Sentences with phrase «progressive social vision»
The Teachers Guild and the AFT were fiercely anti-Communist, demanded collective bargaining (then controversial for teachers), and held a larger progressive social vision than most unions.
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If Mr Jean hopes to make the Wildrose party the party of choice for all conservatives, including progressive conservatives, he'll have to do better than float a muddled vision that pussy foots around social issues.
As we see the growth of a progressive spiritual vision, the more rigid elements will feel threatened as they lose social ground and dig in their heels, becoming more aggressive.
Liberal - progressives might raise a hue and cry for «alternatives» as an essential part of our social and educational vision.
The building of «self - esteem» and «community» has been part of the same progressive project, coalescing in today's dominant K - 12 paradigm - constructivism - which combines the child - centered, nonjudgmental, nonhierarchical, teacher - as - facilitator classroom (rooted in the romantic tradition of Rousseau) with a cooperative learning regimen (rooted in Counts's vision of a New Social Man).
The term «social justice» has gone through many permutations over the centuries, but these days it refers essentially to a progressive vision of the world.