Sentences with phrase «into civic life»

«Participatory budgeting brings new voices into civic life, and PBNYC shows that more voices leads to better decisions and stronger communities.

Not exact matches

Any immigration reform should involve integrating this population fully into American civic life.

The «theopolitical» realism of the prophets led them to reject any merely symbolic fulfillment of the divine commission, to fight the division of community life into a «religious» realm of myth and cult and a «political» realm of civic and economic laws.

It also spoke powerfully to the transformation of Roman civic life, for Christians decided that they were unwilling to pay the cultural price of admission into the global economy at the time.

Christians rightly enter into public life, seeking to leaven our laws with the wisdom of Scripture and church tradition, not asserting claims on the basis of church authority, but arguing for them in the give - and - take of civic discourse.

If it is ever to be brought into being in the real world, my basic democracy would, of course, require a fleshed - out superstructure in which real humans could live together — arguing as well as deliberating, competing as well as deciding, united and distinguished by something beyond their shared conviction that equality, freedom, and civic dignity are essential to collective self - government by citizens.

Over the course of his writing life, Augustine combined a number of elements from his fragmented culture — Neoplatonic philosophy, Roman civic morality, the heritage of the great Roman poets, Manichaeism — with his dominant but open - ended Christian faith, into a new synthesis.

But they do bring into play an important element, heretofore lacking in the civic life of Latin America.

Days after rolling out a $ 20 million plan to recruit more young women into city agencies and civic life, the speaker appeared on the Brian Lehrer show to lament underrepresentation of her gender in government.

«Today we are breathing new life into the Beacon program in 67 high - need communities to boost student's learning outside the classroom, build healthier neighborhoods, and connect youth and adults to learning opportunities ranging from career preparation and civic engagement to tutoring and tenant advocacy.»

The ideas that activate it are effectively presented, the detail of real school life (like how to fit action civics into a school structure of 45 - minute classes — action civics demands much more) vividly brought to life.

In the 1800s, Horace Mann and others successfully argued that the public schools could assimilate immigrants into the norms of American civic life.

While the core academic subjects are still very important, themes of global awareness, economic and civic literacy, and life skills need to be incorporated into curricula.

Such challenges will require students to engage in the civic and developmental lives of their communities, faculty to continue to expand the domains of intellectual knowledge, and administrative vision and planning in partnership with faculty to lead the university into tomorrow.

If you live in the city, buy one of those tiny gassers, or maybe and Leaf if you have convenient hookup and decent utility rates, or maybe a civic / corolla / prius or small subaru if your into that kind of thing.

Comprised of paper, commercial packaging and the stuff of everyday life, his «extreme maquettes» transform these materials into fantastic visions that encompass civic buildings, public monuments and private pavilions.

So museums are morphing into new shapes to suit their multifaceted roles as scholarly redoubts and singles bars, civic centers and catering halls, learning centers and living rooms, pilgrimage sites and places offering quiet contemplation and the occasional transcendent experience.

In his sculptural installations, Handforth often transplants familiar objects found in civic infrastructure — such as municipal signs, motor scooters, hydrants, street lamps, wheels, and traffic cones — into unfamiliar surroundings and transforms them, by reworking or deforming their structures and configurations, in order to reveal something new about the ways in which these objects function in our everyday lives.

Information Technology Making a Difference in Children's Lives: An Issue Brief for Leaders for Children KirkHart, Rothschuh, & Kattlove (2008) Encourages the incorporation of information and communications technology into public programs serving children by highlighting research and case studies showing how digital tools and applications can improve children's education, health, employment, and civic opportunities.