A report in The Times described the event as "heavily freighted with meaning" in light of Gibson's role in shaping conceptions of cyberspace and virtual worlds.
In the context of first-year teachers, the influences of effective professional development programmes to shape teachers' conceptions and beliefs cannot be understated.
By focussing upon (local) sexual practices, this volume analyzes the ways in which science, medicine, technology, and planning rationalities shape (new) conceptions of sexuality.
The authors conclude by discussing the implications of their results for how science laboratories are taught, suggesting that incorporation of strategies that more closer mirror authentic processes of science research might better shape students' conceptions about how science is practiced.
French thinkers have been especially influential in shaping modern conceptions of citizenship – notably the revolution's concept of civic patriotism (based on adhesion to common values rather than ethnicity), the notion of the general interest, and the vision of the state's enabling and enlightening power, embodied in the holistic philosophy of Jacobinism.
In predicting this future, Gibson can be said to have helped shape our conception of the internet.
James demonstrates their importance in shaping Western conceptions of the East (and vice versa), and he rejects the charge of Orientalism, insisting that his subjects were not mere tourists but sincerely engaged in translating one world to another.
In a section on Atlantic-inspired artwork, for instance, we're told that the eighth-century Gaelic poet Rumann wrote one of the earliest poetic considerations of the Atlantic, but Winchester never tells us how the poem shaped historic conceptions of the sea.
A prime example is Thomas Aquinas's participation in the rediscovery of Aristotelian categories (e.g., substance, quantity, quality, and relation), even though he exceeded and transformed them in the service of theological, ethical, and sacramental teachings that in turn shaped doctrinal conceptions and formulations in the Catholic church of the West.
Legal rules and political and social stability both intervene in this stage and shape the conception of the scope of legal power and the legal system.
