Sentences with phrase «of practical theory»

This presentation explores the tripartite elements of practical theory, reflective practice and weblogs as examined through a qualitative research study conducted in a secondary MAT program at a large southeastern university.

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While Szuchman and Anderson spoke with dozens of economists, theory here is subsidiary to practical application.

If you've already learned the basics, and went to get into something a bit heavier — such as exploring the theory behind coding — take advantage of MIT's free courseware site that includes classes such as Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Introduction to Programming in Java and Practical Programming in C.

While the fundamental concept of coding makes up for around 20 percent of the theory, the rest is practical.

Small Business, BIG Vision is no pie in the sky theory but the nuts and bolts practical information that every entrepreneur needs to succeed in the dog eat dog world of starting and growing a profitable business.

The book combines the best of marketing and relationship theory with real - world examples and practical advice to create a winning, inspirational package.

Its so good to know that someone out there understands the need to fill the gap between class theories nd the practical end that determines the success of start ups.

Now a full - time operations engineer at Cenovus, Pandya is a beneficiary of work - integrated learning (WIL)-- an umbrella term for co-op placements, internships and other programs that combine classroom theory with practical on - the - job experience.

The only answer which is plausible can be given by the biological theory of knowledge: in the same way as our perception carves Out of the whole physical reality only that zone which has practical importance for our organism, only those recollections which are relevant to our present situation are transmitted into our present moment.

Having established his core argument, and its foundations in natural law theory, Duddington proceeds to a series of practical discussions of the way in which Christianity can be mobilised in order to shed light on difficult contemporary political issues.

«5 Whitehead shows how this concept of a thing, a concept that grew out of practical dealing with the actualities of the world, entrenched itself in the subject - predicate structure of language and from there made its way into Aristotle's theory of the Categories.

It is as though the underlying picture of theological schooling came from engineering: we receive theories from «pure» scientific research, generalize applied theory from parts or from implications of the «pure» theory, and then devise techniques and technologies governed by the applied theory to solve well - defined practical problems.

Reflecting on his experience of attending seminary after first gaining considerable experience in the parish, one older participant wondered if maybe we're doing it backwards»; in other words, perhaps schools ought somehow to require practical experience before — or at the beginning of — formal education (such an arrangement would, of course, run counter to essentially all currently respected educational theories) For himself, he said, the practical application of what was being taught in seminary was plain in light of his experience of parish ministry.

Darwin's theory did not create the era; it provided it with the rationale that enabled it to give «full speed ahead» to the process of adaptation, accentuating the concern with practical demands and function.

In nineteenth - century philosophies elaborating the evolutionary theory it appears as an overtone of agnosticism, as in Herbert Spencer's reference to the Unknowable.5 Even in modernist theologies like that of Shailer Mathews one senses this agnostic note accompanying the formulation of its practical or functional rationale, as when he wrote,

As this is discussed theoretically (and under the guidance of the Spirit), it could be helpful for theologians to be aware that, on the practical level, these issues are linked to communication theories and technologies that have transformed organizational patterns in our day.

It is clear that this is precisely what Paul's statement is about; but because he was expressing a vision of reality that he himself was unable to spell out in a practical application to his own culture, we also have continued to stumble around in the slavery of the old law regarding relationships, catching the vision in some areas — in theory, at least — and ignoring it in others.

Practical theology has come to contain a good dose of theory of practice with very few theological ingredients.

But however this goes, it is clear that even a religiously informed practical reason must have some theory, knowledge or intuition about these needs if it is to serve the purposes of a practical theology

Generally the more «practical» side of my work has been concerned with biomedical ethics and democratic theory.

I make that unhappy admission not just because I still do not know my own mind clearly and systematically enough about four central issues of that practical theology task — contemporary social theory, ethics, ecclesiology and the history of spirituality.

If I can ever successfully think my way forward to the most complex task of all, practical theology, the same ratio will hold: the principal methodological issue will be the relationship of theory and praxis in: both personal and social terms, and the principal theological topics will be Spirit and church.

And such fretting might, further, lead us to consider how «practical» it was of the ancients to praise the supremacy of «theory.»

It is not possible in this context to develop a theory of religious experience and of its theoretical, practical and sociological expressions.

God's reality is posited rather than simply affirmed, and it is removed from the realm of theory and located in that of practical thought.

Not as a matter of theory only but of practical application, this hope is what our present distraught, endangered, and morally unstable world needs most.

Again, astronomy appears to be a «useless» subject, but has yielded a number of practical results, from the discovery of helium to the theories of the properties of gas plasma currently important in hydrogen fusion projects.

For MacIntyre, the practices necessary for training in practical reason through which we acquire the ability to act intelligibly requires the systematic growth of human potential by acquired excellence that can not help but challenge the character of modern moral practice and theory.

I think that the best Catholic independent schools in England represent a practical model that should be considered alongside the theory of this most interesting book.

The guiding principle of British philosophy has in fact been that every difference must make a difference, every theoretical difference somewhere issue in a practical difference, and that the best method of discussing points of theory is to begin by ascertaining what practical difference would result from one alternative or the other being true.

It does seem that Strauss makes a fairly big deal of not being critical of Burke's practical judgments or even of his understanding of the threat theory poses to practice.

We do not need to construct a qeneral theory of civil society in the context of contemporary political philosophy: that could lead to an endless discussion of different positions and the myriad attempts in the with the practical question of the role of Christian communities in attempts to refurbish, or newly establish, participatory democratic societies across the globe.

«People in both camps would quickly discover that some long - cherished divisions — the favorite one, for instance, between the academic and the practical, the reflective and the active, theory and practice — are confounded when you look with any care at the life of an actual congregation, and see the ways that theory is always in practice, that even the act of theorizing is an act of practice.

This vulgarly practical and relativistic theory of truth perhaps most closely approximates the current, popular sense of the word «pragmatic,» and one can find warrants for it in the writings of all the pragmatists, even including some of James».

My intent is not to canonize Parsons's theory, but to note that he undertakes the systems - thinking that Browning's view of strategic practical theology may require.

Insisting on the practical utility of philosophy, Nussbaum has often attacked the theory - driven feminism of American academia.

Concerning the conceivability of nothing, Craighead asserts that there is no logical or practical difficulty in our thinking of every contingent item of our experience becoming nonexistent and then not being replaced by anything else; in fact, he holds, the reason we can appreciate a magician's trick or the steady - state theory of cosmology is that we can indeed conceive of a rabbit or of hydrogen atoms appearing out of absolutely nothing.

McLuhan saw a hot culture cooling down by the unified field theories of physics that have their practical application in electromagnetic communications.

And he addresses the separation of wissenschaftlich theory and practical professional training by declaring both to be thoroughly theoretical and hence not separated by a difference in kind.

He then puts this theory into practice by traveling a good 100 miles out of his way into the region of Tyre and Sidon — into the heart of pagan - land — to make the arduous journey from the theoretical to the practical.

However, the former misconstrues the relation between theology and action, as though theology were theory systematized in the academy to be applied in practical cases later on; and the latter misconstrues the relevant pluralisms, as though they were alternative outward and public manifestations of a single mode of inwardness.

Carol Tauer, a philosopher at Minnesota's St. Catherine's College, has recently challenged the moral logic of this declaration, as well as of the current pastoral teachings on abortion, in an incisive and thorough analysis of the tradition of probabilism — a theory of practical decision - making that is accepted in Catholic moral teaching.

While all of this is very true in logic and in theory the event of its practical realization in any state or country is so remote in time and in probability that no practical man will let it disturb his equanimity or affect his attitude toward those who differ from him in religious faith.

One difficulty is that, without raising the ultimate question of the theory of religious liberty, Catholics in this country can agree with the practical implications of Father Murray's position on pragmatic grounds.

Apparently course work in the practical fields should be governed by some such question as this: Can these theories be applied in these contexts in ways that bring salvation to the modes of sin encountered here?

For example, the historical and theological areas may be combined into an area described as «Interpretation of Christianity» while the older «practical» field is divided into two, one dealing with «Church and Culture» (sociological, psychological, and philosophical studies of church phenomena in American culture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibilities.

The sessions went beyond theory to provide tangible and practical applications through the real life experiences, trials, and tribulations amassed through the collective hundreds of years of digital beverage marketing knowledge on - hand.

And yet, in theory at least, there appear to be a number of practical advantages to Phil Wrigley's new idea.

I think the theory of it is fine, but I think the practical result is fewer people paying their taxes — some accidentally, some intentionally — and a substantial increase in enforcement costs.

I'm mostly trying to illustrate a point: Whether we like discussing human nature or not, we are all working with a theory of human nature and that theory of human nature has practical consequences.