Essentialism is a relatively conservative stance to education that strives to teach students the knowledge of our society and civilization through a core curriculum.

Essentialism is the most typically enacted philosophy in American classrooms today.

However, because Essentialism is largely teacher-centered, the role of the student is often called into question.

Essentialism, in its broadest sense, is any philosophy that acknowledges the primacy of Essence.

Because Essentialism is a conceptual worldview that is not dependent on objective facts and measurements, it is not limited to empirical understanding or the objective way of looking at things.

Possibly the clearest definition for this philosophy was offered by gay / lesbian rights advocate Diana Fuss, who wrote: " Essentialism is most commonly understood as a belief in the real, true essence of things, the invariable and fixed properties which define the ' whatness ' of a given entity ".

Essentialism is used by some historians in listing essential cultural characteristics of a particular nation or culture.

Aristotelian Essentialism is concerned with properties which Marcus defines in the context of a modal framework.

* Nader El-Bizri, " Avicenna and Essentialism ," Review of Metaphysics, Vol.

* Mahalingam, Ramaswami ; " Essentialism, Culture, and Power: Representations of Social Class " Journal of Social Issues, Vol.

Despite the metaphysical basis for the term, academics in science, aesthetics, heuristics, psychology, and gender-based sociological studies have advanced their causes under the banner of Essentialism.

Essentialism has emerged as an important concept in psychology, particularly developmental psychology.

Classical Essentialism claims that some things are wrong in an absolute sense, for example murder breaks a universal, objective and natural moral law and not merely an adventitious, socially or ethically constructed one.

* Sayer, Andrew ( August 1997 ) " Essentialism, Social Constructionism, and Beyond ", Sociological Review 45: 456.

* Oderberg, David S. ( 2007 ) Real Essentialism New York, Routledge.

Brian David Ellis has categorized more recent efforts as the " New Essentialism.

" Home Is a Matter of Blood, Time, and Genre: Essentialism in Burnett and McKinley.

*" How Not to Derive Essentialism From the Theory of Reference " ( 1979 ) Journal of Philosophy 76: 703-725.

Essentialism refers to the practice of generalizing about all women ( or any group ) as though they were essentially the same.

Essentialism obscures the diversity that exists among women.

It ensures that the rights to use and manage our lands, territories, waters, seeds, livestock and biodiversity are in the hands of those of us who produce food.

Ke Kalahea operates a fiscally responsible organization, which ensures our ability to continue to serve the university well.

This accessibility ensures a cross-disciplinary approach to nano-related research that helps ideas and activities to cross-pollinate, mature, and evolve over time into the pathways of scientific investigation and discovery that will help shape the future of our society.

VFW's Community Service programs are designed to encourage community service and increase civic pride, which ultimately enhances education, improves the environment and ensures the availability of health services for our nations veterans.

This stringent regulatory system ensures the safety of our food, the safety of the products to the environment, to water and to the farm workers that mix, load and apply the products.

In one respect at least the Corporation acts as the superior body: it imposes on the House of Commons a figure called the remembrancer: an official lobbyist who sits behind the Speaker ’ s chair and ensures that, whatever our elected representatives might think, the City ’ s rights and privileges are protected.

This ensures that the advanced military skills taught to the SFSG are maintained in the other two regular battalions.

The “ purity of the teaching ” according to the Maharishi ensures that the TM technique as it was originally taught is available and effective over time.

According to all the traditional schools of jurisprudence, faith ( imān ) ensures salvation.

Also, unlike the traditional master-apprentice model of teaching where a student would follow his instructor for several years or even a lifetime, the IWTA's structured approach ensures all students receive a complete WT education at each grade level.

* The Quebec Act ensures the loyalty of the seigneurs and the clergy to the new regime by guaranteeing the traditional language, civil law, and faith of the subjects.

Thus, orthogonal sampling ensures that the ensemble of random numbers is a very good representative of the real variability, LHS ensures that the ensemble of random numbers is representative of the real variability whereas traditional random sampling ( sometimes called brute force ) is just an ensemble of random numbers without any guarantees.

On the other hand, the random nature of shotgun sequencing ensures that many of these organisms, which would otherwise go unnoticed using traditional culturing techniques, will be represented by at least some small sequence segments.

In addition, the society ensures that its members are properly trained in all areas of trial advocacy and courtroom etiquette by keeping all members apprised of traditional and modern trial techniques.

This provides the important improvement of converting traditional Prolog-typical run-time errors to compiler warnings, which ensures a better robustness of the finished applications.

An academic index ensures that athletes are truly representative of and integrated with the rest of the student body.

Some would object to their classification as " self-help " literature, as with " Deborah Tannen's denial of the self-help role of her books " so as to maintain her academic credibility, aware of the danger that " writing a book that becomes a popular success ... all but ensures that one's work will lose its long-term legitimacy.

The preservation of ships in museums ensures that ancient and historic vessels are preserved for posterity in optimum conditions and are available for academic study and for public education and interest.

The CLS itself has stated that " the primary means of accessing the CLS is through a system of peer review, which ensures that the proposed science is of the highest quality and permits access to the facility to any interested researcher, regardless of regional, national, academic, industrial or governmental affiliation.

The Academic Council represents the academic community of the College of Europe and ensures the maintenance and development of high level teaching activities and research.

The interweaving of academic buildings and areas for relaxation — green lawns and trees and cultural spots — on the compact campus ensures the enjoyment of the educational resources.

* It promotes and carries on research activities, in pursuit of excellence and strategic relevance within the national and international ambit, in the frame of European cooperation and integration ; in cooperation with academic research and with other private and public organizations, ensures the dissemination of results inside the country ;

Several issues from each newspaper's production schedule are randomly selected to be judged, which ensures that to be competitive for a Pacemaker, a publication must show consistent quality over an entire academic year.