The theory helped economists understand the interconnectedness of various sectors of an economy.
It wasn't just a matter of introducing new authors – Flannery O'Connor, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich – but rather that she encouraged us to think differently, to understand the interconnectedness of things, to find the story behind the story.
The course will use a systems thinking approach and systems thinking tools to examine and understand the interconnectedness of the social, economic, environmental, political and economic influences and consequences that affect food and public health.
Luckily, as Ms. Zakaria suggests, women themselves — and the grass-roots women's groups that have been working with them in complex cultural contexts for many years — understand the interconnectedness of these issues in advancing women's rights.
The tragic story of the life, and death, of Marjan, the lion at Kabul's zoo (Reporter's Notebook, Feb. 4), brought to mind this quotation from Mohandas K. Gandhi, a man who well understood the interconnectedness of animal and human liberation: "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated".
Course syllabi were examined using grounded theory techniques that allowed us to identify how faculty were addressing information and data information literacies in their courses, but it also enabled us to understand the interconnectedness of these literacies to other departmental intentions for student learning, such as developing a professional identity or learning to conduct original research.
To that end, he will be attending the Summer Ecosystem Experience for Undergraduates in Brazil, where he is eager to understand the interconnectedness of global resources and economies through the prism of the ecosystems he will study in the Atlantic rainforest.
If we can teach visitors to understand evolution, we teach them to really understand the interconnectedness of life, as well as the interconnectedness of the scientific disciplines that produce evolutionary knowledge.
Additionally, long term follow-up studies are needed to understand the interconnectedness of interpersonal violence across the life course for AI/AN populations, including common risk and protective factors and changing vulnerabilities from childhood through later life.
Within this context it is easy to understand the interconnectedness between trauma that goes unaddressed and the pipeline that goes from school-to-prison.
