Sentences with phrase «ideas about democracy»

A panel discussion in which artists Carla Herrera - Prats and Carlos Motta discuss ideas about democracy and access, archives and standardization with Tim Rollins, artist and co-founder of Group Material, Creative Time curator Nato Thompson, and Art in General curator Eva Diaz.

«Advanced» ideas about democracy: Toward a pluralist conception of citizen education.

The psychologists knew that what they found caused discomfort and challenged old - fashioned ideas about democracy, but scientists - they said - could not be held responsible for their findings.

Not exact matches

Private companies are viewed more favourably than state - owned firms, and the CEOs were lukewarm about the idea of using ownership policy to promote democracy, such as limiting the ability of companies based in undemocratic countries to buy Canadian assets.

Stout's initial examination of piety and hope in American democracy, which he traces from Emerson to the «blues sensibility» of Ralph Ellison and connects to Augustine's ideas about virtue, may seem right on target.

Even if they are wrong, the idea that a court can declare that someone's public statements about a controversial political issue are lies and punish them with criminal penalties strikes at the very heart of democracy.

I've read a book about antique political systems and I read that Aristotle refused democracy because he didn't support the idea of the rule of the poor.

Andrew Rasiej, cofounder of the tech politics conference and website Personal Democracy Forum, * talks about «videracy» — a new literacy defined by the ability to produce videos that can express complex ideas.

There were countless discussions about getting involved in State Legislatures and winning back local chambers so we can develop our ideas in the laboratories of democracy that can be state government.

«All the candidates contribute ideas and their proposals, and I think that's what democracy is all about, to give the public a choice to make a decision,» she said.

«@democraticaudit: We need to look at other parliamentary democracies for ideas about how to run debates http://t.co/tsXst8KgYd» @ONENewsNZ

We need to look at other parliamentary democracies for ideas about how to run televised debates http://t.co/UEAYOVldzq

We need to look at other parliamentary democracies for ideas about how to run televised debates http://t.co/SydxNKxF1B

You know, people sometimes say that when students from China come here and study and they go back, that they are bringing back western ideas, bringing back, you know, values of human rights and democracy, but that's partly true and definitely I have seen a lot of people come back with these kinds of ideas, well others come back and they have had such a negative experience in the United States that they become defensive about the one - party system, they become fans of it in someways.

Whether they're learning from the stories of immigrants, investigating democracy, creating a video about their Education Vision, or developing ideas about literacy, my students need clear expectations, they need models, and they need feedback.

These ideas are likely to have left an impression on the public, perhaps fueling cynicism about politics and about the democratic process, and undermining the trust in institutions and in one another, across lines of difference, that is essential for the functioning of representative democracy.

And in a wonderful and timely bit of irony, the College Board's forthcoming renovation of the SAT tests — markedly more influential than the AP (and perhaps the Common Core itself) in shaping what kids have to learn in school if they want to go to a good college — includes enough attention to the seminal documents of American history and the ideas they embody to give pause to Chinese authorities who really don't want their kids learning about democracy and freedom while preparing to seek entry to a U.S. university.

Anybody who thinks it's a great idea to eschew democracy in publishing and only allow books approved by «gatekeepers» might think about the idea that the gatekeepers tend to be people like the moron who scrawled this article.

«Together I make the hands spell «democracy» but the people don't have any real idea about what democracy is,» said Capote, who views his manipulation of their hands as mirroring how the Cuban people are always being manipulated, consciously or unconsciously.

Blair had sharpened his ideas about leadership and the failings of democracy in the years since he left power.

The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key internet value (this year, online participation in democracy), focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills), and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet.

«Indeed a democracy can not exist without that freedom to express new ideas and to put forward opinions about the functioning of public institutions.

For instance, the statement «[f] ree speech, particularly when the speaker (writer) may suffer serious consequences from his / her ideas, may require anonymity» seems ironic in a democracy — one might ask, well what about personal responsibility?