Sentences with phrase «identities around language»

Faculty at the School of Education are engaged in research that looks at language acquisition and different types of literacy in a variety of contexts: from how children learn from one another, to how students form identities around language and literacy, to understanding the role that technology can play in fostering vocabulary acquisition.

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Several scientists believe that holding U.S. meetings under these circumstances would violate the statutes of the International Council for Science, the umbrella organization for scientific societies around the world, which «opposes discrimination based on such factors as ethnic origin, religion, citizenship, language, political or other opinion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age.»

Many of the staff also began experimenting with new language in their questions or observations, which increased comfort levels around the topic of gender identity and broadened the scope and range of the discourse.»

sj's research is framed around trans * + disciplinary perspectives on social justice, which cut across theory, epistemology and pedagogy and links across socio - spatial justice, Urban Education, preservice and inservice secondary language arts teacher dispositions, and marginalized / undervalued student literacies and identities.

Within the hearts and minds of all students around the world right now — no matter what their economic, academic, social, cultural, religious, language, gender or racial identities — is an inherent desire to expand their abilities, capacities, wisdom and experiences, thereby creating the world they want to live in.

Like Ligon, their work often deals with the shifting experience of American identity, examining loaded questions around language, power, race, gender and sexuality.

His practice centers around language, abstraction, history, and identity.

Her work is conceptually organized around the construction of image, language, narrative, and space, and she has often probed individual identity and the boundaries of the subject in relation to the external world.

In the mid-60s, Brehmer began making enlarged reproductions of postage stamps, franked and perforated around the edges, which impose an abstract language onto the figurative images borne by the stamps, while at the same time reinforcing their identity as stamps.

A short piece of prose in the press release introduces the theme around identity - building, cultural construction and social interaction that forms new languages and defines «the crumbling away of old cultural and social model boundaries»:

Then, product design caught on as an idea around corporate identity, and the notion of design language came about.

Snap Judgments explores African photography in terms of content and style, organized into four main thematic groups that reflect the issues addressed by African artists today — landscape; urban formations; the body and identity; and history and representation — around which Africa's experimental artists have articulated individual artistic styles and languages.

Hank talked about the Middle Passage, when slave traders kidnapped millions of people of diverse cultures, languages and identities, packed them tightly into ships, sent them halfway around the world and put them in the same category as a people.

«If we're starting to talk about culture and identity and lack of communication between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people — often culture and language will be at the root of any conflict around the world.

«GLENN LIGON: Encounters and Collisions» @ Nottingham Contemporary Nottingham, England Curated by Glenn Ligon, this exhibition brings together the work of 45 artists whose work «often deals with the shifting experience of American identity, examining loaded questions around language, power, race, gender and sexuality.»