Sentences with phrase «textbook accounts»

The debates over bilingual education, multicultural curricula, and textbook accounts of American history are evidence of a nation's struggle to define itself in the face of a shifting population.

Though women actively participated alongside men in the studios, clubs, and exhibitions, textbook accounts of the movement tell the story through the work of a handful of male artists.

«The exhibition will contribute to a more complete understanding of this important mid-20th century movement by presenting artists beyond the handful of painters who have previously defined the whole in textbook accounts,» said Gwen Chanzit, the curator of modern art at the DAM, in a statement.

Anselm's theory of the satisfaction of the divine honor, which has suffered from being woodenly and inadequately described in many textbook accounts, really acknowledges the personal burden of our guilt before God.

You're writing the high school history textbook account of Baseball instead, and that's not useful to anyone except the people writing it.

Afterward, ask the students to discuss how their initial expectations of the activity compared with the actual interview, and talk about any differences between textbook accounts of the topic and the speaker's experiences.

Since the rise of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, New York has dominated textbook accounts of contemporary art.

In overturning an earlier Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal decision, the Supreme Court reinstated $ 839,000 in damages that had been awarded at trial to Wanda Young, a Memorial University student who was wrongfully accused of child abuse after submitting an essay that included an unattributed textbook account of a female child abuse victim who went on to become an abuser.

«The exhibition will contribute to a more complete understanding of this important mid - 20th century movement by presenting artists beyond the handful of painters who have previously defined the whole in textbook accounts.

In cataloging the media center resources, students were asked to determine the types of materials that were available and ways in which the materials either reinforced the textbook account of their topic or provided an alternative narrative.

After reviewing a textbook account of their historical topic, students were asked to catalog and critique resources found within the school media resource library.