Sentences with phrase «for civic life»

All of this is to say that the movement through the liberal arts was simultaneously a moral and spiritual journey that formed the child in preparation for civic life.

She makes two helpful distinctions in her discussion of models for civic life.

On the other hand, he realized that competition among religious groups of strong conviction could have disastrous consequences for civic life.

In addition, preparation for civic life is literacy work, which is impossible without consideration of technology.

They also must prepare students for a civic life in which they will have to work with fellow citizens of very different views to develop policies and institutions that can advance shared goals of peace, prosperity, and democratic deliberation.

By focusing on the well - being of students after graduation in relation to their undergraduate program, the report returned to a basic premise of a liberal - arts education: moral formation for civic life.

To ferret out what the ethnic church means for civic life, Ecklund knew that she needed a point of comparison.

Republicans are acting like he's the worst thing for civic life since Nero rocked a fiddle.

Educating for civic life is thus complicated by student experiences within our increasingly messy information culture while being mediated by slippery democratic values that are personal in nature.

How might a teacher support students» learning about the Neolithic Revolution with attention to preparation for civic life through technology - related literacy practices, given a recognition of democratic values?

About Blog St. James Cathedral is both an Anglican parish church ministering to the historic St. Lawrence neighbourhood and a cathedral, making it the spiritual centre of the diocese and a focal point for the civic life of Toronto, one of Canada's most prominent cultural and financial centres.

The bottom line is that public schools can take a lesson from private schools about how to prepare students for civic life, not only in providing skills, but also in providing the confidence to use those skills.

In the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards, the call for students to become more prepared for the challenges of college and career is united with a third critical element: preparation for civic life.

We opened this section by suggesting that teacher educators should explore with preservice teachers how digital technologies shape and are shaped by education and to examine the deeper theoretical and pragmatic understanding of the core purpose of social studies to prepare for civic life.