Sentences with phrase «less academic interests»

That's bound to be thought provoking for psychologists, but it's also of use to those of us with less academic interests too.

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To treat them as though they were less serious and less interesting than this is to misunderstand and mistreat them, as interreligious dialogue and much of the academic study of religion typically do.

I am less interested here to press my description of the particular values that inhere in academic life than I am to insist that, whatever their identity, they are built into the institution's spatial and temporal forms, its patterns of behavior, and its ideological set; and that value, both systemic and sentient, has a profound socializing effect.

«Classroom contexts where students experience autonomy, competence, and relatedness tend not only to foster more intrinsic motivation,» Deci and Ryan conclude, «but also more willing engagement in less interesting academic activities.»

Cinephiles were less and less receptive to their films, judging them to be austere if not masochistic, while academic interest in Straub / Huillet's practice — deemed to be archetypal of an outmoded «political modernist» paradigm of film theory — similarly waned.

Classroom contexts where students experience autonomy, competence, and relatedness tend not only to foster more intrinsic motivation, but also more willing engagement in less interesting academic activities.

While having less experienced teachers probably didn't help these kids» academics, their poor behavior and lack of interest in school made these teachers» jobs harder and often caused them to move on to other schools.

Alexander was reacting to that era's academic scare — Sputnik and its gremlins — and bemoaning the fact that greater emphasis on math, science, and «more homework» meant for many students «less time and energy for the fine arts, for homemaking and industrial arts, and for such special interests as dramatics, journalism, musical performance, scouting, camping, outside jobs, and general reading.»

Head teachers» leaders, while supporting languages, say this might reverse gains that have been made in keeping the interest of less - academic students.

If constituents are willing to accept less - than - perfectly - integrated schools in the interest of better serving different constituencies and drawing on teacher strengths, it will be crucial to monitor those schools for resource equity and academic quality and to provide students with frequent opportunities to interact meaningfully with students from the other learning communities.

That is a few pixels less though the figure might just be of academic interest as the display would be just as vibrant and inviting to even the most discerning of users.

When I taught young adult (YA) literature in a graduate program, my students were often less enamored by the academic background of YA lit and more interested in practical applications.

There is some real interest in this approach, mainly from academics, and there is also what I would characterize as «strategic interest,» principally from those who recognize that once the focus is on carbon taxes rather than other instruments, political debates will inevitably result in less ambitious targets or, in fact, no policy at all.

The reasons students mutilate and steal books from academic libraries are no less varied but far less interesting.

It aims to be the main stage for Bitcoin's technical and academic communities, with little room for commercial interests — and perhaps even less for the «scaling drama» that has grown to be the norm online.

Compared with the active control program, MBSR participants had significantly less anxiety, improved coping, and borderline attenuation of the salivary cortisol increase associated with the academic term.10 We were interested in expanding the program to urban public schools with significant need.

Intellectual: During early adolescence, youth are most interested in real - life experiences and authentic learning opportunities; they are often less interested in conventional academic subjects.