Sentences with phrase «unexamined assumption»
She questions the widely - held but fairly unexamined assumption that we can effectively use summative descriptions of performance (for example, descriptors of the sort we might find in a mark scheme or taxonomy) to define progression (including what provides high challenge) in the classroom.
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The Sunday school deserves to be liberated from the unexamined assumption that it is in the nature of Sunday school to be superficial.
It was just an unexamined assumption that there was no third person involved in early pregnancy.
It is easy to dismiss something you have not experienced but that is a position of unexamined assumption and bias that must be exposed for what it is.
When leaders fall prey to analytical bias and unexamined assumptions, the consequences can be very bad.
But the term nowaways usually connotes, in the words of my dictionary, a «set of general unexamined assumptions,» and these are for the most part simply the parochial prejudices of one's time and place.
What I find is another example of how unexamined assumptions operate — this time in theology itself, where I have claimed there is the greatest openness to examining assumptions.
And doubtless some of their post-sixties conformism is less a matter of an ideological agenda than of unexamined assumptions.
While I wonder if Turner is using too tight a definition of fulfillment, his attempt to point out some unexamined assumptions about the text are well taken.
An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.
«The plan that has been sent over to Congress has a great many loose ends and unexamined assumptions that call its credibility into question,» stated Gordon.
We do urgently need to face our unexamined assumptions and prejudices.
At age 53, it's one I'm starting to hear more and one that comes with truckloads of often unexamined assumptions.
I'll assist them in becoming aware of triggers, habits and unexamined assumptions which keep them stuck in repetitive cycles.
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Most contemporary «American» theologies are still influenced by some unexamined philosophical assumptions about how truth is known.
A church of friends, a world of compassion without domination or privilege, winners or loser — we dismiss that as impossible because our imaginations, conditioned by unexamined political and economic assumptions, can not grasp it as a practical possibility.
Important also are the background assumptions, the unexamined or unspoken philosophical presuppositions, of all this effort on society's behalf.
But assumptions, especially when implicit, can have a constraining effect when they go unexamined.
«These other factors may include calculations about narrow political advantage, unexamined prejudices and assumptions, even sheer personal ego.
The current law regarding access and many reform initiatives, such as parenting plans, are based, in large part, on assumptions regarding access that are not accurate, or are largely unexamined.