Sentences with phrase «of civic purpose»

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Depending on the scope and purpose of the research, happiness is often measured using objective indicators (data on crime, income, civic engagement and health) and subjective methods, such as asking people how frequently they experience positive and negative emotions.

As the years went on, Richard seemed to grow ever more knowledgeable, poised, intellectually many - sided, and well informed about the vast array of conflicts, arguments, clashing ambitions, and hidden purposes that mark our national civic life.

For instance, citizens often act together through diverse associations, contexts, activities, and civic relationships in order to achieve their social ends and purposes independently of the state.

Hotairace, by performing civic good works the satisfaction you feel is your conscience, proof of your soul, and it is telling you that you have more value and purpose than a random collection of atoms.

From civic faith to the practice of transformation: With their churches no longer part of the religious establishment, and with the country increasingly diverse culturally and pluralistic religiously, mainline leaders have had to ask bottom - line questions — questions about purpose, not profit.

Meetup.com helps interest groups formed on the Web to get together in person — and a remarkable number of groups do so for civic purposes.

The John Dewey Award echoes the teachings of its namesake reflecting a civic purpose that aims to reform the education landscape,» said Councilmember Jackson.

«The purpose of the bill is to empower people to hold themselves accountable as voters,» Torres said in a statement, «and to get them to think of voting not as a right but as a civic obligation.»

Indeed, given the heterogeneity of American higher education, its civic purposes must be understood as requiring different responses from differently situated institutions.

In «Tug of War» (Research, Fall 2003), James B. Murphy argues that «the attempt to inculcate civic values in our schools is at best ineffective and often undermines the intrinsic moral purpose of schooling.»

The event assembled community planners, civic leaders, environmentalists, architects, museum curators, and educators, who covered topics such as the purpose and importance of design and how it permeates the way we think and live.

The purpose of this grant is to build a community of scholars, based at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) but reaching out across the broader Harvard community, that will support the development of a highly select group of Early Career Scholars, stimulate significant work in the field of civic learning and action, and establish a major site for developing and disseminating empirical and theoretical work in these areas to the worldwide research community.

Is the formula for making diversity a point of pride and strength embedded within shared civic traditions and common purpose?

Once they're comfortable with the way that one thinking routine has worked in their classroom, they can branch out and focus on different kinds of inquiry, like Here Now / There Then, which could be used in a civics class to help students understand how past perspectives change over time; or Parts, Purpose, Complexities, which encourages observation and understanding of art objects or mechanical systems.

Once we see that the conscientious pursuit of knowledge is the inherent moral purpose of schooling, we will not be surprised by the absence of any agreement about which civic virtues ought to be taught in schools.

My view, briefly stated, is that the attempt to inculcate civic values in our schools is at best ineffective and often undermines the intrinsic moral purpose of schooling.

Learning Exchanges catalyze individuals and teams to re-imagine how schools and communities can fully engage collective power for the benefit of children, youth, and families by reclaiming the purposes of education as academic, social - emotional, and civic; uniting the power of place and wisdom of local people; redefining professional learning as a hopeful process that engages the heart, mind, & spirit; and taking actions to eliminate inequity and injustice in schools and communities.

Teacher educators must explore with preservice teachers how digital technologies shape and are shaped by education and examine the deeper theoretical and pragmatic understanding of the core purpose of social studies to prepare civic life.

The vision of Lowcountry Leadership Charter School is to develop an intrinsic desire and purpose within our students, that will nurture confidence for authentic leadership opportunities to investigate, collaborate, and resolve issues of inquiry, involving all academic disciplines and extracurricular and athletic activities, within an atmosphere of encouragement steeped in high expectations and natural rewards, thereby yielding healthy, well - rounded, moral, accountable, and compassionate advocates of human rights, national resources, independent means, and civic responsibility.

The purpose of this funding is to focus on underrepresented and under - resourced communities to educate students about civic engagement, public speaking, and communication skills through teacher and community member training and volunteer student mentoring of other students.

Utilizing a social design approach in which participating teachers and the researcher co-construct student learning cycles focused on the analysis, design, and sharing of digital political narratives, the study will highlight the literacy aspects of participatory politics and its implications for re-imagining the nature and purpose of civic expression.

As a service to the community and in accordance with law, the Board of Education may allow community groups to use district facilities for educational, recreational, social, civic, philanthropic and other similar purposes when the facilities are not being used by the district or district - sponsored groups.

Damon cites the teaching of the civil rights movement as an opportunity to teach students to be citizens who think critically about their nation but who also have a civic purpose.

Civics for All, featured in the April 2012 edition of Educational Leadership magazine, proposes that citizenship education is a fundamental student right that is central to our schools» purpose.

The purposes of the Commission on Civics Education include the education of students on the importance of citizen involvement in a representative democracy, the promotion of the study of state and local government among the commonwealth's citizenry, and the enhancement of communication and collaboration among organizations in the commonwealth that conduct civics education proCivics Education include the education of students on the importance of citizen involvement in a representative democracy, the promotion of the study of state and local government among the commonwealth's citizenry, and the enhancement of communication and collaboration among organizations in the commonwealth that conduct civics education procivics education programs.

More than half of the students said they still rely on word of mouth from their friends to learn about new products or positive reviews of brands, and more than 70 % of the students said they were more likely to buy a product from a company that supports charity, demonstrating the civic - mindedness and greater purpose of these potential leaders.

«The term «pro bono» refers to activities of the firm undertaken normally without expectation of fee and not in the course of ordinary commercial practice and consisting of (i) the delivery of legal services to persons of limited means or to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, and educational organizations in matters which are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means; (ii) the provision of legal assistance to individuals, groups, or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties, or public rights; and (iii) the provision of legal assistance to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, or educational organizations in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes, where the payment of standard legal fees would significantly deplete the organization's economic resources or would be otherwise inappropriate.»

The purpose of this two - wave longitudinal study was to analyze reciprocal associations between identity styles (i.e., socio - cognitive strategies that individuals adopt in processing, structuring, utilizing, and revising self - relevant information) and civic engagement in adolescence.

The purpose of this online nationwide survey study is to understand how different types of media (i.e. social, technological, televised) impact young people's sense of social identities, including racial / ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, political attitudes, and civic engagement.

Italian stone serves a variety of purposes ranging from private to civic, but delivers a message of grandeur and elegance to retail settings in particular.