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Showing 1 to 20 of 136 for “"Democratic society"”.
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Praxialism: A Philosophical Foundation of Multicultural Education in a Democratic Society
… of multiple cultures by different peoples in a democratic society. Culture is viewed as a significant human engagement, which is necessary for the continuity of life. It upholds the equality of all cultures in their ability to sustain its people over a period of time. The central finding of this …
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Gender equality in building a democratic society for a sustainable future in Tajikistan
… argues that to build a holistically sustainable society with a strong democracy, Tajikistan needs to address gender issues and rethink its education system. In order to give a broader picture of women’s position in Tajikistan, this study traced perspectives on the contributions of women during …
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Redistribution within a Democratic society : the 'finished business' of he Italian agrarian reform
… land to the rural poor is not feasible under democratic regimes. This pessimistic view is based on the slowness and inefficiency of many expropriation and settlement schemes in the developing world, which have fallen victim of the undue influence of the landowners and of the technical …
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Mental models in manifesto texts : the case of students for a democratic society and weatherman
The focus of this thesis is the study of manifesto texts and the way they offer collective audiences geopolitical worldviews grounded in mental models. I investigate both propositional and imagistic approaches to conceptual structure suggested in sociological, psychological and linguistic …
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An Exploration of How Primary School Teachers in Malawi Plan and Implement Social Studies Lessons for the Preparation of Active Participatory Citizens in a Democratic Society
The purpose of public schooling in many democratic nation-states is the preparation of an active participatory citizenry. For this reason, educators advocate the use of participatory classroom practices for instilling in students knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes for active civic …
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Right of access to information and its limitation by national security in Nigeria: mutually inclusive or exclusive?
… only by 'law that is reasonably justifiable in a democratic society'. Unfortunately, access to information in Nigeria is heavily circumscribed by statutes that confer absolute powers on the executive to classify information to protect vague 'national security' interests inconsistently with what is …
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Individualism in education reform
… democracy while creating an environment where a democratic society will not thrive. One of the reasons that business-minded reformers are so successful in promoting their agenda is that our society is highly individualistic. The individualistic nature of society in the U.S. provides fertile …
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Secrecy in Political Communication: Aspects of an Analytical Framework
… importance of the free flow of information in a democratic society or to detect indicators of deception. Such studies frequently assume that secrec
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A Study of Centralization in the Thai Police Department.
… can be achieved only by those who live in a democratic society. In a totalitarian society, there is no freedom for the individual because the state has total control over man without limitations. Also, there is no individual movement in politics, economics, society, religion, or education …
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Softwarepatents - A change of Law?
… substantial change of the patent law which, in a democratic society, should only be done by a parliamentary act of legislation. The paper provides a discerning look at the genesis of software patents in the case laws of the United States of America and the European Union, paying attention to the …
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Temporal Capitalism: How Time Shapes Democracy Under Capitalism
… of capitalist employers the outcome of liberal democratic inputs is naturally skewed towards the owning class, and against the working class. Understanding time this way offers a route to its politicization and can serve as an argument against the seeming neutrality of capitalism by making …
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Identifying Opportunities that Promote a Habit of Mind in the Quantitative Reasoning Classroom.
<p>Quantitative literacy and its role in a democratic society are emerging topics of concern to mathematics educators throughout the world. Undergraduate courses in Quantitative Reasoning (QR) are a recent addition to the growing list of resources aimed at remedying quantitative illiteracy in …
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Reconciling the irreconcilable: Democracy and the National security exemption to the right to freedom of information
… be reasonable and justifiable in an open and democratic society based on human dignity, equality, and freedom. The right to freedom of information is subject to often severe limitations in the arena of national security matters on the ground that the need for secrecy in this arena is …
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Social responsibility in major newspapers coverage of "9/11 lapses" controversy
… listed as required for the press in a democratic society. They were successful in providing a source of comprehensive and balanced information, a forum for exchange of comment and criticism on the government's losses and failures. However, major newspapers failed to aggressively pursue …
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A Comparative Study of the Constitutional Jurisprudences of Information Privacy in Germany, the United States, and Taiwan
… but alsoadvances public values essential to a democratic society. On the one hand, information privacy is a crucial aspect of autonomy, especially when considered as one's control over personal information. Moreover, in some situations, information privacy is a precondition for one to make an …
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Political Commitment: A Sartrean Civic Virtue
… virtue is the foundation of a well-ordered, democratic society. Political commitment is not out of place in Anglo-American thinking; in fact, the Sartrean virtue should be seen as an important contribution to the ethical vocabulary of American democracy.
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Improving Qualitative Assessment In Higher Education
… in turn the role education plays in civil, democratic society; the role assessment plays in education; and the role theoretical constructs and cultural contexts play in assessment. Then, through literature review, document analysis, and interviews, the analysis investigates, identifies, and …
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Reach out and be healed : constitutional rights to traditional African healing
… its public health care service, is raised. In a democratic society, law must be responsive to the needs of the populace. Ethnographic fieldwork demonstrates that traditional healing is used not in opposition to, but as a complementary twin of, biomedicine. Considering this, it shall be argued …
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Institution and Monstrosity in the Narrative of Fernando Contreras Castro
… have profoundly affected not only Costa Rican society but many of the national institutions. It focuses on revealing the uprising unfertile relationship between the residents and the governmental institutions, whose monstrous model of behavior are incompatible with the Costa Rican Constitution …
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Does the tax administration act sufficiently protect the taxpayers' right to privacy or provide the taxpayer with a right to be informed?
… and justifiable limited in the interest of a democratic society in order to fund the administrative and financial burden on the state. The current society with advanced information technology has resulted in information being easily accessible and transferred and accordingly our privacy is …
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