Ethnologists in these countries tended to focus on differentiating among local ethnolinguistic groups, documenting local folk culture, and representing the prehistory of what has become a nation through various forms of public education ( eg, museums of several kinds ).

* Kleiwerks-International organization recognized for their unique contribution to modern earthen and natural building techniques throughout the world, their focus is on education through hands on experience.

Alcott believed that early education must draw out " unpremeditated thoughts and feelings of the child " and emphasized that infancy should primarily focus on enjoyment.

His psychological theories pertain to education as they focus on the development of object teaching, that is, he felt that individuals best learned through experiences and through a direct manipulation and experience of objects.

Secular perennialists espouse the idea that education should focus on the historical development of a continually developing common western base of human knowledge and art, the timeless value of classic thought on central human issues by landmark thinkers, and revolutionary ideas critical to historical western paradigm shifts or changes in world view.

" Instructional theories focus on how to structure material for promoting the education of human beings, and more recently Edtech has been gaining recognition for helping to develop this area.

Early into the administration, Bush made it known that she would focus much of her attention on education.

In the late 1970s, Lyon & Healy was purchased by Steinway & Sons ( then owned by CBS ), and consequently closed their retail stores in the Chicago area, that had been selling sheet music and musical instruments, and their education departments — to focus on the harp division.

During the last few years a university college has been established and the city is now trying to focus on education, arts and culture.

When he moved to Israel, Kahane declared that he would focus on Jewish education.

It advocates universal education with a focus on developing the proletariat with knowledge, class consciousness, and understanding the historical development of communism.

Throughout the school's first half-century, education and teacher training was the primary focus of the small regional school.

Outcome-based education is a model of education that rejects the traditional focus on what the school provides to students, in favor of making students demonstrate that they " know and are able to do " whatever the required outcomes are.

Though it is claimed the focus is not on " inputs ", OBE is criticised for being used to justify increased funding requirements, increased graduation and testing requirements, and additional preparation, homework, and continuing education time spent by students, parents and teachers in supporting learning.

Opponents say that many educational agencies have adopted outcomes which focus too much on attitudes ( e. g., " Students will enjoy physical education class ") rather than academic content.

The Classical education movement advocates a form of education based in the traditions of Western culture, with a particular focus on education as understood and taught in the Middle Ages.

" Unlike the other Colonial colleges that existed in 1743 — Harvard, William and Mary, and Yale — Franklin's new school would not focus merely on education for the clergy.

UPEACE The Hague will focus on education and research at the forefront of peace studies, closely cooperating with academic and policy-oriented institutions in The Hague region.

Students at UPEACE receive a high quality education in a unique atmosphere with a focus on multicultural perspectives, rigorous theory and practical applications.

The St Albans campus on McKecknie Street St Albans is the University's health and education hub, with focus on psychology, nursing, arts, paramedic and biomedical science.

To mitigate this effect, the IDA adopted an economic plan of action which established organizations to improve education and healthcare, with a focus on reducing poverty across Asian nations in ways that are compatible with local culture.

In spite of these criticisms, federal government support has made abstinence the de facto focus of sex education in the United States, so that opponents frequently adopt the line that abstinence education is acceptable only if it is combined with other methods, such as instruction in the use of condoms, and easy availability thereof.

This is not the most general situation of a Cartesian product of a family of sets, where a same set can occur more than once as a factor ; however, one can focus on elements of such a product that select the same element every time a given set appears as factor, and such elements correspond to an element of the Cartesian product of all distinct sets in the family.

* The Ark of the Covenant is the main focus of Steven Spielberg's 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the same prop also appears in a cameo in a later sequel in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

The focus of the 154 sonnet series appears to narrate the author's relationships with three characters: the Fair Youth, the Dark Lady or Mistress, and the Rival Poet.

A Venus Aerobot Technology Experiment ( VEBTEX ) has been considered as a technology validation experiment, but the focus appears to have been more on full operational missions.

Little information about the reign of Osiris appears in Egyptian sources ; the focus is on his death and the events that follow.

The idea is based on simple principles of projective geometry: moving synchronously and in opposite directions the X-ray tube and the film, which are connected together by a rod whose pivot point is the focus ; the image created by the points on the focal plane appears sharper, while the images of the other points annihilate as noise.

While the focus of this entry currently stresses the depiction of the Madonna in panel painting, it should be noted that her image also appears in mural decoration, whether mosaics or fresco painting on the exteriors and interior of sacred buildings.

A focus on creative product usually appears in attempts to measure creativity ( psychometrics, see below ) and in creative ideas framed as successful memes.

Though Theodore I Laskaris could not oppose this later campaign, it appears that Henry decided it best to focus on his European problems, for he sought a truce with Theodore I in 1214, and amicably divided Latin from Nicean possessions to the favour of Nicea.

There is a splash of red which at first glance appears to be blood, but which turns out to be yet another poppy out of focus in the foreground.

After the 7 July 2005 London bombings, Friedman called for the U. S. State Department to " shine a spotlight on hate speech wherever it appears ," to create a quarterly " War of Ideas Report, which would focus on those religious leaders and writers who are inciting violence against others.

The focus upon the gap between the premises and conclusion present in the above passage appears different from Hume's focus upon the circular reasoning of induction.

The focus of intelligence agencies appears to be moving slowly from managing internal dissent to focusing on external threats and support of the nation's democracy.

Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus ( some more so than others ), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white ( ranging from warm brown to deep blue ) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface.

* Koschei appears as the focus of the song Unavenged by Random Encounter

The decoration, which appears to have been very similar on all sides of the shrine, features Akhenaten and Tiye making offerings to the Aten, with a focus on the king rather than his mother.

* Depth of field, in photography, the distance in front of and beyond the subject that appears to be in focus

The motto which appears on most current University of Bradford publications is Making Knowledge Work, which relates to the institution's focus on courses that lead to employment.

Her approach to teaching appears to be to trust the folk wisdom of the locals when it comes to practical things like birthing and medicine, and focus on such things as crystals, magic circles and soothing chants to help matters along.

The developers considered one particular scene in which effects are used well: When Max has lucid dreams, the screen appears fuzzy and out of focus.

The regulation appears among a brief miscellany of regulations concerning ethical behaviour, covering issues such as consideration of the deaf, an " evil tongue ", not bearing grudges, the impartiality of justice, and leaving gleanings for the poor demonstrate similar concerns against exploiting individuals, but focus on different issues.

It appears to focus on the content of what is said and not on how it is said.

This day's focus will be Travel, a feature that currently appears in Saturday's main news section.