Sentences with phrase «cultural processes such»

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In the process, it's also given a spit shine to what's always been popular about the city, such as its music, food and other cultural assets, leading to a reawakening of all things New Orleans.

The process of globalization tends to bring about a homogeneity of cultural behaviours throughout the world, at least in certain aspects of life such as in food, dress, leisure, music, and sports.

Such processes deny all cultural memories and reduce the richness of life into images of mass consumption.

«18 In the present context of globalization it is not only necessary to reject «the Western pretence of universalism,» writes Rajni Kothari, «but also for non-Western cultures to seek answers to their problems from within and, in the process, not only provide pluralism in techno - cultural system but, through such pluralism, help Westerners themselves to deal with the new crop of problems they now encounter.

The City should provide planning and community organizing resources to organizations such as the Chinatown Working Group, which has brought together many of Chinatown's diverse stakeholders, in order to allow them to undertake a community - based process for meeting Chinatown's traffic concerns and related planning issues, with cultural and linguistic sensitivity to the area's unique character.

Over the past several months, Department of Environment and Planning Commissioner Maria Whyte has worked closely with the cultural community to recreate such a process.

Sometimes people of different nationalities clash in the negotiation process, and in no employment sector do we have such cultural and ethnic diversity as the sciences.

Instead, the academics conclude that other factors, such as upbringing and socio - cultural processes, are more likely to play a greater role in religious beliefs.

«First, those with higher information processing capacity are more likely to enjoy highbrow cultural practices, such as arts participation, and be university graduates.

This observation coincides with the theory of neuronal recycling, developed by Stanislas Dehaene, and which stipulates that advanced cultural cognitive processes, such as mathematics, recycle ancient evolutionary brain functions, such as a sense of number, space and time.

These are skills of three kinds: cross-cultural efficacy, an interest and positive disposition toward cultural difference; foreign language skills; and knowledge of world history, geography and global processes such as trade, international law, environmental and health challenges.

So, in order to provide suitable hosts it is important that they have sufficient information provided, which should include: name, age and gender of pupils, plus any special requirements such as food, medical or cultural issues; minimum standards of accommodation required; information on the dynamic risk management process to ensure it can operate effectively; the visiting school's code of conduct; and contact numbers, including emergency contacts and medical insurance information.

● Oversee the implementation of the educational vision across all campuses, and ensure schools are producing amazing outcomes for students ● Ensure all schools meet their academic and cultural goals ● Build a strong, collaborative team of principals ● Ensure schools are operationally strong, aesthetically beautiful and clean, within budget, and well - organized ● Oversee performance management systems and the hiring process across the schools ● Manage the college teams in supporting students as they prepare for college ● Provide individual development and management to school principals through one - on - one meetings, coaching, modeling, planning, and feedback ● Lead regular professional learning for school leaders (topics such as instructional leadership, personnel management, school operations, data analysis, school culture, and family investment) ● Study and analyze data on an ongoing basis ● Work with school principals to develop and implement action plans based on academic results

Of Guatemalan - American descent, Benjamin witnessed the effects of transnational processes such as NAFTA, the drug war and deportations from both sides of the border, motivating him to join Americorps as a Community Health Instructor and to study political thinking and photography at Bard College before transferring and receiving his B.A in socio - cultural anthropology with an Honors Thesis at Columbia University.

Despite this gradual tilt to a more privatized institution, many positive aspects of the socialist ideal, such as partnership in the overall community, a democratic leadership and decision - making process and full access to the various educational, cultural / religious, health and welfare services, are still preserved.

Hohendahl considers such key aspects of the process in Germany as the rise of liberalism and nationalism, the delineation of the borders of German literature, the idea of its history, the understanding of its cultural funct...

It is envisaged as leading to management of all resources in such a way that economic, social, and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological diversity, and life support system.»

Added feature includes witnessing various cultural highlights, such as local rice farmers tending their fields, visits to an authentic Balinese home where you can learn more about the agrarian ways of life, such as coconut oil processing, to making Balinese flower tray offerings and a variety of woven coconut leaf crafts.

Spanning media such as painting, graphics, collage, textile art, and sculpture, Ringgold's work captivates through the precise and masterly use of materials and artistic processes as well as the integration of their cultural and political significance.

For Tuesday Evenings, Cuevas's presentation is centered on research - based projects formally developed through the use of socio - cultural strategies, including actions such as marking a crossing point in the Chihuahuan desert at the US - Mexico border, or multidisciplinary processes such as the simultaneous collaboration with the SFMOMA and public libraries around the subject of public knowledge.

These still - lives are an allegory that sheds light on the «practical» process of photography so that additional factors, such as moral, cultural, artistic, emotional, etc. are referred to in the image.

With such progression come ideas of space, duration, viewing, and the necessary destabilization of this triad — a process of unsettling that is made all the more urgent by the museum's «cultural confinement,» to dust off Robert Smithson's handy term — a concept acknowledged by Eliasson even as he updates it to speak to the long - established and more or less pervasive institutional insistence on blinding viewers to their own perceptions.

Asked her feeling about the failure of the original show, which, with more than 100 works, would have been the largest collaboration between Cuban and United States museums in more than 50 years, she said, «I don't want to call it disappointment because it's been such a long process that we're hopeful that it's going to continue to foster cultural exchange.»

Flood has been making his lace paintings since the early 90s; their process of manufacture and slightly kitschy image derived from actual lace encourages us to look at these seductive beauties with a jaundiced eye; 2) The exhibition includes site - specific installations made of absurd pseudo-posters, multi-media, ephemera, collages, text paintings, and documents from the last decade that remix pop culture and critique systems of mass cultural distributions such as rock videos and albums.

Fernández's conceptually - based, research intensive process of art making often contains many layers of diverse cultural and historical references; she uses devices such as proportion and unconventional material to draw the viewer into her work, evoking an individualised experience of engagement that prompts questions of both place and way - finding.

Fernández's conceptually - based, research - intensive process of art making often contains many layers of diverse cultural and historical references; she uses devices such as proportion and unconventional material to draw the viewer into her work, evoking an individualized experience of engagement that prompts questions of both place and way - finding.

The study presents both correlational and experimental evidence confirming that cultural cognition shapes individuals» beliefs about the existence of scientific consensus, and the process by which they form such beliefs, relating to climate change, the disposal of nuclear wastes, and the effect of permitting concealed possession of handguns.

Self - help groups such as Toastmasters have reinforced this cultural change process.

But that's a cultural shift of such a degree that it could require a generation to process, and we may not have that much time.

NOTE: Eligible courses include but are not limited to the 2007, 2009 and 2011 Meaningful Child Participation in Family Justice Processes courses presented by IICRD and CLEBC, and may cover such topics as: effects of separation and divorce on parents and children; communication skill development of children; family dynamics; adult and child dynamics; parent and child bonding and attachment theory; child development; empirical research on developmental needs, children's ages, gender systems and structural family theory; opinions and effects of parenting arrangements; ethno ‐ cultural family dynamics; family violence, power imbalance, and control issues; alcohol and substance abuse issues.

St. Thomas Elementary School, Tifton, GA Library Assistant, 8/2010 to Present • Receive and respond to students» inquiries regarding books, periodicals and other information • Assist students in locating choice of books and performing online research • Escort students to choice of aisles and inquire if they need additional help • Perform circulation desk activities such as checking out books • Follow up on overdue books by contacting students and class teachers in case of no show • Take new students» information and create and issue library cards • Process library books by placing barcodes and sensitization strips on them • Promote library services by reaching out to students through workshops and book readings • Plan and install cultural exhibits for library events • Coordinate with book vendors and suppliers and ensure a constant supply of books • Ascertain cleanliness and neatness of bookshelves and ensure that any torn books are repaired or replaced immediately

Temp hopefuls must qualify by passing tests and screening processes to measure their abilities in areas such as technology, adaptability and corporate cultural fit.

Research suggests that this approach is critical if capacity building initiatives are to be sustainable.12 Such an approach can also facilitate greater cultural awareness and understanding on the part of non-Indigenous policy implementers, thereby assisting in the broader reconciliation process.

Examples of healing processes might include women - specific and men - specific groups; story - telling circles; cultural activities; (150) understanding the impacts of issues such as racism, colonisation and identity on Indigenous well - being; the use of mentors and / or elders to provide support to individuals; and retreats or residential - style components where participants spend a period of time going through the healing process, usually on a spiritually significant site, away from their families and communities.

For example, those Indigenous groups in more remote regions, such as those in Cape York, Queensland who have had Aboriginal freehold lands returned to them under state land rights regimes may be in a better position to achieve their cultural, social, and economic aspirations than even those who have been successful in a native title process.

Neural activity within brain regions innervated by serotonergic neural pathways, such as the human amygdala, may serve as another likely information processing mechanism involved in the storage and transmission of cultural values of individualism and collectivism.

Suggested Topics: Developmental differences such as theoretical orientation, cultural differences, difficulties with supervisees, discipline policies and due process, transference and counter - transference.

They use strengths - based processes when engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men, as well as stimulating the re-emergence of cultural practices such as yarning circles, stone knapping, reading landscapes, and healing traumas from the past.

I also consider how the process of negotiating Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) and alternate land processes, such as state and territory land rights and cultural heritage legislation, can contribute to lateral violence within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

We will demonstrate and practice cross-cultural EFT process interventions such as cultural conjectures, vulnerability - matching or feeling - in.

To help families process these complex emotions, we created four special Sesame Street episodes covering such topics as coping with loss, cultural diversity, and appreciating firefighters.

The principles address issues such as recognition and respect, Indigenous involvement in environmental management, cultural heritage protection, and the need for developers to respect the integrity of Indigenous decision making processes.

From a socio - cultural viewpoint, cognitively responsive behaviours (e.g. maintaining versus redirecting interests, rich verbal input) are thought to facilitate higher levels of learning because they provide a structure or scaffold for the young child's immature skills, such as developing attentional and cognitive capacities.9 Responsive behaviours in this framework promote joint engagement and reciprocity in the parent - child interaction and help a child learn to assume a more active and ultimately independent role in the learning process.10 Responsive support for the child to become actively engaged in solving problems is often referred to as parental scaffolding, and is also thought to be key for facilitating children's development of self - regulation and executive function skills, behaviours that allow the child to ultimately assume responsibility for their well - being.11, 12

The Principles address issues such as recognition and respect, Indigenous involvement in environmental management, cultural heritage protection, and the need for developers to respect the integrity of Indigenous decision making processes.

However, whilst this process has begun in many countries, the implementation has been complex and several studies have revealed important difficulties with the placement of children in foster care, such as lack of motivation to foster due to cultural reasons, difficulties in supervision and support for foster parents leading to breakdowns and instability in placements and the overwhelmed foster care systems (Maluccio et al. 2006; Mapp 2011; UNICEF 2010).

The absence of appropriate internal and external decision - making processes in native title not only delays the determination of outcomes, it provides opportunities for latent conflict (such as intra / inter-family disputes, economic disparity, and historical and contemporary cultural issues that centre on identity) to surface and further complicate and delay reaching the best possible outcome.

The number of Chinese diaspora already settled in areas such as Orange County and the San Gabriel Valley attract a great deal of foreign investment because cultural and language similarities make the purchase process easier.