Sentences with phrase «narrow academic interest»
Beyond this narrow academic interest, however, intellectuals and policy - makers generally dismiss the phenomenon as marginal to the major currents of political change in South Africa.
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Instead, he presents his proposal in the terms of a labor - union manifesto: «It is long past time for faculty members to rise above narrow self - interest, give up the doctrine of academic exceptionalism, and agree to the same terms of employment as everyone else in the workforce.»
Relaxed, thoughtful and highly literate — in a recent academic article he cited Hume, Joyce and Beckett along with Nobel Prize - winning physicists Richard Feynman and Niels Bohr — McEuen is a man of wide - ranging interests who has narrowed his scientific focus to the very, very small.
Teachers are being forced to teach a narrow, academic curriculum which does not meet the interests and needs of the majority of children and young people, and which is compounded by a vicious high - stakes testing regime, which is creating a crisis in children and young people's mental health.