Sentences with phrase «ideological commitment»

Needless to say, this is a conception of education that requires certain ideological commitments.

Can ideological commitment protect children's psychological well - being in situations of political violence?

Robbins sums up, «Today, as the Williamsburg schools show, integration is an uneven process at best, hampered by geography, legal limits and, critics say, a lack of ideological commitment from the city.»

They may well be strongly motivated by ideological commitment to libertarianism (the political philosophy which prioritises individuals excitingly pursuing their self - interest) and faith in the powers of new transformative technologies as well as in the few genius individual entrepreneurs who will lead us into a new kind of post-bureaucratic and post-state society.

Today, as the Williamsburg schools show, integration is an uneven process at best, hampered by geography, legal limits and, critics say, a lack of ideological commitment from the city.

Is this not an indication of how ideological commitments shape our perception of risk?

As long as scholars» findings are subject to the scrutiny of others - what the philosopher Karl Popper identifies as the requirements of «intersubjective testability» - scientific inquiry can proceed amid deeply held ideological commitments.

Her claim today at the Chicago Tribune editorial board meeting that ISIS is motivated by the words of U.S. lawmakers, rather than a deep ideological commitment to waging war on the West to expand their caliphate, shows a shocking lack of understanding of the jihadists» true motivations.»

Heeding that call, Israel's pre-state leaders developed an early ideological commitment to preserving and expanding the water supply.

It says that political and ideological commitments run deep, that they are often unconscious, that the assumption that we are able to suspend them is an Enlightenment myth, that «the political» is everywhere, that buried ideological premises shape so many things we take for granted that we don't realize their workings.

Most of the Eastern Europeans were ostensibly Marxist, but it quickly became evident that they were distancing themselves from previous ideological commitments.

My still - nascent ideological commitments acquired a vengeful overlay: I'll get them.»

So you are a reasonably successful business person with an interest in politics, but you lack the elementary ideological commitment actually to take out a Labour Party membership card.

Their position is driven by Culture War animosity towards greens, scientists, do - gooders and so on, or by ideological commitment to a conservative / libertarian position that would be undermined by the recognition of a global problem that can only be fixed by changes to existing structures of property rights.

What is required of me by faith in terms of the «corporate responsibility» of the department or college or university — not first of all in terms of South African investments, but in terms of ideological commitments and personnel decisions?

Although Labor's traditional factions have persevered, what's missing now is the ideological commitment that initially nurtured them.

One answer, obviously, could be a deep, personal, ideological commitment to VA privatization.

All the Conservative Government had to do was manage this sustainable fiscal framework, while implementing its ideological commitment to smaller government.

For one thing, these failures and problems describe the public schools as well, especially if you think some of the ideological commitments that animate a great deal of the educational establishment are dangerous in themselves.

Regrettably, she had suffered abusive attacks, even threats, but the implication that responsible criticism of her leadership was unjust distorted the very public record of her ideological commitments.

It suggests that the ideological commitments of many of our religiously informed activists, writers, and leaders have led to self - inflicted blindness.

The certainty in question is that of ideological commitment, which is held to generate intolerance and militancy toward persons informed by rival, often equally certain, commitments.

Ideological commitment and passion lead to brutality and moral blindness.

It is tragic to see a particular judgment about the degree of Marxist - Leninist influence in the Sandinista party regarded as the sign of an ideological commitment to Marxism - Leninism.

The fact that the Christian socialist vision has generally been theologically well grounded may have contributed to its ideological vagueness — for all ideological commitments are relativized by the element of religious transcendence.

Within this seemingly technocratic, pragmatic and essential policy, there is an ideological commitment to shrinking the size of the state and thus limiting the liabilities of the state.

For the Left, the Coalition is firstly vicious: this viciousness is played - out through an ideological commitment to a smaller state, an emaciated welfare system and a conceited uninterestedness about inequality.

Historically, of course, this meant that it held its ideological commitments lightly, recognising that doctrine and dogma — secular or religious — could blunt its effectiveness as a political movement dedicated to an improvement in the material conditions of working people.

«He actually seems to have some ideological commitment, which could get the Labour Party to think about what it actually stands for.»

- Abandoning the ideological commitment to tax cuts remained David Cameron's best hope for a «Clause Four moment», but he would retreat into tax and spending cuts and neo-Thatcherite monetarism.

The study claims the Tories» dismissal of welfare spending and rejection of universalism stem from an ideological commitment to reducing public spending as a moral end in itself.

Republicans stuck together while Democrats balanced their ideological commitment to a progressive cause against their desire to prolong their power.

One of the problems we have in Nigeria is that our political parties are set up on no ideological commitments.

And he is doing that because of an ideological commitment to hard Brexit.

In his book Denialism: How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet, and threatens our lives, for example, Michael Specter argues that denialists «replace the rigorous and open - minded scepticism of science with the inflexible certainty of ideological commitment».

Indeed, many Christian parents do not develop a strong, ideological commitment to the Christian school.

First, a national education plan would animate the Democratic Party's ideological commitment to providing equal opportunity for all.

Slogans such as «education is the new civil right» sound forthright, but they burden practical policy discussions with tense personal and ideological commitments.

A report by the global teacher union confederation, Education International, describes England (and Chile) as the «emblematic cases» of an ideological commitment to the neoliberal reform of state education and a push towards marketisation and so - called business solutions.

This willingness to modify the program structure may be another expression of the school's focus on student learning as opposed to an ideological commitment to a particular instructional method.

Waste will be created by the unnecessary and expensive addition of unwanted school places, just to suit the Conservative Party's ideological commitment to the introduction of a chaotic marketplace».

Many of their conservative opponents are applying a single, abstract principle — an ideological commitment to localism in education.