Sentences with phrase «political civic engagement»

The program aims to build leadership skills, encourage political civic engagement, and foster a strong interest in public service careers.

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These ties also lead to civic engagement and local political action.»

The starting point for civic engagement in the existing political process is to support voting across the world.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

Oddly enough, the thrill that such notoriety gave was not met with any desire for good civic engagement — as the political scientists would put it.

That declaration might seem pretty picayune, but it's his enthusiasm and attention to the often mundane mechanics of elections and civic engagement that seems to be gaining Peterson, a first - time political candidate, traction against Democratic establishment figure Alex Padilla, a 41 - year - old Democratic state senator from Los Angeles, and a MIT - trained mechanical engineer.

Marjorie helped elect Ritchie Torres to the NYC Council, joined Bronx Community Board 10 where she serves on the executive board as treasurer, and also cofounded Bronx Women United, dedicated to empowering women through political and civic engagement.

This has been reflected in our consistently providing platforms for Labour - LibDem dialogue, seeking to foster engagement between party politics and civic pressure, and in co-hosting the left and liberty session at the Convention for Modern Liberty, and in being significantly engaged in debates about the pluralist reform of party politics, the broader political settlement and the new «movement politics» of a pluralist left.

First Amendment First Vote is a non-partisan civic engagement program designed to encourage high school girls to actively participate in the political process through a series of learning opportunities including educational workshops and fieldtrips.

It is billed as «a candid conversation about what the shifting demographic landscape means for grassroots movements, political action, and civic engagement; how can we shape our democracy into one that is truly representative of the people being governed?»

«Having the ability to participate in elections would create a lot more civic engagement and, on a political level, I don't think communities like the community that I represent, which is 68 percent immigrant, would ever be able to be ignored again by anybody running for major citywide office in New York City.»

FAFV is an inclusive, non-partisan civic engagement program designed to encourage high school girls, grades 9 - 12, to actively participate in the political process and begin to imagine themselves as candidates for elected office sometime in their future.

At the University of Connecticut's Nancy A. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work, we believe that social workers and nonprofit agencies play an important role in bipartisan voter registration and civic engagement.

As the weather warms along with the political calendar, it's time for us to get on our high horse and tout the benefits of civic engagement.

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Further, I long for an article by a political scientist who uses such approaches to demonstrate how civic engagement might be encouraged.

«With increasing inequality in our society, and the complexity of our political environment, civics education is more important, yet more complicated than it used to be,» Kawashima - Ginsberg said, noting that students today tend to be more disconnected from traditional forms of civic engagement and civic institutions.

For 15 years as a college president, I watched each incoming freshman class exhibit less civic engagement and more cynicism toward political processes.

In the final pages, the straight - shooting Montgomery lapses into calls for more multidisciplinary research, funding for research on the new media, and thinking about how we might use new media to promote political and civic engagement.

UCLA's 2015 survey of US students found that «interest in political and civic engagement has reached the highest levels since the study...

Additional private schooling within a nation - state may increase citizens» political and economic freedom through increased educational quality, balanced power relationships, and increased civic engagement.

At CIRCLE, Rey is excited to focus on efforts to study and improve equity in civic and political engagement.

The impact of political homogeneity on civic climate is about the same as that of the average parents» education, which is noteworthy given that education and the status it confers has long been recognized as a major facilitator of social norms generally and of civic engagement specifically.

And if he is correct, we should find a link between strong civic norms at school and engagement in the political process, in both the present and the future.

The Black Lives Matter and DREAMer movements are two examples of how youth civic engagement in the United States is changing as young people bypass traditional civic and political gatekeepers and leverage social media to make their voices heard around the world.

This year, he was awarded a place on the UK Parliament's Teacher Ambassador Programme, which focused on political affairs and civic engagement in schools.

A 2011 study of the Capitol Hill campus showed that the action - oriented curriculum was effectively preparing students to use their political skills to demand change.36 Schools that specialize in student engagement not only instill a strong emphasis on civic education, but also use tangible experience to prepare students to be the next generation of leaders.

Logo: Civ.works is a call and opportunity for civic engagement, encouraging users to come together as Americans to help break down political barriers.

The Tansaekhwa artists» meditative and monastic outlook on artistic creation reflects tenets of Taoism, Buddhism, and Neo-Confucianism, as they contemplate issues surrounding civic disorder and political turbulence through a deliberate engagement with philosophical and spiritual ideologies.

Given the often invoked rationale underlying the use of the living tree metaphor, it is ironic indeed that in constitutionalizing these political and social issues, the courts have «frozen» those issues in time, and thereby immunized those issues from future and evolving civic engagement, discussion and debate.

(5) With the «constitutionalizing» of more and more political and social issues into fundamental rights, the Canadian judiciary has all but removed those issues, in a fairly permanent way, from the realm of future civic engagement and future political debate.

Nix claims that they possess between four and five thousand data points on every potential voter, after combining the personality test results with «attitudinal» data, such as credit card spending patterns, consumer preferences, Facebook likes, and civic and political engagement.

Delivering a civic engagement pep talk to students waiting to register Wednesday, Johnson urged them to become informed about the political world — and to look for leaders beyond celebrities like Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga or LeBron James.

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.

At a 2003 meeting of the International Communication Association in San Diego, California, one presenter described political discussions as a type of «civic engagement» that had the potential to not only contribute to political tolerance on a broader level, but to strengthen interpersonal bonds.

The flood of public calls, e-mails, testimony and civic engagement throughout Florida sent the message loud and clear that we won't have privacy protections that protect our right to have an abortion taken away in the service of a fringe political agenda.