Word: frameworks
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Since the early days of the Republic, America has been a seafaring nation. The powerful rigging of our Constitutional ideals have always been held aloft by the mast and spars of a concerned, active citizenry. This has been exemplified by the stout framework of a calling to public service, a concern for the public good and a charitable spirit of volunteerism. But no matter how seaworthy the craft, how adept the captain, or how steady the wind, without this structural integrity, even a great ship of state will eventually become paralyzed. Because today's concerned students are indeed stakeholders...
Adopting the dual role of theorist-volunteer means that we are radically dependent on learning from our "clients" if we hope to serve them in any meaningful sense. To paraphrase Paulo Freire, we have to encourage a pedagogy by the oppressed as we connect volunteerism to a larger framework of social understanding. This is the essential role of a "service learning" program in the academy, and makes it more than worthy of a place within the canon of our "core" requirements...
...mandate. As Kessler reminded the panelists several times during the proceedings, their only task was to decide whether they were reasonably certain that olestra was harmless. Says the commissioner: "It was very important to me to make sure that everyone on that advisory committee understand that framework. The questions were not, 'Does this product make sense? Does this product contribute to the nutritional health of the nation?' That is not the standard...
...real European defense component, because there is no civilization that can survive for long if it is not capable of defending itself. So I think that we must create a sort of European defense pillar around the Western European Union, naturally linked to the American pillar within the framework of the Atlantic Alliance. Second, it is evident that the Atlantic Alliance must expand eastward. But I say simply that we must be careful to reach an agreement with the Russians that will permit this enlargement without threatening or humiliating them. Russia is a great power, a great people...
...Cambrian explosion, the more singular it seems. And just as the peculiar behavior of light forced physicists to conclude that Newton's laws were incomplete, so the Cambrian explosion has caused experts to wonder if the twin Darwinian imperatives of genetic variation and natural selection provide an adequate framework for understanding evolution. "What Darwin described in the Origin of Species," observes Queen's University paleontologist Narbonne, "was the steady background kind of evolution. But there also seems to be a non-Darwinian kind of evolution that functions over extremely short time periods - and that's where all the action...