Sentences with phrase «school as social institutions»

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There could be such things as saved social institutions — state, economic systems, and schools.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

One of the major causes of social conservatism is the fact that churches, schools, and other social institutions are so largely influenced by persons whose advantage it is to preserve the status quo and who are prone to regard any departure from it as an affront to Christian morality.

But I think there is a third reason for theological education's resistance to change: the social structure of theological schools as academic institutions tends to inhibit genuine reform.

Gender is a social construction and so - called gender stereotypes are produced and reproduced by institutions such as the family, schools, the labour market or the media.

«In April 2017, the party's school working committee, based on its previous report proposed the formation of the Ghana Institute of Social democracy as an institution of higher learning and research to train many party comrades and other interested stakeholders in the fundamental principles and philosophy of the party.»

As a society and within our educational institutions, discussions about bias, diversity, discrimination, and social justice tend to happen in middle and high schools.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

This is as true in schools as it is in other social institutions.

These institutions promote social justice and inclusivity as virtues of good character, and where public school attendance is determined by residence and highly segregated on socioeconomic lines, Catholic schools, especially those that participate in school choice programs, are diverse in terms of race, social class and even religion.

Though they were originally established as academic learning institutions, it's become clear that schools must now adopt a whole - child approach by including social and emotional learning (SEL) on an ongoing basis.

Further, as one of the rare institutions that welcomes all, closing down a nearby neighborhood school would place a large burden on many immigrant Latino families when the school is quite possibly the only social service that they can access.

(2) a pattern of social institutions — such as governmental organizations, schools, banks, and courts of law — giving inequitable treatment to a group of people based on their race.

Our government institutions have long funded public schools because they produce benefits for society as a whole: productive citizens, social values, shared experiences and an effective workforce.

«By renaming Pratt Institute's School of Information and Library Science to the School of Information, we better position the institution to lead in the information fields, as we continue to explore how new technologies affect our economic, social, and knowledge - making processes,» said Pratt Institute Provost Kirk E. Pillow.

Through the early 30's he worked as an art instructor at many institutions including Art Students League, Miss Halls School, Pittsfield, MA, and The New School for Social Research.

As an outsider to the school but certainly no stranger to its culture, Tehrani plans «to expand [the architecture school's] conversations with the schools of Art and Engineering, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, to catalyze the broadening of architectural discourse within the institution as a whole.&raquAs an outsider to the school but certainly no stranger to its culture, Tehrani plans «to expand [the architecture school's] conversations with the schools of Art and Engineering, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, to catalyze the broadening of architectural discourse within the institution as a whole.&raquas a whole.»

helps explain why the Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen predicted in 2013 that as many as half of the nation's universities may go bankrupt in the next 15 years... America's institutions of higher education, is based on a fundamentally unsustainable social and economic model.

A search for «legal research» in the Social Sciences database turns up 683 results, such as Current Legal Research Topics Database, a database of provisional dissertation titles by students registered for research degrees in law at higher education institutions in the UK; Performing Legal Research: the Moldovan Experience on Globalex at the Hauser Global Law School Program at N.Y.U.; Philippine Legal Research by the Director of Library Services for the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

If you're applying to work within a faith - based institution, such as a church, faith - based child care center, parochial school, spiritual social service provider, worship - affiliated nonprofit, seminary, or other religious institutions of higher education, that is the exception to the aforementioned rules.

As a social worker and unit manager at a state institution for juvenile delinquent boys, the manager of group home for juvenile sex offenders, and a counselor at an alternative learning school, I am very comfortable with and have been very successful working with this population.

Children who are rejected by their peers may take more distance from the norms of conventional social institutions (such as school), putting them at risk for problem behaviors (Coie, 1990; Hinshaw, 1992; Masten et al., 2005).