Sentences with phrase «for social imagination»

Love which has capacity for social imagination, and for a skillful dealing with human problems, is strengthened in itself.

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Just as nobody forecast social networks, blogging or Netflix in the 1990s, the absence for now of any tangible applications other than bitcoin for the blockchain merely points to humankind's deficient imagination.

These «truisms» should form a kind of perimeter for the moral imagination, even if there will be exceptional cases based on social and historical circumstances.

Most often, we do not even know that a battle for our mind is underway, but our minds are constantly bombarded from every direction, through our five senses, through the spiritual realm, through cultural and social pressure, through memories and imagination, and through a wide variety of other sources.

Moreover, objectivity does not rule thought; human imagination, valuation and social location govern how we identify and classify things — and thus, how we construct contexts for comparison.

The idea of neoconservatism as a liberal plot to highjack conservatism for the left might seem hopelessly dated» the social democratic wing of neoconservatism disappeared long ago» but it remains vibrantly alive in the pages of journals like Chronicles and in the imaginations of ideologues attracted to the candidacy of Pat Buchanan.

I do not pretend to understand all the reasons for this gradual drying up of the Protestant imagination in America — and the failure of creativity at the symbolic level should not blind us to the continuing power of the Protestant impulse in personal character and social movements.

In principle, physical education provides the best opportunity for the harmonious development of the entire person, through contests of skill in which intelligence, esthetic imagination, social sensitivity, and moral purpose are channeled through significant physical activity.

They may get together in the modern city to hold a bake sale for some charitable cause, to repair a playground, to clean up the environment, or for a million other purposes that their social imaginations might lead them to.

A society that is almost enamored by social innovation for innovation's sake faces in virtual helplessness a situation that requires — not for the sake of a traditional national interest but for the survival of civilization, if not of mankind itself — an extreme effort of bold, innovating imagination.

And as for the general character of thought — patterns peculiar to such groups, a collective or social imagination, or what Castoriadis calls a «social instituting imaginary,» may be needed to explain the differences between cultures and their peculiar destinies (RI 149).

We now turn to a consideration of the resources for the renewal of the imagination in America that is the necessary precondition and accompaniment to any social transformation.

Now I want to change the frame of reference to the present and argue that (1) since Whitehead's time, there have been at least three profound interrelated changes in the shape of social life; (2) these changes do not nullify his insights, but they do make them relevant in ways he never would have suspected; and (3) his emphasis on imagination, creativity, and a zest for life must be tempered to stress what he could take for granted, but which I believe we can not.

Within those languages are the structure and images of all human imagination and their potential for both social cleavage and coherence.

For the postmodern imagination, strong social unity can only be imposed in artificial, violent, and tyrannical ways.

Any homiletics that is going to engage the religious imagination for the cause of social change must enter this treasure house of tradition and rediscover there the connection to the transcendent and corporate dimensions of imagination that have been lost since the rise of romanticism and the technological society.

(27) Having established some degree of critical distance from the assumed language and values of the culture, how do we develop a poetic and corporate language that can break the rim of normative consciousness and revitalize the religious imagination as a source of energy for social change?

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The importance of marriage today as a social and legal construct for adult relationships has produced entrenched categories that define who we are and limit our imagination.

Through pretending, children practice for adulthood and engage their imagination, creating a cycle of biological and social development.

Play serves all kinds of purposes for kids, including working out social interactions, developing motor skills, exercising imagination, and, not least, burning off energy.

A clear, politically feasible target of one million affordable homes within the lifetime of a single parliament (a third of which would be homes for families) would capture the imagination of the electorate, and project a clear sense of Labour's post-crisis economic and social priorities.

Academic research is curiosity driven, not market driven, and responds to the search for knowledge and understanding in areas as diverse as health, culture, social constructs, astronomy, education, economics, particle physics... a list of topics as diverse as the human imagination.

Hayat Sindi, founder of the i2 Institute for Imagination and Ingenuity in Saudi Arabia, said she thinks many students in the Middle East, particularly women, stop taking science courses at the introductory level because science and science education are not adequately attuned to social needs.

For me, he really epitomised the idea that your imagination is your limit in a time where things were very rigid and when the social position you were born into was the one you were stuck in.»

Luttrell stresses the importance of reflexivity and imagination in conducting research, and sees the potential for empowerment and social change through research relationships.

Benefits of arts education In addition to economic benefits of investment in arts education for students in the primary and secondary sectors there are a plethora of social and intellectual benefits: • encouraging self expression and self awareness • building confidence and self esteem • thinking creatively and conceptually • problem solving • increasing motivation and improving behaviour • developing organisational skills • being able to work collaboratively and independently • developing multiple learning styles • building maturity and appreciation • developing observational skills • raising global awareness and respect for other cultures • promoting literacy through analysis and interpretation • increasing enjoyment and fun in learning • developing spatial and visual skills • encouraging qualitative awareness • seeing different perspectives • openness to subtlety, nuance, flexibility and imagination

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.

Presentations at the NCTE Conference were about narrative as a way of fostering student engagement and motivation, narrative as a way to understand other people's cultures or environments, narrative as a way to create student voice, narrative as a spur to innovative thinking, narrative as a way to learn any academic discipline, narrative as a form of persuasion, narrative as a way to create personal meaning and new knowledge, narrative as an impetus for social change, narrative as a way to inspire creativity, narrative as the beginning of inquiry, narrative as an expression of imagination, narrative as a reflection on one's own process of learning, and narrative as the basis of collaboration among those with multiple perspectives.

The Family Geography Night planning committee; Elementary Social Studies Coach Katie Bercury, third grade teachers Karen Saia, Heather Lisano, Elana Snyder, second grade teacher Michelle Tigges, Librarian / Media Specialist Patrick Murphy, and Technology Integration Specialist Jenn Scheffer look forward to seeing Fox Hill students and their families on Thursday, April 12th from 6:30 - 8:00 pm for a night full of discovery, exploration, imagination, and fun!

Nautilus Awards Recognizes Books and Audio Books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living, and positive social change, while at the same time stimulating the «imagination» and offering the reader «new possibilities» for a better life and a better world.

Reddit, blogs and social media are not «news» by any stretch of the imagination, and reddit in particular is (in) famous for making incorrect assumptions and jumping to conclusions based on the most tenuous to facts, sometimes to the point where people have harmed themselves or others.

Recognizes Books and Audio Books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living, and positive social change, while at the same time stimulating the «imagination» and offering the reader «new possibilities» for a better life and a better world.

Tim then slipped into a tirade about the ubiquity of social media choices that went on for fifteen minutes and included a condemnation of current LEGO models that come practically pre-built, before coming back to the topic, «In my day, you had to use your IMAGINATION.

Bob and Roberta Smith creates brightly coloured text - based paintings with powerful social messages; Yinka Shonibare clads figures in colourful batik to create politically loaded sculptural or photographic tableaux; Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's leading designers, whose Olympic Cauldron fired the imagination of viewers in the opening ceremony in 2012; Rebecca Warren fuses everything from the ideas of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys to the cartoons of Robert Crumb, creating vitrines and lumpy sculptural figures; Conrad Shawcross brings engineering and sculpture into collisions of mechanics, sound, light and space; and Louisa Hutton, of architects Sauerbruch Hutton, designs buildings with a flair for colour and material richness.

For Halilaj, fiction and imagination, metaphor, humour, and poetry all play a roll in an engaged, political and social struggle.

Gretchen Bender: Toal Recall Bill Viola: Survey of a Decade Sally Gall: Tropical Landscapes Joan Nelson: Paintings Billy Al Bengston: Paintings of Three Decades All the News That's Fit for Prints: A Parallel of Social Concerns in Graphic Art of the 1930s / 1980s Rodney Alan Greenblat: Reality and Imagination — Two Taste Treats in One!

The fellowship theme of post democracy is described on the New School's website as «a complex and contradictory term: for some it promises a new lens for the mobilizing forces of social media, considered catalysts for political imagination.»

IFLA and its members in more than 150 countries worldwide believe that people, communities and organisations need universal and equitable access to information, ideas and works of imagination for their social, educational, cultural, democratic and economic well - being.

Even in the age of social media authenticity, leaving something for the hiring manager's imagination is still needed.

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The program is linked to the current PDHPE syllabus and aims to develop children's social and emotional learning, resilience, wellbeing and leadership through topics such as: developing a growth mindset; identifying values and understanding behaviours that help / hinder progress; recognising thoughts and emotions and developing emotional regulation; training our minds through mindfulness meditation; using imaginations and exploring creativity; having an «Attitude of Gratitude»; enhancing communication skills and the power of body language; having the courage to fail; building resilience by knowing and understanding your «internal» world»; and planning for the future.

Play therapy is the means for children to gain self confidence, explore their imagination, develop their vocabulary, learn social skills, and self - control.

A dolls house gives children total creative freedom for role - play activities, perfect for enhancing their social interaction skills as well as their imagination.