Sentences with phrase «of public discourse about»

If you are wondering whether [the «slowdown»] is meaningful in terms of the public discourse about climate change, I would say the answer is no.

A second focus of public discourse about teacher education relevant to literacy teacher preparation stems from our own debates about beginning reading instruction.

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In recent months, as the 2016 election campaigns have gathered momentum, concern about the long - term effects of the buyback craze has crept into public discourse and caught the attention of politicians.

«Until we get better information into the public discourse about how these platforms are shaping the information environments that they control, we are sort of talking about policy options in the dark.»

As bankers, we are concerned about growth and returns - regulators about safety and soundness - central bankers with the competing interests of systemic risk and economic growth - and politicians have to deal with significant public discourse.

When Jews and Christians have something in common to say to the world, especially when that message is not one that simply promotes some issue of immediate benefit to the communities themselves, secularist stereotypes about the necessarily antagonistic character of religious public discourse fall by the wayside.

In my role as a «public Christian» who leads a church and who values spirited discourse about the issues of our time, I want to nurture environments where people can...

Arkes remains a convinced incrementalist in abortion politics: he recounts the battle over partial - birth abortion (still ongoing) as a «modest first step» away from the jurisprudence of Roe; in a similar vein he has hopes that the Born - Alive Act (now signed into law) might help to revive reasoned public discourse about the true character of abortion.

In my role as a «public Christian» who leads a church and who values spirited discourse about the issues of our time, I want to nurture environments where people can openly wrestle with their beliefs — but without the fear of being caricatured, labeled or demonized.

They ask congregations to develop teens» capacities for «serious, articulate, confident, personal and congregational faith» in contrast to the neutral discourse about religion of the pluralistic public sphere or the strident religious speech of those who cause offense.

Debates can get pretty heated these days about the dangers of sacrificing the «thick» texture of Christian discourse for the alleged benefits of a «thin» ethical contribution to the larger public arena.

The first three Gospels — Matthew, Mark and Luke — record a large discourse of Jesus at the end of his public ministry about the signs of the end of the present age and the coming of the Son of Man.

By late 1997, public discourse about the Net was so deeply anchored in Gutenbergian mythology that skeptics of the digital revolution were sometimes dismissed without a reasonable hearing.

What I find disappointing about many studies of public rhetoric is (a) their tendency to focus only on content, rather than the form or structure of discourse, (b) their tendency to thematize this content, and (c) their tendency to regard these themes as reflections, or reinforcements, of collective values — which apparently lie hidden somewhere in the subjectivity of the collective conscience.

If sports have lately served as a staging ground for national discourse about concussions, domestic violence, child abuse, gay rights and racial sensitivity, it's because we have so few live, public spectacles around which discussion of any kind can take place.

The discourses describing consumer experiences of maternity care in public and private hospitals: «next please, feeling depersonalised in the queue»; «feeling vulnerable in the care of a parade of strangers»; «expected to place blind trust in those who know nothing about me and still feel safe» captures the consumer experience of a fragmented maternity service care and subsequent distress associated with finding themselves in territory they never dreamed possible [45].

Public discourse and Politics in the 24 years of the 4th Republic of Ghana have all been about partisan adversarial posturing.

How long will it take the traditional mediators of our public discourse to notice that we care about a lot more issues than they seem to realize?

The Second Deputy Speaker is an exceptionally patriotic public figure, highly respected by Ghanaians and non-Ghanaians alike.Hardly will one speak about Parliament, the legislative arm of government across Africa without the mention of Alban Bagbin by a participant in the discourse.

We must demand a higher standard of factual accuracy in public political discourse, because, ultimately, factual accuracy in politics is about more than just facts.

The focus of the public debate around the 2011 education white paper was on fees and access: if we are to use the market discourse then it was about the demand side of the brave new education market.

My opinion is that these letters might shape public discourse and opinion about the candidacy of President Buhari in the 2019 election if he decides to re-contest.

If you talk about public discourse right now, thirty years after, the things people are talking about are true federalism and devolution of powers and state supremacy, there are things that he had actually answered to, but people were not able to put the questions together and also to process it because of the way that Nigeria had being divided into craters and valleys.

Nowadays, we tend to have slightly more rational views about dreams, but their significance and meaning remain a subject of debate in both science and public discourse.

The AAAS training also helped Ernst start a Twitter account (@ernstkc)(«I used to think it was a forum to just share trivial personal details about your day, but I have been impressed by the level of scientific discourse that goes on in the Twittersphere»), publish an op - ed on public health in the border region, and embrace the wide range of ways scientists can engage with the public.

According to Michael Nees, assistant professor of psychology at Lafayette College, «A lot of the public discourse to date about the capabilities of vehicle automation has been based on unrealistic expectations about the role of the human operator.»

There is a much more complicated set of issues concerning how Iraq fits into global strategies, but there is no time for a public discourse about those larger issues.

Because our immune response to its content had been repressed through our inability to engage in constructive public discourse about issues of race relations and police brutality.

Frustrated by this apparent lack of impact, she is turning her attention to a different tactic for bending that epidemic curve downward: reducing stigma through expanding public discourse about STIs.

Milloy tries to set himself up as a source of information about what is good science, and in trying to put global warming in the same class as copper bracelets, crystals and pyramids he is doing a great disservice to public discourse.

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There's been lots of talk about the underrepresentation of women and people of color as directors in the entertainment industry as a whole (see the NYT Sunday cover magazine issue, the Forbes article, the Variety article about the 7 % statistic, Jennifer Lawrence speaking out, etc) and specifically about the underrepresentation of women in the major categories at the Oscars but there is no public discourse about this also being a pervasive problem in the documentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras) and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best Documentary Feature category.

But considering the centrality of revenge to our culture (if we have a public discourse, I suppose this is it), I can't really say that I'm proud or happy about my waning interest.

His freshman effort was a story of tragedy and triumph — and one that brought about immense public, private, and academic discourse on the state of America, as experienced by its second - class citizens.

«Our current public discourse about children and filmed entertainment — the debates about the proper doling out of» screen time» at different ages, etc. — starts from the assumption that they naturally occupy this larval position, and that it's our job as — the adult insects?

«While negative views of Islam and Muslims dominate public discourse, surveys show that most Americans know little or nothing about the beliefs of Islam, and a majority have never even met a Muslim.

And the core of democratic leadership, we learned once again, is public discourse that makes clear the principles for which we act and the facts that guide our judgment about what we must do together.

Claims about all of these questions have arisen in public discourse.

«If we are attentive to the broader assault on public education by the forces of neoliberalism,» said Madeloni, «we have to critique Darling - Hammond at the very least for naïveté about these forces when she allows herself and her work to be taken up by them, when she allows the discourses they use to bash teacher education to become part of her rationales.»

By analyzing the discourse employed by politicians, lobbyists, think tanks, and special interest groups, the authors uncover the hidden assumptions that often underlie popular statements about school reform, and demonstrate how misinformation or half - truths have been used to reshape public education in ways that serve the interests of private enterprise.

We concluded our conversation, and then, in a private moment, she stated simply and eloquently what seems so difficult to say in the midst of the current politically correct public discourse about school reform: «If we claim our goal is to educated all children, we had better mean all children — not all children except the gifted.»

Horace Mann, often considered the father of modern public education, offered a powerful rejoinder of what is missing from today's discourse about public education: «Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.»

Retaining an explicit emphasis in the new standards on including «opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society» (Hicks et al., 2014, Table 1) would open the door to consideration of a set of issues that every future teacher ought to be thinking about, for example, the power relationships enacted online as manifest through sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia; the quality of the discourse and information that circulates there and the effects of rumor on reputation; notions of public and private in a digital age; cyber bullying and suicide; copyright and plagiarism; ethics and professional responsibilities related to social media; and a host of other topics and questions that a critical media literacy approach could raise regarding technology and citizenship education.

Whenever the obligatory «Next Steps» portion of a convening or meeting commenced, people lamented the fact that real - life stories about people trying to create and sustain integration were simply «not out there» in the public discourse.

For the 2017 - 18 academic year, the Ethics Center will explore the theme of freedom of speech and civil discourse through public events, the work of a team of undergraduate fellows, and the provision of educational materials about key, contested ethical issues.

Public discourse about education explores a range of topics, three of which are of direct concern to those of us in literacy education: (a) teacher preparation in general, (b) early literacy instruction, and (c) teaching diverse youngsters.

MIPFS organizes grassroots lobbying efforts and direct lobbying of state policymakers on education issues; it also works to help parents form local organizations to support their schools and to change the current public discourse about public schools through education efforts.

A third topic has received less direct attention in public discourse, but arises indirectly in discussions about the increasing diversity of our student population, and continued lack of diversity within the teaching force.