Sentences with phrase «of academic exercises»

But even though Day for Night has its share of politically charged works — with American artists like Nari Ward, Dash Snow, Matthew Day Jackson, Jamal Cyrus, Robert A. Pruitt, and Dawolu Jabari Anderson offering overt criticism of nationalism, the war on terror, manifest destiny, and racism — a general preoccupation with art history undermines the exhibition's transgressive potential, rendering it a series of academic exercises.

Standing explicitly between academy, church and society, those in pastoral theology know intimately the limits of academic exercises, and they know the limits of knowledge apart from context.

«You have to try to be very specific about your project outcome and its implication for design,» says Murphy, «Otherwise you may end up doing more of an academic exercise instead of leading to a real product, which is what a company is looking for.»

[And if you Worship The Spreadsheet (hypnotise yourself into believing you're dealing just with figures, not money), and Forget Your Purchase Price (never include»em in your spreadsheet... you'll lose track averaging into everything anyway), it becomes even more of an academic exercise].

Invested in architectural ornament, which they treat as the bearer of social relations turned into form, the videos are intriguing, but they give off the strange air of an academic exercise.

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After all, it's not an academic exercise; there's a bonus check for each employee at the end of every four - week game that meets profitability guidelines.

Khan Academy, based in Mountain View, is known for its free web - based library of instructional videos and academic exercises.

The print edition of July's Vanity Fair doesn't hit newsstands until Tuesday, June 9, so until then, any speculation about the effect of the Internet response on sales is a purely academic exercise.

It's an interesting exercise to see how many of the analyses were written by people thousands of kilometres from India, and how many quote the same Carleton University academic, Vivek Dehejia.

It's one thing to go through the academic exercise of researching value, where the analysis is done over very long periods of time, and a completely different thing to use Valuation to invest in stocks every day.

As some note, this becomes a purely academic exercise in correlation, as the Canadian economy recently experienced consecutive quarters of contraction (the introductory economics textbook definition of a recession), meaning the arrows are pointing in the same direction as that of the price of oil.

«Most of my classmates just treated all this as an academic exercise, and they kept on living as they had before.

Likewise, academic conferences featuring panels of Elvis impersonators, or the owners of sex boutiques, are not meant to add to our knowledge of rock or country music, or to make us more erotically proficient — equally unnecessary exercises.

I had not come from a church background, and had little to no understanding of theology as a spiritual exercise or an academic discipline.

If that assumption is not shared, this discussion is, in the dismissive sense of the term, no more than an academic exercise.

The full exercise of this right requires that trustees and administrators protect teachers and students against pressures from outside in favor of certain methods and conclusions of inquiry, and that support for teaching and research be kept as free as possible from exerting a controlling influence on academic pursuits.

Often the counseling relationship extends beyond academic matters, and the teacher exercises a sort of «pastoral» function.

Given that we create the gods and assign to them the personalities we choose, the question of where does one god stop and another god start is a purely academic exercise.

This little academic exercise should help us see that a good deal of talk about education as primarily a «bringing out» of latent knowledge, with consequences for the entire process of instruction, is beside the point.

It may be that Brown can be so sanguine about overcoming the fragmenting effects of disciplinary diversity because the national scholarly organizations that institutionalize the various academic guilds today exercised less political power in the 1930s over scholars» standing with peers, mobility from school to school, and promotion to tenure.

This was not an exercise in academic theology, but a case of theologians addressing themselves to the worldly fact that religious beliefs had not kept pace with the radical transformation of society by science and the rest of modern culture.

Indeed, many of the contemporary activists and academics most concerned about the marginalization of religion in American public life frame their critiques as issues of free exercise and not establishment.

After years of helping children with behavioral and social challenges, the experts at Brain Balance Achievement Centers have developed a cutting - edge (and drug - free) program combining sensory motor stimulation, academic exercises, and nutrition to correct brain imbalance and improve achievement.

-- Discover what eurythmy reveals about human development — Work your way through the development of the child by means of exercises appropriate to each developmental phase — See how the Waldorf curriculum comes to life through movement and gesture — Learn about the interplay between eurythmy and academic experiences — Acquire the language and understanding to talk about eurythmy to Waldorf parents in a valuable way — Work, play, laugh, and have fun!

This set of people seemed to have concluded that contesting against him within APC is an academic exercise that leads to a redundant outcome.

Despite government assurances that «no grammar school will lose its right to select pupils by academic ability as a result of converting to become an academy,» the National Grammar Schools Association has urged schools to «exercise extreme caution» before making the change.

«The Purple Book isn't an academic exercise,» says one of the organisers.

«The applicant's (Fayose's) application is thus, a pure waste of time and an academic exercise, which is based on nothing.»

This may sound like an academic or a laboratory exercise, but for some businessmen, utility regulators, wildlife agencies and others, tinkering with the meaning of «normal» can mean big changes.

Consequently, students of engineering and sciences are educated in the absence of traditionally «academic» exercises, and ultimately, they have few connections to society in general.

As documented in Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated academic or unrelated matters.

«I enjoyed publishing papers, and I enjoyed scientific questions and academic exercises, but at the end of the day, it kind of felt like an exercise.»

But this first creepy communiqué and the emails and oral interactions that follow are not expressions of genuine affection or regard, but subtle exercises of the power held by a senior academic figure over a subordinate dependent on him for any hope of career advancement.

Academic: includes lectures by international leaders in the different fields of science diplomacy (energy, environment, climate, water, global health, nuclear nonproliferation, space, etc.), exclusive online learning tools, interactive case studies, and experiential learning through role - playing exercises and simulations.

The thought control exercised by academic experts is not so vulnerable; we should not think we are now free of intellectual distortions based on «science».

Both studies involved a values affirmation exercise aimed at diminishing the threat of negative stereotypes related to African American students» academic abilities.

In short, it is evident that hypercompetition is inconsistent with «affording the prepared mind complete freedom for the exercise of initiative,» which Vannevar Bush, who devised our system of academic research funding in the 1940s, considered to be of «supreme importance.»

Studies have found that simple confidence - boosting exercises can help shrink academic achievement gaps for some of those stereotyped.

For patients in rehabilitation after a stroke, walking on an underwater treadmill produces better measures of exercise performance compared to conventional treadmill walking, reports a study in the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, the official journal of the Association of Academic Physiatrists.

«Before it became clear that the technical issues could be addressed, these were academic exercises,» says Peter Stone, a computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin.

Hundreds of Turkish academics face prison terms and expulsion from their universities for exercising their freedom of speech.

As a result of my academic training and my laboratory data, I've learned how to use food timing to maximize recovery after exercise.

Marion, exercising an evolutionary maternal reflex, repeatedly criticizes her daughter about everything from her academic talents — or lack thereof — to her indulgent use of not one, but two bath towels, an insignificant act that receives a much more vociferous reaction than, say, when Lady Bird hints that she is considering having sex for the first time.

This includes a host of physical training exercises, military drill practice, public speaking and gaining vital academic qualifications.

So in addition to the methods already discussed, we reinforce new vocabulary knowledge in other ways, such as regular classroom games, use of Vine and Instagram to create definitions of the words (we show an example below, and you can see more here), and having students use online academic vocabulary exercises (our favorites are Vocabulary Exercises For The Academic Word List, The Academic Word List at UoP and English academic vocabulary exercises (our favorites are Vocabulary Exercises For The Academic Word List, The Academic Word List at UoP and Englishexercises (our favorites are Vocabulary Exercises For The Academic Word List, The Academic Word List at UoP and EnglishExercises For The Academic Word List, The Academic Word List at UoP and English Academic Word List, The Academic Word List at UoP and English Academic Word List at UoP and English Online).

32 Vigorous exercise can lead to academic gains; many kids drinking alcohol by sixth grade, study shows; students read about bays and keep track of miles as they run across America.»

«It gives them a sense of purpose, rather than seeming like just another academic exercise,» says Dan Schmit, creator and host of the online community KidCast: Podcasting in the Classroom.

There's a perception within certain academic circles that adherence to tradition is what makes the institution of education great, and ideological cross-pollination between high - tech startups and higher education is an exercise in futility, but is this based on experience or assumption?

-- attitude about physical exercise persists despite the evidence that, as the NCSL reports, «Thirty minutes of active physical activity during the school day can help control weight, build healthy bones, muscles, and joints, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, enhance feelings of well - being, and may even improve academic performance.»

Research by the universities of Strathclyde and Dundee on the positive impact that exercise can have on academic achievement amongst teenagers offers another reason to prioritise physical activity for school children.