Sentences with phrase «theories about abstraction»

By working in the galleries and the Access Gallery studio, we have been able to introduce not only concepts and theories about abstraction, which are often new concepts for our students, but also expand their confidence with new mediums and approaches on paper.

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If the theory of concreteness applies to concrete singulars in a way it does not apply to groupings of such singulars, or to abstractions, then there is a restrictedness about the theory.

Whitehead experiments for a while with deliberations about the various theories of the world with regard to the degree to which they abstract from the world, and about adjusting a sequence of more or less abstract perspectives on the world, oriented at the level of abstraction attainable in the mathematized natural sciences.

For me, that offers one of the key perspectives on understanding societies, and it is a way of thinking about politics that shifts it away from the great theories and abstractions of political philosophers, who often can not speak with reference to everyday life.

Perhaps teachers don't need generalized theories and abstractions, but rather ready - to - go strategies — not information about how children learn, but the best way to teach fractions; not how children process negative emotion, but what to say to a 3rd grader who is dejected about his reading.

Jackson tells me that she first encountered new ways to think about the historic role of abstraction during her undergraduate tenure at Cooper Union, where several artist teachers, including Walid Raad, Dore Ashton, and Doug Ashford, showed her that artists could be part of critical, public political theory.