color, who typically get fewer opportunities for civic engagement and instruction due to historical marginalization.

By transforming its exhibition space into a laboratory and classroom, 18th Street Arts Center's main gallery becomes a space for civic engagement, experimentation, presentation and discourse.

Linda Mai Green, writing for A.i.A., described the show as «offering a refreshing dose of self - awareness and reflection on the museum as a locus for civic engagement.»

With that foundation, our next focus will be developing the social infrastructure for community — for supporting us, for keeping us safe, for informing us, for civic engagement, and for inclusion of all.

In these service projects these students were gaining and demonstrating important competencies for life, for work and for civic engagement: compassion, empathy, imagination, complex thinking, the capacity to understand social challenges, the skills to identify a point of entry to address them, and the courage, commitment and skills to implicate themselves and to collaborate across several dimensions of difference in constructing a solution.

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