Meaning of praxis in English

praxis

noun [ U ]

social science specialized

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/ˈpræk.sɪs/ us

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/ˈpræk.sɪs/

the process of using a theory or something that you have learned in a practical way:

She is interested in both the theory and praxis of criminology.

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(Definition of praxis from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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The key to understanding the difference is its relation to the 'cultural praxis of everyday life'.

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In the new popular curriculum, both analysis and investigation as well as praxis would seem to be central in the integral formation of the student.

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The conclusion of the book is the desire for an 'ethical praxis that disrupts horizons'.

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The argument is primarily based upon an academic and legal discourse and lacks positive references to the 'cultural praxis of everyday life'.

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These conditions lie beneath or behind or before any actual praxis (or, usually, several possible praxes) in a building.

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We were promised a socially relevant geography, linking theory with the daily praxis of commuting, migration, spatial interaction, environmental perception.

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These institutions naturally take the universalistic, scholarly discourses as point of reference and are therefore often far removed from the cultural praxis of everyday life.

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This is truly an area in which a 'chasm' exists between programme and praxis.

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However, suggesting that music education should occupy a middle ground, a 'space-between, praxis guided by phronesis' (p. 41) is a compelling one for our times.

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It is itself among these more primitive representations, setting the horizons for praxis.

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The burden is lifted if we conceive social praxis as more than a cluster of utterances.

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The questions regarding the praxis, aesthetics and semantics of performance with image and sound may, ultimately, provide the greater challenge.

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Our particular working party celebrated the enormous extent to which our teaching contributes to our understanding of our praxis.

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Cognitive domains include memory, orientation, language and praxis while the noncognitive domains include mood state and behavioral changes.

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If feminist archaeology took a politically informed but epistemologically disinterested position, it would not contribute to present and future social praxis.

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