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He had been a unionist essentialist; she was a novice atheist.

Many modern essentialists claim that right and wrong are moral boundaries which are individually constructed.

The assimilationist thrust was, and still is, through and through essentialist.

Essentialist RE focuses on what is essential educationally for each pupil.

Essentialist RE takes seriously the concerns of well-intentioned people within the three major models outlined.

Essentialist RE seeks to go to the heart of the matter with regard to what religion really and distinctively is about.

Essentialists view such identities as ontological categories defining social actors, and not the result of social action.

Demiashkevich compared the essentialists to the different viewpoints of the Progressive Education Association.

The need for a justification for institutionalized racial discrimination led to the "biological essentialist" framework.

David Oderberg (2007) takes issue with other philosophers, including Ellis to a degree, who claim to be essentialists.

On the other hand Essentialists defend the existence of real essences that define the individual's expressions, and social learned aspects are only secondary.

Essentialist RE therefore encourages a particular teaching style: a method which homes in on what is of central importance and relevance for each pupil.

But don't get me wrong, Mr. Jukes declares, I am not one of those wicked "essentialists."

For contemporary essentialists, however, the characteristic that all existents have in common is the power to exist, and this potentiality defines the "uncreated" Essence.

We are natural-born essentialists."

Later that night, a group of Essentialists storm the Risian Solarium, armed with phaser rifles.

In his book, Demiashkevich labels some specific educators (including William C. Bagley) as "essentialists."

Essentialist RE stresses both the E and the R of RE.

Plato was one of the first essentialists, believing in the concept of ideal forms, an abstract entity of which individual objects are mere facsimilies.

He, nevertheless, cites Esteven Epstein that compares the controversy between essentialists and constructionists to the general nature versus nurture debate.

"Gender essentialists," notably Catherine MacKinnon, have turned workplaces into battlegrounds by insisting that almost any sexual interaction between a man and a woman is coercive.

As one of the main representatives of essentialists he cites John Boswell, and Michel Foucault as a prominent constructionist.

Essentialist RE can retain all the important and helpful features listed in Table 4.1 without carrying the price-tag of those in the opposite column which are increasingly today being seen as unacceptable.

And we are likely to abandon the sphere of the concrete to the positivists and that of theory to the essentialists, rather than to theorize the relationship of the two at a higher level.

Racial formation theory examines race as a dynamic social construct with inherent structural barriers, ideologies, and individual actions, whereas the biological essentialist blames individual deficiency for racial marginalization and oppression.