Sentences with phrase «of their academic discourse in»

Some of the schools I work with in Oakland, California, are aspiring to this description of academic discourse in the classroom: «Conversations in whole and small group settings are facilitated by students and consistently involve all students in academic discourse among students.

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Religious believers are likely to get further in discourse with the current generation of secular academics by 1) continually demonstrating, as Posner himself seems to intuit, that only a moral theory founded on God can actually «work,» in the sense of bridging the gap between «is» and «ought»; and 2) demonstrating the inherent self «contradictions of the moral theories advocated by the «secular liberals.»
But suppose — just suppose — that in the name of free academic discourse the uncrossable boundaries were crossed.
Despite academic pretensions of rational discourse and objective standards, mythmaking is alive and well in American colleges and universities.
Therefore those of us who sought to initiate a feminist theological paradigm shift in the early 1970s must now concentrate on changing the disciplinary discourses of academic religious scholarship and of Christian theologies.
Together with my immersion in an interdenominational and interreligious academic dialogue, this ecumenical feminist discourse was extremely significant for the articulation of my own feminist theological perspective.
Whether one considers the drearily stylized, solemnly insipid droning that so often emanates from the courts or the unmoored and turgid expositions of wearisome ideologies characteristic of more adventurous academic literature, there is very little in the discourse that merits the title of «reason.»
By 1980, however, the somewhat chastened magazine acknowledged he was not: «God is making a comeback Most intriguingly, this is happening not among theologians or ordinary believers — most of whom never accepted for a moment that he was in any serious trouble — but in the crisp, intellectual circles of academic philosophers, where the consensus had long banished the Almighty from fruitful discourse
In a word, I think most people (except, perhaps, we academics) will understand that our use of physical metaphors in moral discourse does not imply that physical health is morally normativIn a word, I think most people (except, perhaps, we academics) will understand that our use of physical metaphors in moral discourse does not imply that physical health is morally normativin moral discourse does not imply that physical health is morally normative.
Retreating to the countryside will do very little to stave off the left's increasing domination of academic discourse, which in turn has very real consequences on the way in which the public's philosophical imagination is shaped.
It is time to recognize that scholars and institutions who take the intellectual dimensions of their faith seriously can be responsible and creative participants in the highest levels of academic discourse
Adamson knows this, but admirably proceeds to outline three areas of philosophy that are often overlooked in the hustle of contemporary academic discourse: «Hellenistic philosophy» (the inheritance of Plato and Aristotle), «late antique philosophy among pagans, and ancient Christian philosophy.»
Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.
It's interesting that the Third Way, in most regards, has been driven from public and academic discourse via a combination of propaganda and intimidation.
These are often academic meetings critiquing economics from the viewpoint of sociology or anthropology, and in essence reintroducing political economy into the world of discourse.
This is, of course, not to say that these concepts are not covered elsewhere in staff development, but for academic integrity to truly function properly it needs to be part of the mainstream discourse around learning and teaching, not something that academics find out about through rules and regulations once something goes wrong.»
About Blog Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law (JIPEL) with the goal of encouraging scholarly discourse between academics, practitioners, and students interested in intellectual property and entertainment law topics.
About Blog Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law (JIPEL) with the goal of encouraging scholarly discourse between academics, practitioners, and students interested in intellectual property and entertainment law topics.
In fact, Naremore's work involves unifying this brand of cinephilia — what Jonathan Rosenbaum once referred to as «maniacal, unreasoning» cinephilia — with the critical theories and cultural studies that have dominated academic film discourse.
I'm going to focus on the development of students» academic discourse as a high - leverage instructional practice that contributes to deeper learning, one in which our urban students need particular explicit instruction.
Academic discourse encompasses the idea of dialogue, the language used, and a format that facilitates a high level of communication in the classroom.
PBL requires students to communicate their understanding of the problem, helping them develop critical thinking skills and increasing academic discourse in the classroom.
Hip - hop based education (HHBE) research started near the end of the 20th century, as scholars recognized that hip - hop could, in the words of Roderic Land and David Stovall, «engage youth in social discourse, which fosters critical thinking and academic and media literacy.»
One small way to encourage academics to step into the fray and to push back on the academic norms fueling the status quo is, I think, to try harder to recognize the value of engaging in public discourse and the scholars who do so.
The metrics, as I explained earlier, seek to capture many of the various ways in which academics contribute to public discourse.
In Kelly School, which is discussed in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learninIn Kelly School, which is discussed in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learninin the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learning.
Reinforces students» knowledge and understanding of literary discourse and provides authentic insight into how academic language works in the target language.
The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.
How can you as a leader leverage your skills through collaboration to support a culture of student - to - student academic discourse in classrooms?
Explains how the real aims of education have been lost in the current push to raise test scores through what Dr. Armstrong calls «the academic achievement discourse.».
Although past professional development in Bayside has focused on increasing the quantity of student - talk, the teachers of Bayside have struggled to provide structures promoting quality academic discourse.
Ethnographic case studies of classrooms in two gentrifying schools examine how social interactions, instructional decisions, and labeling and sorting practices relate to broader community discourses of race, class, and academic achievement.
Teachers in this study were trained using the KF that demands analysis of academic tasks for their functions — what is being discussed (field), who / how it is being discussed (tenor), and the medium through which it is discussed (mode)-- and the associated linguistic features at the levels of lexicon, syntax, and discourse.
By implementing culturally responsive teaching using the MALP ® instructional model, we can more effectively transition struggling ELs to a new and different reality, one in which they see themselves as successful learners in a learning paradigm centered on literacy, school - based ways of thinking, academic discourse, and decontextualized tasks.
They are not receiving academic second language instruction in content areas and not necessarily developing school - based ways of thinking and modes of discourse.
About Blog Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law (JIPEL) with the goal of encouraging scholarly discourse between academics, practitioners, and students interested in intellectual property and entertainment law topics.
About Blog Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law (JIPEL) with the goal of encouraging scholarly discourse between academics, practitioners, and students interested in intellectual property and entertainment law topics.
Her references could be literary and philosophical, what she said about her work was deep but different than an academic discourse, as much rooted in daily visual experience as in popular culture and in direct transmutation into paint of such experience.
On the contrary, ever since Jean Dubuffet established his collection of Art Brut in the 1940s and, later, Roger Cardinal coined the more inclusive category of Outsider Art in 1972, there has been a thriving market for — and discourse around — work by untrained artists which has existed more or less separately from the parallel milieu of contemporary, academic art.
Their collective approach to art - making is steeped in academic discourse, and whilst retaining the vibrancy of their graffiti backgrounds, traditional art movements such as Futurism, Abstract Expressionism and Precisionism are also embraced by the visual vocabulary imbued within their work.
The mission of the journal is to promote academic inquiry; to reflect the wide variety of themes and areas in new media research; to further the evolving discourses related to theory and practice; to showcase the work of new media artists and their presentation environments; and to investigate the issues surrounding education and new media.
While his examples are often from political discourse, the same principles apply to the variety of genres of art discourse, including that in newspapers, the art press, and academic material.
If sceptics were taken more seriously, if there was a debate... if there was a political, or academic culture which accepted debate... Cardiff wouldn't produce such rank pseudo-science, and social scientists in Nottingham could be more confident about the definition of «space in the ecosystem of climate change discourse», but probably would chose his words — and his coordinates — more carefully.
The price you pay (if indeed it is a price) for this magnificent new tool is that some of the arguments are not presented in the manner of conventional academic discourse.
Over the past few decades, the term «Anthropocene» has climbed out of academic discourse and into the popular imagination — a name given to the geologic era we live in now, and a way to signal that it is a new era, defined on the wall chart of deep history by human intervention.
There is certainly a role for blogging to play in academic discourse, but it is a role that is separate and apart from more traditional forms of academic communication.
Richard Gaskins, in his book Burdens of Proof in Modern Discourse -LRB-(Yale University Press: New Haven, 1992), examines the ways in which both burdens of proof and types of arguments well established in law are borrowed or at least adopted by other academic disciplines.
About Blog Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law (JIPEL) with the goal of encouraging scholarly discourse between academics, practitioners, and students interested in intellectual property and entertainment law topics.
About Blog Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law (JIPEL) with the goal of encouraging scholarly discourse between academics, practitioners, and students interested in intellectual property and entertainment law topics.
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