10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IVORY-TOWERED»
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ivory-towered in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Teacher Education: Curriculum and change
The charge about ivory-towered teacher educators will not hold up. I believe the
public is not careful, often confusing teacher educators' disagreement with
common school practices as an example of ivory-towered thinking. Agriculture
would ...
David Hartley, Maurice Whitehead, 2006
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A History of Farming Systems Research
The move off-station was accelerated in response to three factors: the extremely
slow pace of adoption of technologies coming from research2, the criticism that
research was 'ivory towered' and the perception that research was controlled by ...
Michael P. Collinson, 2000
itinerant ivory-towered itinerant, adj. 1. itinerating, traveling, journeying, wayfaring
, peregrinating, peripatetic; roving, roaming, wandering, rambling; galavanting,
flitting, gadding, jetting; thumbing, backpacking. 2. unsettled, nomadic, gypsy, ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
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Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th ...
... self-regulating and implosive state. Cyberpunk is notorious for its repudiation of
this ivory-towered confidence, this faith in a future that works:15 this is not quite
true of Disney's Horizons. Following its reactionary retrospective of retro-futures, ...
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Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the ...
... made it quite easy to dismiss looking into and evaluating that impact as one of
the impractical preoccupations of an ivory-towered elite. The premises of the
argument for open possession of firearms is a classic instance of such a
reduction ...
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Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race
But Arnold by no means proposes an ivory-towered retreat from industrialization.
For, like cultural theorists of our own day, Arnold is very much concerned to
emphasize culture's social function and its role in promoting social change.
was also not unusual for there to be a few rude exchanges between “town and
gown,” given that many of the indigenous young men and women were resentful
of the ivory-towered immigrants who populated their town's campus for nine ...
... effortlessly. If there were PhDs in sneering and shitting they'd all get double
firsts. And I'm supposed to take it all in good part. Shelley-shit! Hardy-shit! Keats-
shit! Shakespeare-shit! And what do those ignorant cardinals in their ivory-
towered ...
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The Right Questions: Truth, Meaning & Public Debate
"I suddenly felt rage toward those ivory- towered theoreticians who glibly spout
gender theories," raged the father, who very nearly fit into that category himself.
Shouldn't they have foreseen the humiliation it would cause a decent father like ...
10
A Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society along the Cape ...
Decrying the “suburban captivity of the church,” religious activists and ivory-
towered scholars alike pointed to the isolation of suburban existence as these
churches disengaged from the city center and focused their energies on
membership ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IVORY-TOWERED»
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How to Unstick Your Work Rut - CMSWire
And at a time when ivory-towered universities are rushing to bring their classes online, General Assembly, as the name suggests, is building ... «CMSWire, Jul 15»
Progressives Look Forward
... entered academe at Rochester Theological Seminary (now "Colgate Rochester Crozer") which he never allowed to be ivied or ivory-towered. «Huffington Post, May 15»
Sensible clothing is back - even my daughter is wearing it
Those in the ivory-towered know at glossy style magazines have referred to this interregnum of downbeat dullness and common sense as the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
A Riposte to Christopher Allen
But the ivory-towered and white blindfolded Allen is as uncertain about the market as he is about Aboriginal art. He has the curious idea that an ... «Aboriginal Art Directory News, May 15»
If everything is awesome, then nothing is
That's how communication works — not through the carved-in-stone mechanics defined by ivory-towered stylebooks, but by the way people use ... «Daily Californian, May 15»
Salon.com is for Petulant Children
It is understandable these ivory-towered elitists may be unwilling to understand such a novel concept, but from a publication like Salon, which ... «The Libertarian Republic, Apr 15»
NCAA championship: So, who do we hate now?
Duke does carry that private school, ivory-towered, better-than-thou arrogance as well as anyone. But it does not have Christian Laettner or a ... «The Daily Advertiser, Apr 15»
Sharia in Britain: ignoring common sense
But when it comes to Islam in Britain, the Westminster political classes would rather go along with the ivory-towered views of the former ... «The Commentator, Mar 15»
Joni Mitchell, Joan Didion, and Justin Bieber: Fashions New …
... and pursuits, is the simple maxim “celebrity sells,” and to fine, ivory-towered or lefty-hippie minds as much as those marinated in pop culture. «Daily Beast, Jan 15»
Rise, We Will
Adding to the crisis were a set of narrow minded, ivory-towered specialists ridiculing on the scene they had filmed. Floods had created a ... «Kashmir Life, Oct 14»
