As Ian Manners has argued, the EU would be a normative power in the sense that it repeatedly attempts to "shape conceptions of the normal" through practices of "diffusion" of its best practices and its effort of capacity building in third countries (Manner, 2002).
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.
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.
Additionally, a detailed analysis of the different sources of students' understanding of ocean acidification and climate change, such as course work, social networks, family and friends, and news media, might reveal the perceived value of these sources in shaping their conceptions.
But the portraits composed by Aristophanes, Xenophon, and Plato are the ones that have survived intact, and they are therefore the ones that must play the greatest role in shaping our conception of what Socrates was like.
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.
In the context of first-year teachers, the influences of effective professional development programmes to shape teachers' conceptions and beliefs cannot be understated.
For his role as Allen Ginsberg in the new film "Kill Your Darlings," Radcliffe got to explore what it really means to be a queer writer and part of a group of intellectuals that fundamentally shaped modern conceptions about queer and American identities.
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.
