Sentences with phrase «social change agent»

Keynote speakers and delegates will be reviewing the various aspects of leisure as a social change agent at individual, community and societal levels in a rapidly changing world.

In this fourth lesson, students will begin to contemplate the role of music as a social change agent.

Traditionally activists and social change agents have dealt with environmental and social issues separately, but the environmental justice (EJ) movement is working to connect social inequity and environmental degradation while mobilizing to address needs in both areas.

Not exact matches

Wise talent officers will wake up and realize that while they may be the overseers of a larger social recruiting strategy, the agents who will make the most change are the very people they attracted in the first place.

OXFORD, U.K. — At my first Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurs a year ago, the world's leading change agents were rattled.

I've literally written the book on Pinterest Promoted Pins (Pinterest advertising) and have conducted trainings for Social Media Examiner and the Agents of Change.

I'm a dedicated champion of Community (with a capital «C») as both an agent of social change and a driver of business goals.

Agents are changing their social media habits in a way that benefits their own brand and TheRedPin's brand simultaneously.

According to the Kerner Commission's analysis, racist white America was similarly bereft of moral resources, such that government, rather than the institutions of civil society that had been so central to the classic civil - rights movement, had to become the principal agent of enforced social change in order to deal with the crisis of an America «moving toward two societies... separate and unequal.»

A graduate of Spelman College and Duke Divinity school, she molds her life after the strong belief that we are called to be agents of social and spiritual change.

The college of education at the University of Alabama is officially committed «to preparing individuals to promote social justice, to be change agents, and to recognize individuals and institutionalized racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism.»

Every student should be strongly encouraged, if not required, to take at least one quarter of clinical pastoral training and another in an urban internship; the first would help equip him to be a change agent in individual relationship, and the second would help equip him to be a change agent in organizations, structures, and social systems.

There are now persons in the pews who were born in the city, who are secular in their outlook, who are keenly aware of the ways in which their lives are shaped by structures which they do not control and who are concerned that their religious institutions should be active agents of social change.

These constantly repeated messages have been shown to be effective agents of social change: not so much by producing direct change in individual behaviour, but by slowly affecting perceptions of social reality and meaning which underlie behaviour.

In Weber's typology, a prophet is an agent of radical social change, a charismatic figure claiming a personal, divine call to act and sometimes attracting followers.

The most casual reading of the Bible suggests that the prophets knew social problems because they knew victims, change agents, and the rest.

Persons who are grasped by the power of such visions, who are inspired by a «sublime madness in the soul» (Reinhold Niebuhr), are the probable agents of redemptive social change, even though they know in their critical moments that no future achievement is likely to embody the full measure of their treasured ideal.

(b) Equipping change agents with skills: Social actionists often stumble over their own ineptness in communication and relationships, and their ambivalence about risk - taking and aggressiveness.

Both find their support among the popular classes, and in both people become agents of social change through their religious activity.

Are migrants agents of political and social change in their homelands?

He said: «The Labour Party is the greatest agent for social change this country has ever known and I have always welcomed growth of our party and wider movement.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) is keynoting a conference in Brooklyn featuring several controversial artists, including a group that teaches kids how to become «radical agents of social and political change» using principles of the Black Panther Party.

But a simulation system that gives computer - controlled agents a sense of social propriety could change that, leading to more realistic interactions between humans and characters in games.

GOD FRIENDED ME stars Brandon Micheal Hall in a humorous, uplifting drama about Miles Finer (Hall), an outspoken atheist whose life is turned upside down when he receives a friend request on social media from God and unwittingly becomes an agent of change in the lives and destinies of others around him.

Brandon Micheal Hall stars in a humorous, uplifting drama about Miles Finer (Hall), an outspoken atheist whose life is turned upside down when he receives a friend request on social media from God and unwittingly becomes an agent of change in the lives and destinies of others around him.

The University of Alabama's College of Education is «committed to preparing individuals to promote social justice, to be change agents, and to recognize individual and institutional racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism.

Some conservatives believe they are being forced to support a broader set of social issues and embrace strategies or tactics they do not agree with as a litmus test to determine whether they are true change agents in education.

The actions developed by change agents in crèches, schools and communities are evaluated, registered and disseminated by CECIP in books and Manuals in which the social technologies are made available, to be recreated.

And their preferred mode of vindication was to cast arts education as an agent of social change and individual transformation.

Occupation Change in real wages (2002 - 6) Change in real wages (2007 - 10) Change in real wages (2011 - 14) Social worker 7.5 % -0.5 % -3.9 % Transport professional 4.8 % 6.8 % 13.7 % Police officer 3.2 % -2.5 % -8.1 % Education professional 2.3 % 0.0 % -6.9 % Technology professional 1.6 % -3.7 % -5.2 % Nurse 0.0 % 3.2 % -6.4 % Electrician -0.3 % 3.9 % -4.0 % Travel agent -0.7 % -0.4 % -3.9 % Accountant -1.3 % -6.1 % -3.7 % Engineering professional -1.8 % -0.9 % -4.1 % Retail sales assistant -4.8 % -0.4 % -5.0 % Building trades -11.9 % -10.3 % -12.8 % Management consultant -17.8 % -6.3 % -10.4 % All UK full - time workers 3.8 % -0.9 % -5.9 % Table 3: Change in real wages in different economic conditions 2002 - 14

As William Deresiewicz underscored in his recent book, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, the goal of education should always be «to leverage learning as an agent of social change — the kind of objective that makes leadership and citizenship into something more than pretty words.»

Developing leaders and change agents with a focus on equity and social justice is a strongly held value in CCE's model.

An exhibited ability to work with children in a caring and respectful manner in order to create a joyful, caring classroom environment where instructional time includes community building, conflict resolution, skill - building, and empowering students to be peacemakers and agents for positive social change

Researchers and practitioners in the field of social studies have clearly begun moving beyond the perceived reluctance to embrace digital technologies as change agents in social studies education (Manfra, 2014).

In social justice work, marginalized youth are often positioned as change agents; people whose critical awareness can be harnessed in the service of political transformation.

According to Giroux (2006), the central goal of critical pedagogy is «educating students to become critical agents actively questioning and negotiating the relationship between theory and practice, critical analysis and common sense, and learning and social change» (p. 5).

The Counseling and Development program mission of advocacy, social justice, multiculturalism, and diversity are infused throughout the curriculum and students are taught to be leaders and agents of positive change in the school community and at the local, state, and national levels.

The school is an agent of social change.

Thank you for helping them become the premier agents of social change within and for the communities that they will serve.

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

Justice: We are empowered agents of change for social justice and equity.

But as I see it, the «change agent» ideas have been around for a long time and come straigbt from the Left and their «social justice» philosphy — which are backed by the unions, who were the first ones to start changing our schools, back in the 1970's; it wasn't the Broad Foundation.

These teachers believed that schooling should help students become critical change agents who felt capable of and responsible for addressing social injustices in their communities.

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The main goal of a social entrepreneur is to be an agent of change and not to earn a profit.

On the positive side, many behaviourist game makers believe that games can be agents of social change and self improvement.

The series explores how ideology intersects with personal identity and how belief can act as a wide ranging agent - one of exclusivity, violence, spiritual transcendence, and social change.

The project aims to reflect on our positions as artists, curators and institutions, working with agents of social change and questioning our institutional habits.

The Community Arts Engagement Minor is for students who wish to work in art / design education and socially engaged art / design practices in venues that do not require a teaching credential, such as K - 12 private schools, museum education departments, community arts centers, correctional facilities, therapeutic arts programs, design companies that focus on educational materials, and the use of art and design as an agent for positive social change.