Sentences with phrase «for social participation»

Adaptation of the Personalized citizen assistance for social participation (APIC) in older adults with disabilities: a feasible intervention to foster social and leisure activities in society

Personalized citizen assistance for social participation (APIC): A promising intervention for increasing mobility, accomplishment of social activities and frequency of leisure activities in older adults having disabilities

What possibilities for social participation still exist?

Not exact matches

They'll have organized social and cultural events, and monthly team challenges in exchange for a year of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.

And the ripple effects — on wages, labor participation and the fate of other social benefits — make it difficult for many people to imagine how it would all turn out.

And reams of social science research show that strong unions do much more than that: They bolster regional economies, increase democratic participation, and even strengthen the social safety net for non-unionized workers.

If you are considering employee advocacy for your organisation but you are not sure how to sustain the participation of your employees on social media, Yekemi's book offers a three - step framework developed through research and real life examples.

He further pointed out that Social Capital is in the cards for participation.

Such a child is also likely to experience serious problems of social and emotional adjustment, for he senses that in his language deficiency the very foundations for his participation in the life of relation — and hence for having any life worth living — are threatened.

Apart from the social services run by the state in which, after all, Christians have as much a share as every one else, it must be said that the participations of «humanists» in private charitable enterprises for the poor, the sick, neurotics, lepers, etc., is relatively modest.

Too great an attachment to the datum self as a methodological starting point commits one unwittingly to solipsism, Hartshorne holds, since one could never achieve a sound epistemological basis for inferring the existence of anything beyond the datum self by this method.31 Further, if it is true that human beings are social all the way down, resistance to a literal participation in the being of a person by others (including their literal purposes) is also a form of impersonalism, according to Hartshorne's analysis — a charge from which Brightman would have reeled, had he realized that this was Hartshorne's implication.

They resurrect John Dewey, who for more than two years (1919 - 1921) lectured in China where he was named a «Second Confucius,» as he expounded his pragmatic ways of education and learning in a «communicating community» through social participation.

It will also be interesting to see if increased participation of New Thought adherents in movements for social change alters the discourse and the strategies of those movements.

At the same time they encourage participation in church social events as a substitute for secular cultural offerings.

The situation in Europe, including Britain, is more nuanced than that in North America, largely because Europe's Muslim populations have a longer and more established social and political history in nations where Muslims (of the theological left, right and center) are represented by sophisticated networks of» mosques and political NGOs that defend the rights of Muslims and shape their participation in civic life, including the introduction of Islamic law for civil cases.

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These fundamentalists detect an anti-Christian value system in the media, and counsel a return to religious fundamentals, which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays and rock concerts, attempts at censorship of media — especially films, television and books — and encouraging participation in church social events as a substitute for secular culture offerings.

This dynamic undergirds the struggles for the unqualified acceptance of Dalits and Adivasis as equal members of Indian human society and demands their fuller participation in all dimensions (social, economic, political, and cultural) of the processes of building the nation - state.

Concretely how do Christians structure the priestly and sacramental life and evangelistic mission of their separate religious congregation, within the framework of their participation in the whole nation's search for a common basis for promoting the politics of democracy and of development with justice for the poor and liberation of the oppressed and for building a common moral social culture to undergird the sense of the larger community based on dignity for all persons and peoples?

What is needed today, I believe, is the radical attempt to work Out a theological pattern for Christian faith which is in the main influenced by process - philosophy, while at the same time use is made of what we have been learning from the existentialist's insistence on engagement and decision, the understanding of history as involving genuine participation and social context, and the psychologist's awareness of the depths of human emotional, conational, and rational experience.

16 In the second place, Wieman was only incidentally concerned with sociology, For him the variety of social structures seemed secondary to the continuous reality of God's work in the world and man's participation therein.

The need for participation in groups and social forms always requires some code whether verbalized or in the form of costume and vestment, as a means of involvement in common action....

My seminary accepted this responsibility because it believes that preparation for ministry requires participation in critical social situations.

For an entire book that deals with the interconnectedness of spiritual life and active participation in matters of social justice, see Gustavo Gutierrez, We Drink from Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of a People (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1984).

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Open participation in social media does not work well for companies with systemic unethical -LSB-...]

Volume XV, Number 2 The Inner Life and Work of the Teacher — Margaret Duberley The Human Body as a Resonance Organ: A Sketch of an Anthropology of the Senses — Christian Rittelmeyer Aesthetic Knowledge as a Source for the Main Lesson — Peter Guttenhöfer Knitting It All Together — Fonda Black The Work of Emmi Pikler — Susan Weber Seven Myths of Social Participation of Waldorf Graduates — Wanda Ribeiro and Juan Pablo de Jesus Pereira Volunteerism, Communication, Social Interaction: A Survey of Waldorf School Parents — Martin Novom A Timeline for the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America — David S. Mitchell Reports from the Research Fellows More Online!

These changes are brought about principally by the increased participation of women in employment, but this has led to a cultural shift in the way men view caring for children — as women's aspirations have changed, so have men's: the desire to participate more in the lives of their children is growing in all social groups, particularly among younger parents.

Instead of focusing on the poor families that do not qualify for Social Security retirement benefits in the first place, the remainder of this paper will focus on the families who are effectively denied full coverage because of their family forms and in spite of their input from taxes and participation in the labor force.

School social workers can help increase school breakfast participation by encouraging schools in their district to implement a breakfast after the bell program and to offer breakfast for free to all students (particularly in schools or school districts with high concentrations of students certified for free and reduced - price school meals).

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Typically, if a child meets the diagnostic criteria for Selective Mutism or social anxiety disorder, etc., is toilet trained, understands English, can separate from a parent / caregiver, and does not have developmental delays that will affect participation, he / she will most likely be accepted.

Democratic Republicanism is more critical of capitalism than most social democratic critiques, because it stresses the importance of freedom for citizen participation as vital to creating autonomy and liberty, and the conflict between labour markets and citizenship.

«My lifelong fight for social justice logically evolved into political participation, and that's a path I believe many people share.

[2] Eric Turner (2012) The Grillini in Italy: New Horizons for Internet - based Mobilization and Participation, Social Movement Studies, 12:2, 214 - 220.

The Labour leader offers an innovative politics of participation which is about doing things «with» people rather than «to» them, sweeping away anachronistic institutions and inherited privilege; if carried forward this might be the platform for a resurgence of British social democracy.

His research interests include cross-national participation; developing tools for working with big data in social science; internet activism and participation; social network analysis; and election fraud.

[5] Lane Kenworthy, professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego, has stated that Sanders is a social democrat and not a democratic socialist -LSB-...] Mike Konczal, an economic policy expert at the Roosevelt Institute, also characterizes Sanders» positions as «social democracy» rather than «socialist», noting that social democracy means support for a mixed economy combining private enterprise with government spending, social insurance programs, Keynesian macroeconomic policies, and democratic participation in government and the workplace - all of which are a part of Sanders» platform.

2) International PB Conference: During this two - day conference organized by The Participatory Budgeting Project, Pratt Institute, and the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CVH leaders and staff, along with over 200 elected officials, community leaders, and activists from across the world, will discuss key topics and trends for this model of grassroots democracy, including PB in Public Housing, PB in Community Organizations, Online Participation, and the PBNYC Briefing (see below).

However, for patients who are already religious, service attendance might be encouraged as a form of meaningful social participation.

The need for time management quickly became apparent as I tried to juggle classes, participation in clubs, and a social life.

As their personal, social, and practical resources diminish, people are able to compensate for a lot of losses; for example, they may offset declining social participation with love and affection of one who is close, she says.

To put these principles into practice, Winkler suggested that social and natural scientists can aid in clarifying priorities for water usage and contribute to standardizing the meanings of «safe» and «accessible» water for different populations, through collaboration with and participation of community members.

Dr Reeves said that results for arts participation were different from those for watching or listening to arts performances, where social class and status were strongly linked to higher rates of arts consumption.

And for Gilg, some research experience abroad and in industry, and participation in an activity that shows good social and organisational skills, is particularly valuable.

Writing in a linked Comment, Alexander Hoon and Elaine Stashinko from the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, USA, say, «As known by people with cerebral palsy, the medical and rehabilitative community now recognises that affected individuals seek the same QoL and social participation as others, rather than just improved physical function for its own sake.

Widening Participation for Equity and Growth - A Strategy for the Development of the Social Dimension and Lifelong Learning in the European Higher Education Area to 2020

We request the Ministers at the Yerevan conference to adopt the document «Widening Participation for Equity and Growth - A Strategy for the Development of the Social Dimension and Lifelong Learning in the European Higher Education Area to 2020».

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