Sentences with phrase «social reforms within»

The changes are part of the kingdom's raft of economic and social reforms within its Vision 2030 program.

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The real wedge, he argues, was the spirit of Reform — the spirit that claimed (these are my words, not Taylor's) that all social institutions should be subject to revisions that would bring them into conformity to the consciences of the people who had to live within them.

Unfortunately spirituality itself has been elaborated within the later Christian tradition very much in an individualistic manner: seeking inner purification and saving one's soul or advancing towards personal liberation, without an effort at a reform of the unjust social relationships and structures.

The economic reforms Leo proposes in Rerum Novarum can never succeed within the confines of Enlightenment philosophy — within, say, a social contract understanding of society, authority, and law, where the common good is the sum total of private goods determined by a calculus of self - interest.

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gsocial planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social GSocial Gospel.

For social democrats, it means reflecting on how institutional forms can be entrenched within the fabric of society, rather than swept away immediately in the wake of electoral defeat as may be the fate of Labour's social reforms in the United Kingdom.

As a consequence, we must understand China's reform efforts as a bid to rationalise both its economic and social structures, within a framework of strongly ideology - laden national rejuvenation.

Despite the welcome and significant changes to the Health & Social Care Bill that Lib Dem parliamentarians have secured, there remain serious concerns both within the party, Parliament and the medical profession about the impact and timing of the reforms.

However, he says that more money is not always the answer, highlighting the success of Sheffield NHS health and social care foundation trust which has — by reforming services and allocating existing budgets in a different way — treated all acute mental health patients within its own district for the past three years.

While there's no need for unity for within their own ranks, like with the Reform Party, they don't want social issues to distract from fiscal issues, so they can achieve some unity on fiscal issues in the country as a whole.

Possibly most of the «socialists» within the Labour Party — like even Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn — not being Socialist Workers Party style socialists, did not leave the Party and instead grudgingly accepted our dilution to social democracy for the main reason that pure socialism sans in - govt would remain a mere theory and would be worse than practical social democratic reforms / reliefs whilst in power -LRB--- and particularly bebeficial / necessary after a prolonged Thatcherite damage to our society!

After two years working in Portland, I found my way to Bay Area, California where I taught 9th grade social studies for 3 years while I supported faculty in developing their capacity to hold space for critical conversations around diversity, inclusion, and equity, as well as supporting social justice curriculum reform within the network.

With the current radical reforms within the health and social care sector there needs to be very clear guidance on roles and responsibilities.

Prior to starting Envision Schools, I taught social studies, served as a student - activities director, and was a mentor teacher, a reform leader, and the head of a school within a school, Academy X, at Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, California.

By undercutting these reform strategies and presenting evidence on the powerful influence of social class on student achievement, Rothstein hopes to convince us that we can expect little from focusing on reform within the school system.

In addition to the curriculum - reform recommendations, the Elementary Grades Task Force suggested more aggressive efforts to consider ethnic background in hiring teachers, expanded social services within schools, and performance - based assessments that, in the case of limited - English - proficient students, would be given in their native language.

Whether education reform should be situated within a larger social justice context is a fair question, and one we should be asking.

Consider legendary American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker endorsing reforms in the wake of the 1983 report A Nation at Risk; or current AFT President Randi Weingarten pushing the anti-reformers within her caucus; or new National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen García showing humor as a parent and grace as a social justice advocate.

By examining the diversity of internal groups and theories of social change within unions, I contest the assumption that teachers» unions are unitary actors simply «blocking» education reform efforts.

Within Black America, there is a lot of disagreement between old - school civil rights players — who continue to see integration, busing and equity lawsuits as the cure for achievement gaps between blacks and whites — and the younger generation of African - Americans, who understand that more - systemic reforms (including breaking ranks with the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers) is critical to black economic and social advancement.

Systemic reform and social change can not be fully realized without the work of networks within communities that can make things happen.

A term poached from social science, it classifies effectively a field of curatorial practice, institutional reform and critical debate concerned with the transformation of art institutions from within.

A recent white paper on sport published by the Commission failed to provide any legal certainty and while the EU Reform (Lisbon) Treaty, if ratified, would, for the first time, include an article on sport, it merely underlines the importance of sport and its social and educational role within the EU.

Our exploration of the Social Lab as a way to close the implementation gap for family justice reform, has revealed how valuable the mediation skillset is to encourage effective collaboration, to interpret the world from a variety of different perspectives, to engage with those both within and outside of the «system», to value curiosity and learning, and to do joint problem - solving.

Much of the present efforts toward justice reform is focused on improving public legal education, redesigning justice processes and integrating social services within justice processes.

As ATSIC stated in the Social Justice Package proposal, Recognition, rights and reform, self - determination should not be constrained within existing legal and political structures as such structures «must be able to be changed to take account of Indigenous rights».

Mr Gooda, who is also the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, said achieving the closing the gap targets within a generation would require a long term reform agenda.