Her publications address issues in narrative, African American academic achievement and strategies for creating civic and
intellectual engagement in undergraduate classrooms.
The weight of social science evidence demonstrates that racially diverse schools are associated with achievement in math and reading, better critical thinking, and
increased intellectual engagement for students from all racial groups.
An active member of Portland - based artist collective Appendix, which is known as much
for intellectual engagement as physical practice, his current research explores the resonance of new visual technologies with deep - rooted neurological processes.
We need to see local neighborhood and community development as every bit as worthy of rigorous
intellectual engagement as the structure and functioning of the Court and the US Congress.
In comparison to Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, for example, has a clear ecclesiastical identity and a long tradition of social teaching, both of which have helped to foster serious
intellectual engagement on many of the ethical issues of the present day.
For comparison, the average response to this question from nonscience Ph.D. students was 4.9, indicating somewhat
more intellectual engagement.
Images of such schools are set against descriptions of schools in
which intellectual engagement is driven out by rote memorization and motivation by grades and test scores.
Finally, a new collection of 14 essays, Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism (Oneworld), illuminates the breadth of the
honest intellectual engagement with which many Muslim scholars today address critical and controversial issues.
Indeed, social,
intellectual engagement activates neurotransmission in the brain, brain plasticity, and rewiring, and mitigates brain inflammation and the deleterious effects of oxidative stress on the brain.
Prospective English teachers need to know how cognition and
intellectual engagement develop in children and adolescents because it is that understanding that dictates curriculum.
There is sincere and
unpretentious intellectual engagement here, both in overarching terms — Khan's palimpsests push found materials towards a strikingly original mode of abstraction — and with regards to each individual work, which becomes a distinctive aesthetic commentary on its own source.
The curators celebrate his collaborative ventures, designing sets pieces for dances choreographed by Cunningham and Brown, and his
lifelong intellectual engagement with close friends and lovers, including Twombly and Johns.
The science of early childhood development confirms that infancy and toddlerhood are times of
intense intellectual engagement.1 During this time — a remarkable 36 months — the brain undergoes its most dramatic development, and children acquire the ability to think, speak, learn, and reason.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to outline a Restorative Teacher Education — that is, a method to prepare teachers to create and sustain opportunities
for intellectual engagement for all children while fostering an inclusive classroom ethos.
Set goals and guidelines for the first two years of XYZ University's innovative, comprehensive honors program whose mission is to
increase intellectual engagement and academic rigor in students» freshman and sophomore years
But I could not have developed my own work in that direction without having absorbed her cool detachment and
deep intellectual engagement in the artistic process.
Intellectual engagement with the subject of climate change is increasingly apparent — the government officials, academics and business people I meet are much more open about their expanding investment in low - carbon infrastructure than ever before.
Maybe the social aspects and
intellectual engagement will be worth the hassles.
He had a lust for battle with adversaries, but that same energy would create contexts for
intellectual engagements that made friendship between adversaries possible.
The primary form of
intellectual ENGAGEMENT is through reading, and the second through talking about and writing about what you've read.
I then command myself to act (
the intellectual engagement of what Aquinas calls the imperium), and I cast myself into action as I board the train headed south.
Ward's tradition - oriented and antimodernist Catholic associates are on the «extreme right» and, as such, can be dismissed without the necessity of
intellectual engagement.
Syriza and Podemos are based on four key elements: suffering,
intellectual engagement, populism, and electoral systems.
There has been
no intellectual engagement with the issues and as a consequence there are no answers to how you would solve them.
The researchers explain that
intellectual engagement (via the six factors) declines from infancy to aging adulthood as we move from «broad learning» to «specialization.»
If you want a little emotional and
intellectual engagement, try somewhere else.
Gently poking fun at itself - hello Karen Gillan in hotpants - this is a warm, sparky & surprisingly moving comedy perfect for every age group and ideal for when you need to watch something that requires little in the way of
intellectual engagement.
With colleagues at his Making Caring Common project, Weissbourd produced a report last year called Turning the Tide, seeking to tame the excesses of the college admissions process and reframe it to prioritize ethical and
intellectual engagement, not just long brag sheets of accomplishments.
He assumed a central role, in his totally unassuming way, in guiding
the intellectual engagements of the Special Studies cohort this year,» says Special Studies Program Director John Collins.
She consistently promotes deeper thought and
intellectual engagement.
To explore how these reforms may have influenced
the intellectual engagement of students, I examined changes in time spent reading for pleasure, watching television, and doing homework.
It is also manifested in three dimensions; namely,
intellectual engagement (thinking about the job and ways to improve performance), affective engagement (positive feelings about the job), and social engagement (active participation in work - related discussions).