Sentences with phrase «learn social constructs»

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As the reform movements sweeping through Eastern Europe are learning, denunciation of evil and corruption is a necessary first step toward social change, but constructing new institutional arrangements is by far the more arduous task.

But there is also a lesson to be learnt about the character of an alternative construct which, quite clearly, defined valid social objectives and gained appreciable results, but which also succumbed to its own internal inflexibility and fell a victim to its own mistakes.

As a woman in a man's industry, I have learned so much about myself over the past two years... and I have learned far more about men, and the social constructs that older men grew up with and continue to blindly follow.

Learning comes about through transactions among students and between faculty and students, in a social setting, as they construct a knowledge base.»

For example, in the «Bridges» capstone (PDF), students learn about the mathematical and engineering concepts necessary to construct bridges, as well as the symbolic meaning of bridges in literature, history, and social studies.

Classrooms are more than physical spaces; they're social constructs for enabling collective learning.

Some came from a Science background, some from an Arts background, whilst others chose the course due to a desire to develop a polymath perspective on knowledge and the integration of Key Learning Areas, away from the social constructs of knowledge we too often silo.

That relationship continues to be the moral, social, and cognitive centerpiece for teaching and learning to occur and can not be replaced by machines, however cleverly constructed.

We can't learn if we can't admit what we don't know, and our social expectation that everyone «know» immediately is forcing us into misinformed, quickly - constructed claims that, once said, must continue to be defended, on the threat of being discredited altogether.

«In this timely, engaging, and needed book, Steele and Cohn - Vargas describe creative and captivating ways in which teachers can construct identity safe classrooms in which students from diverse racial, social, economic, and linguistic groups can learn and flourish.

Using a practice - based focus and a researcher lens, the contributors consider the ways in which environments for children enhance or diminish educational experiences, how social constructs about what is good for children influence environmental design, and what practitioners can do in their own work when creating learning environments for young children.

«In this timely, engaging, and needed book, Steele and Cohn - Vargas describe creative and captivating ways in which teachers can construct identity safe classrooms where students from diverse racial, social, economic, and linguistic groups can learn and flourish.»

Although constructivism has been defined many different ways, Applefield, Huber, and Moallem (2001), in their review of constructivist literature, found the following four central characteristics of constructivist learning: (a) learners construct their own learning; (b) the dependence of new learning on student's existing understanding; (c) the critical role of social interaction and; (d) the necessity of authentic learning tasks for meaningful learning (p. 38).

This one - hour webinar is an introduction for nonprofits that are curious about learning more about additional social emotional learning constructs including emotional competence, perseverance, grit, self - control and future orientation.

Constructed responses are meant to promote high - quality student assignments that develop reading, writing, and thinking skills in the context of learning science, history, English, social studies, and other subjects.

Ninth - grade students identified as good and poor readers were randomly assigned to learn social studies content either with the typical textbook lessons or lessons constructed around the Frayer Model steps (Peters, 1974 — 1975).

The theory and practice of social constructivism, which is based on the idea that knowledge is actively constructed by learners in supportive learning environments

Carefully constructed group learning activities can foster students» academic and social growth and help close the achievement gap.

As students learn to use technology tools to build representations of a social world's characteristics, they generate reflective critical thought through their analysis and critique of the identities, relationships, and values constructed by the cultural practices and discourses in that social world.

In college, Michael will continue to grow his social bookmarking account to construct his own archive of learning resources.

Learning about how the Devil was «constructed» over time and how his character, or our understanding of him, has evolved in relation to social and intellectual changes over the centuries.

This needs - based exploration of aggressive behaviour in a middle school has highlighted a number of important issues that need to be taken into consideration in efforts to construct a pathway to a healthier school environment in which students can explore risk - taking in learning, experience social interdependence, and, hopefully, meet their developmental needs for belonging, autonomy, and competence.

Constructs like emotional intelligence, emotional self - regulation, emotional well - being and emotional social learning are being bandied about like never before.