Sentences with phrase «for social relevance»

The New Orleans artist Willie Birch's pair of charcoal drawings, «The Aftermath of Katrina» (2007), is one of the show's few bids for social relevance.

If one makes a list of the best artists of this century, it does not include artists particularly noted for their social relevance, for example, Matisse, Picasso, Miro, Rothko, Morris Louis, Hans Hofmann, Caro, David Smith or Moore.

These movies go for social relevance in the guise of comic - book action (Mutants are a convenient analogy for just about any downtrodden group) and usually wind up focusing on the latter.

Not exact matches

Despite the mind - boggling pervasiveness of social media today, certain myths persist about its relevance for small businesses.

Posting has become a big lab experiment for Madison Avenue, and the social media companies are eager to prove their relevance to corporations, specifically, in terms of return on investment for ad dollars.

To find these micro communities in your vertical, you can check out the web 2.0 lists of social media lists, search for topic relevance and coverage in a search engine and read the social media discovery blogs.

There is no relevance in terms of Twitter profile rank and from experiments I have run using Fiverr, the core problem with social signals is they still appear to produce a QDF effect, quick increase, but difficult to get sticky without links, of course the initial boost and eyeballs on your content for relevant searches can lead to links.

But they are make - or - break events for long - term performance and social relevance...

A Christianity of charity without truth would be more or less interchangeable with a pool of good sentiments, helpful for social cohesion, but of little relevance.

Zaret identifies three types of variables that probably have general relevance to the consideration of audiences: (1) social - structural variables that concern the size, social location, and access to material resources of a potential audience; (2) technical variables that specify some medium by which ideas can be communicated to this audience; and (3) cultural variables that deal with the general symbolic or mental capacities that the audience has at its disposal for processing the ideas to which it is exposed.

In relating this saga to the contemporary situation we can immediately see its christological relevance for such social issues as capital punishment and for such enduring psychic realities as the inner torment and rootlessness that sin fosters.

Reinhold Niebuhr is less dualistic in that he stresses the relevance of love as an «impossible possibility» to every human situation, but he warns so continually against a sentimental substitution of love for the requirements of justice that the major impact of his thought is a dichotomy in which again justice, and not love, is the determining principle of social ethics.

For example, there are those who have tried existential and personalistic categories; those who have applied linguistic analysis to biblical statements; those who have advocated the dehellenization of traditional formulations; those who have experimented with political and social categories of the secular city; those who believe in the relevance of pragmatic philosophy or Whiteheadian process philosophy, and so on.

Thanks to the leadership of the Dept. and the relevance of it in our time, the concern for social analysis has taken root as an essential aspect of the Christian theological enterprise, not only in the TTS but also in most other Indian theological schools and in the Serampore University curriculum itself.

At this point we say simply that the real question is not whether the Bible is relevant for social problems but whether the reader has sufficient courage to follow the relevance he will see.

The goal is to create a Public Philosophy or Civil Culture, in which insights of religions, secular ideologies and social sciences are constantly brought into interaction and are tested for their relevance to humanize the contemporary forces of modernity which have run amok.

Here we see a social and political issue of immediate relevance to those for whom the kingdom is first.

For relevance to JT Brown's protest against social injustice: There's too much social injustice, but you can't blame everything on social injustice.

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

It is at this point that you see the emergence of socio - economic factors that remain of relevance after the war and into the Communist era: a drive for economic self - sufficiency, social welfare stimulated by the refugee crisis — the government needed to cope with 80 million refugees.

The findings have particular relevance for teenagers, who naturally sleep much longer and later than their school schedules allow, and thus suffer more social jetlag than other age groups.

The scientific evidence for global warming and for humanity's role in the increase of greenhouse gasses becomes ever more unimpeachable, as the [United Nations] IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report] findings are going to suggest; and such activity has a profound relevance, not just for the environment, but in ethical, economic, social and political terms as well.

Examples might be a manuscript that examines social - cognitive processes and their relevance to the etiology of depression, a manuscript that examines how the interaction between two brain regions places people at risk for anxiety disorders, or a manuscript that examines how cultural variables shape the experience or expression of schizophrenia (of course, these are only three potential examples among hundreds).

Dead Sea, Jordan 7th November, 2017 Over 2,500 Science Leaders from over 120 Countries Gather at the World Science Forum 2017 Jordan Calling for a More Responsible and Ethical Use of Innovation to Address the Social & Economic Relevance, Influence & Responsibilities of Science Arab Region To Explore Establishing A Regular Open Science Forum.

Moreover, our main series of experiments subsequently tested for a social skill with direct functional relevance in both populations, the ability to assess age - related social dominance [26 — 28].

I was intrigued by the relevance of this book to my life as a blogger, given that the author is best known for creating the @dknyprgirl Twitter account at a time when few brands had any idea what they were doing on social media.

As the preeminent gathering for upscale fall cinema, the Toronto International Film Festival prides itself on relevance and social consciousness.

The film, a Cannes favorite that rebooted for awards season at TIFF, is everything that the Academy is chasing after both from the optics perspective — it's a film about equality on all fronts, from racial to gender to marriage — and from an overall logistics perspective, since it's an earnest and straightforward true story with social relevance that will be an undeniable across - the - board hit with viewers of all stripes.

In «Learning from Rudolf Steiner: The Relevance of Waldorf Education for Urban Public School Reform,» a study published in 2008 in the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, researcher Ida Oberman concluded that the Waldorf approach successfully laid the groundwork for future academics by first engaging students through integrated arts lessons and strong relationships instead of preparing them for standardized tests.

Following plenary sessions, participants selected interactive courses that examined themes of 21st century learning like «Teaching for the Future,» «The New Museum Mindset: What We Can Learn about the Future of Learning from the Future (and Past) of Museums,» and «Our Bodies, Our Minds, Our «Selves»: The Relevance of Social and Affective Neuroscience to Education.»

The controversies that emerged from his research recruited exceptionally talented people from a variety of fields; his wide - ranging intellectual interests expanded the conceptual tools available for understanding important aspects of childhood and adolescence; and finally, his expectations for policy research have been institutionalized in ways that have improved both the relevance and quality of social - science research in general.

In response to a report from Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn that most American 17 - year - olds have deep deficits in historical knowledge, Benjamin Barber sardonically proposed a multiple - choice test for 47 - year - olds: his point was that both we and our teenage children would do well on items of immediate social, cultural, and economic relevance and poorly on the rest.

As you prepare your proposals, please consider the following areas of relevance for social studies in PK - 12 and higher education settings:

Instead of talking about how much teens love their Facebook (and rolling our eyes), we need to articulate the social and cognitive adroitness that kids demonstrate when using these tools and the relevance of these skills for succeeding in the post-industrial professional age.

Reimers, who worked as an education specialist advising governments at the World Bank and the Harvard Institute for International Development, is very interested in the quality of education children receive, the relevance of what they learn, and the relationship between instructional improvement and social and political development.

From film kits and lesson plans to the building blocks of a customized Learning Plan — texts, student tasks and teaching strategies — our resources will help you bring relevance, rigor and social emotional learning into your classroom — all for FREE.

We know that People for Education's research foci on health, creativity and innovation, social - emotional skills, citizenship, and quality learning environments are of direct relevance to school library practice.

SECTION I Introductions Chapter 1: Introducing Responsible Independence Chapter 2: Teacher Mindset and Skills SECTION II Establishing Relationship and Order Chapter 3: Establishing Relationship Gatherings Social conferences Chapter 4: Establishing Purposes and Agreements Preparing for Goal Setting with Assessment Goals and Declarations Social Contract Chapter 5: Living Our Agreements in Daily Routines Modeling One Routine at a Time Recording Ideas to Support Expectations Role Play Reflective Loop Reinforcing, Reminding, and Remodeling Chapter 6: Engaging Students Meet Students Where They Are Developmentally Engaging Students through Relevance Engaging Students through Pacing Engaging Students through Participation Engaging Students through Clarity and Order

Now that she had her learning platform, she set out to create a 16 - day holistic and all - inclusive curriculum to increase rigor and relevance and address all of the Arizona state standards for social studies, math, science and writing.

It fundamentally lacks social and cultural relevance for the most disadvantaged children, impacting on their confidence and engagement in learning.

From advocating for improved early childhood education, to increasing the rigor and relevance of curriculum, to fostering understanding of cultural and social mores amongst disparate groups of students, schools will be at the forefront of addressing the heavy - duty issues that the greater population faces as we continue to change in terms of how we look, the languages we speak, and the traditions we celebrate.

Even if you use in your English essay, for example, data on social mobility in Britain, specify the time of the study, the purpose of research, and relevance of this study to your essay writing.

Books for Change is an alternative and independent publishing and distribution initiative set up to offer the readers informed choices on issues of social relevance from a development perspective.

An opportunity for reflecting on sport, a subject of ever - increasing relevance in its anthropological, social, educational, economic and cultural aspects.

The story critiques the social factors that ignite war, and holds relevance for the artist given our current political climate.

This re-assertion of social relevance for abstraction, and even the monochrome, hadn't been emphasized to such a degree since Malevich and Rodchenko.

For those who might question the relevance of such a show in their lives, Times art critic Christopher Knight delivered an opening line of his review that read: «Given deplorable declarations of American xenophobia now splashed across newspaper front pages, clogging social media outlets and upending television news shows, there could be no more impeccable a moment for a retrospective of Jimmie Durham's art.&raqFor those who might question the relevance of such a show in their lives, Times art critic Christopher Knight delivered an opening line of his review that read: «Given deplorable declarations of American xenophobia now splashed across newspaper front pages, clogging social media outlets and upending television news shows, there could be no more impeccable a moment for a retrospective of Jimmie Durham's art.&raqfor a retrospective of Jimmie Durham's art.»

In exchange for receiving a tattoo, each recipient will be asked to record a video diary discussing the historical and social relevance of their selection.

Her involvement with the medium of photography began with an undergraduate thesis entitled Photography as a source for history: the experience of the Farm Security Administration (2005), in which she analyzed the relevance of the FSA's documentation within the social and political history of the U.S. and its contribution to the history of photography as an artistic form.

Social media and the projection of the self on screens by models as a way of sustaining relevance or advertising products and lifestyle experiences creates endless possibilities for reading and misreading the individual.