Sentences with phrase «leading scholars focus»

In this landmark study, leading scholars focus on how particular objects tell the history of life under British rule.

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The cumulative weight of Bultmann's prodigious career, focused into the concrete programme of demythologizing, burst like a meteor into the void caused by the attrition of the Nazi ideology, the war and post-war collapse, and the passing of such leading New Testament scholars as Lietzmann, Büchsel, Behm, von Soden, Lohmeyer, Kittel, Dibelius, and Schniewind.

Throughout her career, Olivia has worked to prepare scholars to lead, serve and change the world, focusing on creating intercultural understanding and advocacy through education.

Although numerous studies have examined the potentially detrimental effects of restrictive feeding practices on children, the current study was novel in that it focused on the interplay of the parent's emotions with their controlling the child's food intake, said lead author Jaclyn A. Saltzman, a doctoral researcher in human development and family studies and scholar in the Illinois Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Program.

«Although the initial research focused on biology classes, the DART method can be applied in almost any teaching situation,» said Melinda Owens, postdoctoral scholar and lecturer at SF State, one of three lead authors on the paper.

Over the course of his 25 - year career, Mattox has: * written numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and other major publications; * spoken at educational conferences in Geneva, Prague, Rome, and Vatican City; * led writing workshops at Duke, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, and other major universities; * served as a speechwriter for several Members of Congress in Washington, D.C.; * directed a documentary film and a number of other media projects, including a public service ad campaign that ran in Rolling Stone; and * spearheaded a number of quantitative and qualitative research projects, working closely with polling firms, focus group organizers, and «think tank» scholars.

She supports three groups of teacher scholars: the teachers at Anna Yates Elementary in Emery Unified who are focusing on academic discussion across all grades and disciplines, TK - 8; a cross-district team of Berkeley Unified music teachers investigating how to support students of color in pursuing musical education beyond the elementary years; and a group of Early Childhood Education Teacher Leaders in Berkeley Unified who are leading their colleagues in Professional Learning Communities with a focus on Social and Emotional Development.

In addition, Malone, who also chairs the Educational Change Special Interest Group, led an annual meeting of international scholars focused on understanding many aspects of educational change, including large - scale reform, school - initiated change, school improvement, and classroom - level change.

CCS believes that a well - connected community is an essential part of successful learning for scholars and their families and continues to organize community - focused events in order to play a leading role in Fresno's public school community.

He has served as lead administrator for numerous charter schools and continues to support scholar achievement in his new role as CEO of EdVantage Education Group, a newly formed nonprofit organization, focused on supporting and improving charter schools through a partnership model of collaboration.

Edited by the exhibitions's co-curators Frances Morris and Tiffany Bell, and with essays by leading scholars that give a context for Martin's work — her life, relationship with other artists, the influence of South - Asian philosophy — alongside focused shorter pieces on particular paintings, this beautifully designed volume is the definitive publication on her oeuvre.

Focusing entirely on Judd's multicolored works, this handsome book features essays by leading scholars that illuminate this body of work and examine its relationship to his oeuvre as a whole.

Curated by the world's leading scholars, the exhibition focuses on his primary achievements — the innovative techniques and artistry he developed to achieve original and spectacular effects in glass.

An essay that presents new research on the sculptor's encounters with London, written by leading Rosso scholar Sharon Hecker, will be included in the exhibition catalogue, along with the conversation between Cragg and Peyton - Jones focusing on the unique qualities of this pioneering artist.

The afternoon symposium, «Allies, Enemies, Citizens: Figuring Asianness in World War II America,» will focus on the visual representation of Asianness and Asian - Americanness in the United States during World War II, featuring presentations by leading scholars in the field, including Gordon H. Chang, Professor, Department of History, and Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities, Stanford University; Amy Lyford, Professor of Art History, Occidental College; ShiPu Wang, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, UC Merced; and K. Scott Wong, James Phinney Baxter III Professor of History and Public Affairs, Williams College.

Italian architect Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, partner at OMA working on preservation, scenography and curation, is both leading OMA Urban Studies, as well as the team of creative mediators, which includes the Swiss contemporary art curator Mirjam Varadinis, who works in Kunsthaus Zurich and was co-curator of TRACK, a large scale city - wide international exhibition in the tradition of «Chambres d'amis» in Ghent, Belgium; Spanish architect, artist and scholar based in New York and Madrid, Andrés Jaque, the founder of the Office of Political Innovation, working on the intersection of research, politics and design; and Dutch filmmaker and journalist Bregtje van der Haak, who has been directing international documentaries and transmedia projects on long - term social change with a special focus on urbanisation and technological culture.

The Harvard Project's research focuses on policy architecture, key design elements, and institutional dimensions of international and domestic climate change policy — and draws upon leading scholars and policy practitioners from around the world (including Argentina, Australia, China, Europe, India, Japan, and the United States).

Scholars of the discipline expanded from dissecting the practice of teaching legal writing and began to focus on law as rhetoric.11 Progressively, the teaching of legal argument had led to curiosity about rhetorical devices and narrative techniques.12 The importance of plain or accessible language became a key component of effective communication.13 The intersection of legal writing and storytelling emerged as an important area of the scholarly discourse.14 The discipline's character developed and created new and emerging sub-characters within the story.