It's just an honest
reflection on some of the questions I ask myself.
Not exact matches
The speech goes
on to suggest that even if the recent volatility was not a
reflection of fundamentals, it is worth ensuring that all the information has been extracted from it and that the big policy
questions that are «lurking» have been considered, as they may play a role in future bouts
of market nervousness.
They show that uncontrolled joint development agreements were not relevant to the
question of whether to include stock option costs in QCSAs because clear
reflection of income for high - profit intangibles can not succeed if it relies
on uncontrolled party data.
His Yom Kippur
reflections, first published in the Los Angeles Times and widely available
on the Web,
questioned Israeli occupation
of Palestinian territory and criticized the military force with which Israel responded to Palestinian provocations.
The book includes a series
of reflections on the importance
of thinking critically about faith and the value
of asking difficult
questions regarding everything from God to religion to language to government.
The problem, then, is how the theologian should reach his conclusions
on those broader
questions of general
reflection presupposed in his work.
He must either become more and more unreasonably dogmatic, affirming that
on all these
questions he has answers given him by his tradition that are not subject to further adjudication, or else he must finally acknowledge that his theological work does rest upon presuppositions that are subject to evaluation in the context
of general
reflection.
«In a first phase, the attention
of this discipline was oriented, rather, to problematic situations within society -LSB-...] With the theological emphasis, John XXIII treats more decisively the
question of all this in terms
of the human person -LSB-...] John Paul II then reinforced this -LSB-...] In the logic
of this Encyclical, we find then a further stage, perhaps a third phase in the
reflection on social doctrine.
It is not necessary to illustrate this situation here at the beginning
of our
reflections with particular examples
of the
questions or proceedings which gave rise to disquiet, since we shall have to go into the matter, as far as is necessary and possible, when forming a judgment
on it.
The president
of the Student Government Association serves as «master
of ceremonies,» the president
of the college makes comments, and there are two faculty and two student speakers, who are as likely to offer
reflections on the year just ending as to address them - selves to
questions of value and meaning.
Where the taboos were simply pushed aside by reason, as in India and Greece, rational
reflection on the nature
of the good life became possible, but the sense
of ought, expressed so powerfully in the taboos, remained unrationalized, whereas among the Hebrews the
question of what one ought to do preoccupied rational attention.
To answer such
questions, we must do some
reflection on what we expect
of a theology.
On the hotly debated
question of Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, the synod's report offers a solution
of the «penitential path» or a period
of reflection and penance which would allow the partners in a second marriage to receive communion.
Whether and how far these
reflections concerning a positive relation between spirit and matter may be significant when it is a
question of asking in philosophical and theological terms whether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation
on the basis
of the nature
of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects
of «becoming» in general.
In the first paragraph
of the first essay
of The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton introduced the basic theme: «It seems to have been reserved to the people
of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important
question, whether societies
of men are really capable or not
of establishing good government from
reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions
on accident and force.»
There will need to be some immediate strategic
reflection within the pro-life movement
on these
questions, along with some hard assessment
of previous failures.
There is one part
of the Old Testament in particular where there is
reflection on this
question of divine images and names.
«When our mindset is neither dominated by an anxiety regarding the weakening
of one's own positions nor closed to possibly necessary corrections, then all sorts
of questions, which early
on were raised solely from an apologetical perspective, can now be raised
on their own merits, with an honesty and open - mindedness, which is decisively necessary for all theoretical
reflection.»
That is, serious
reflection on the
question of being at its most radical level will allow us to incorporate many aspects
of Aquinas» notion
of «being» or «esse» into a process context.
A Black professor at Garrett - Evangelical Theological Seminary, Henry Young, has just published a book dealing with this
question: Hope in Process: A Theology
of Social Pluralism, and my
reflection on this topic owes much to him.
Reflections on the Morality
of the Persian Gulf War edited by David E. DeCosse Doubleday, 132 pages, $ 15 The views
of Stanley Hauerwas and George Weigel
on the
question posed by the title are familiar to readers
of this journal.
It is to this
question that any
reflection on the idea
of God, in whatever context, eventually has to return.
Reflection on the
question continued into the first centuries
of the medieval period, when a full and robust definition
of the person was first formed by the philosopher - theologian, St Boëthius.
The Leftovers is at its most interesting when it is a
reflection on human grief, suffering and confusion about the big
questions, and when it causes us to ask
of ourselves, what if...?
If I ask myself whether,
on fuller
reflection about my reason for feeling this way, my sense
of obligation may cease to attach itself to the nonperformance
of the action in
question, I incline strongly to the negative view, and I find it difficult to believe that at this point other rational beings differ from me.
Careful
reflection on the relation between God's nature and God's will by both sides can prove fruitful, but the priority
of God's nature appears necessary in order to resolve contemporary
questions about what God is doing in the world.
So I didn't break any
of the rules or the conventions and there's no
question that I did,» he said
on Radio 4's
Reflections With Peter Hennessy.
«These
questions are sentiment
questions, they're not a
reflection of what will happen in an election because voters only get to give their sentiment
on this, they don't get to choose what district they're in,» Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said.
Susan also reflected
on the challenge
of questioning Gov. Andrew Cuomo and highlighted... Continue reading «
Reflections from the Plywood Hut»
They might [cost] $ 10 billion but it is $ 10 billion spread over a decade; and I would certainly argue that if we as a civilization don't have that kind
of money to put together to ask [and] answer fundamental
questions then it's truly a sad
reflection on our civilization.
A discursive
reflection on her shift from political «theory» to political «practice» and, at the same time, a self -
questioning of its own practice and theories.
Teachers at Loudoun County School Division had a thoughtful conversation about the power
of sustained inquiry, which is based
on questioning skills, and how student
reflection was critical to learning.
From the creation
of research
questions to
reflection on their learning, iPads facilitated the undertaking, allowing the teachers to implement an innovative new curriculum where students created, collaborated and connected in order to deepen their understanding
of bats as well as the research process.
His
reflections on the philosophy
of Gandhi, Sun Tzu and other Eastern thinkers led to more
questions, such as: What is his true community?
It's a
question that Lecturer Pamela Mason poses to her Language and Literacy students each spring, right before she drops the bomb that causes the class to squirm; namely that part
of their final grade will be based
on based
on a self -
reflection they'll write after watching a video
of themselves teaching.
His talk, Theory and Practice in Reading Comprehension:
Reflections on a Half Century
of Work, will revisit his long career, take a look at the future
of the field, and ask the
question, «Was all the work worth it?»
Reflection Questions - This is a sheet that asks students to quantify some
of their mistakes
on the assessment as a whole so that they can look at their data in the eye in order to goal - set later.
This resource features an activity that can be used by a variety
of disciplines to promote profound
reflection on questions, effective sharing
of opinions, global collaboration, interconnection
of ideas and innovative problem - solving.
Staff are then asked to fill out a
reflection sheet comprised
of six
questions loosely based
on the GROW coaching model (Goals, Reality, Options and Will) developed by Sir John Whitmore and colleagues in the 1980s.
In particular, she favoured
questioning to develop
REFlection, a framework
of questions that begins with Reflecting, then moves
on to Exploring and finishes with Future directions.
So one
of the key
questions in that written
reflection is «Are there particular suggestions you'd like to make to the leadership team for the college to improve its quality
of teaching and learning based
on the domains
of the NSIT?»
Based
on a cross-case analysis
of online and
on - campus courses, the results
of the study indicate that while there was no significant difference between online and
on - campus courses in terms
of teacher acquisition
of knowledge related to CLD instruction and assessment,
questions remain about whether distance learning can promote critical self -
reflection, culturally responsive teaching practices, and collaboration within schools, when teacher learning is not supported and situated in schools and communities in an ongoing and structured way.
Here are the
questions, some
of the tweets I shared and my
reflections on the responses.
Observation
of the presentation
of the lessons,
reflections on these observations, and student surveys are used to explore and answer the research
questions.
The authors have built upon the continuum shared in their first book, Building Teachers» Capacity for Success, and added a tool to identify where the teacher is
on the continuum
of self -
reflection, as well as
questions for self -
reflection at each
of the four levels.
The interview
questions allowed me to obtain a more in - depth understanding
of the participants»
reflections on their familiarity with the NETS - T and technology integration, in general.
For the purposes
of this study, we limited analyses to
questions that focused
on teachers»
reflections on two lessons they had just taught.
The second time you watch the same video focus
on targeted
reflection questions, or pick a specific instructional strategy to watch for, or watch your students» engagement, or the ratio
of interactions with students.
These
questions may seem rudimentary, but they provide authentic evidence
of student learning and can lead to honest conversation and deep
reflection about teacher practice and the impact it had
on student learning
of the lesson.
Even if you can't answer all or some
of these
questions, use them as opportunities for
reflection on your goals you have for yourself and team and the direction you need to go.