Sentences with phrase «knowledge about global issues»

Throughout his career, Robert Rauschenberg used his platform as an artist to increase knowledge about global issues and to raise money for many causes and organizations.

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Last week in Melbourne, Professor Glover and colleagues launched a new organisation, «The Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health,» which aims to foster more knowledge about these issues, and to generate more resources to tackle them, around the world.

To be honest, I had little knowledge about global water issues and how it disproportionately impacts women, who have less time for school or work due to hours spent collecting clean water from miles away for their families.

This refers to the ability to combine knowledge about the world with critical reasoning whenever people form their own opinions about a global issue.

In this way, we approach the teaching - learning process from the adjacent dialectic in the multidisciplinary issues that Global Education enables us to build and diffusion of the knowledge, which causes cognitive conflicts between the different educational actors and, consequently, meaningful and pragmatic learning about the various problems of the globalized world of the XXI century.

While refutation texts have been widely used to correct misconceptions about controversial science issues (e.g., global warming, GMOs), to our knowledge they have never been tested to correct misconceptions about policy.

Global warming has become a huge environmental issue; therefore it has become indispensable to increase awareness and knowledge about it among general public all over the world.

But it does mean that, unlike many people who pontificate about global warming (Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sheryl Crow), he has authentic, firsthand knowledge of the scientific issues under discussion.

If that were true, on an issue such as global warming, about which scientists have a great deal of consensus, we'd expect citizens to come to agreement as their knowledge of the issue increases.

But it should be emphasized that, although his points on the anti-intellectualism of creation science and lousy civics knowledge are sound, when he surrounds that with misdirection and literally unsupportable talking points about the global warming issue, his message looks less like one of genuine concern and more like a subtle excuse to validate global warming propaganda.

With all of the very real concerns about the future of energy usage on the planet, Genesis Energy, an energy supplier and retailer in New Zealand has come up with a terrific way of helping kids develop a strong basis on which to develop future knowledge about the issues surrounding global energy usage without overwhelming them with every sophisticated detail... Essentially, they've come up with a game not too unlike SimCity, where kids get to develop their own city in a game that features 150 «turns»; each of which is a chance to make a wide array of decisions about the usage of energy, natural resources, and ultimately the future of the population within it.