Sentences with phrase «global contexts»

Every year, millions of Canadians take part in Earth Day to help address environmental issues in both local and global contexts.

These properties make it particularly useful in diverse cultural and global contexts, where it can easily be molded to the real lives of real clients.»

That said, geophysics unequivocally demonstrate that in long - term global contexts of (say) minimum 10 - million years, solar - driven atmospheric - oceanic conditions reflect the underlying reality not of «climate» but of plate tectonics.

This activity report presents a record of the Seminar held from 27 to 29 July 2009 in Paris, focused on the role of education in addressing climate change, linking the local, regional and global contexts with particular emphasis on the challenges faced by Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

Furthermore, performative gestures and practices - in the context of private, public and civic space - have been subjected to forms of aesthetic, ethical and political critique that, to date, see them in isolation from the evolving global contexts that underwrite international developments in performance art.

Inspired by Gustav Metzger's observation that «every step in nature is a moment of grace», this exhibition presents the work of artists who re-use and transform materials in their work in order to comment on commodity and consumption in both local and global contexts.

It is a linguistic fact that comes out of specific cultural traditions of painting reflecting both local and global contexts.

She is the Founding Editor of The Chart, an arts journal that aims to connect Maine artists to national and global contexts while offering specific regional perspectives to larger conversations.

«Ultimately, the goal is to expand the understanding of the arts of Africa through landmark acquisitions and innovative exhibition strategies that link together historical, modern and contemporary African arts, and placing them in local, transnational, and global contexts.

It encourages a broad range of perspectives and approaches within an interdisciplinary framework encompassing both local and global contexts.

Jaar's situated installation critically examines the history of international representation to invoke expansive questions about the volatility and tension of continuously transforming contemporary global contexts.

Having experienced and witnessed first - hand one of the turn of century's everlasting dilemma — immigration and the economic / political instability in Ecuador / South America, Peñafiel brings the ambiguity of personal experience to global contexts...

''... a guided tour through conceptual territory that has rarely been mapped so expertly... this collection should be perused from beginning to end, as suspense irresistibly increases while roaming the global contexts and learning about the growing urgencies at stake.»

• Basic knowledge in the functioning of different languages in local, national and global contexts can help to inculcate diversity in writing.

Her areas of expertise include education policy and leadership, expanded learning, and systems - level change in both national and global contexts.

Built a strong foundation of identity through an ongoing process of wayfinding to engage in local, national, and global contexts

apply relevant sociological theories, concepts, evidence and methods accurately to UK contexts and some global contexts using a wide range of subject specific terminology

apply mostly appropriate sociological theories, concepts, evidence, and methods to UK contexts and some global contexts using some appropriate subject specific terminology

His research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions, as well as by demographic trends in local, regional and global contexts.

Teachers have to make sure that they build on the students» skills and knowledge each year in both local and global contexts.

As citizens of the world, students in today's classrooms seek global contexts for learning.

The courses taught at GSU include International Communication, Chinese Media, Politics and Society, and Communication in Global Contexts.

Jesus in Global Contexts by Priscilla Pope - Levison and John R. Levison Westminster / John Knox Press, 232 pages, $ 17.99 A husband and wife team offers a once - over-lightly survey of liberationists, feminists, and others who «do Christology» by construing Jesus according to cultural context.

«We continue to hear from many people on the debate over sexuality that our current Discipline contains language which is contradictory, unnecessarily hurtful, and inadequate for the variety of local, regional and global contexts,» the proposal said.

These two ways of seeing countries within their global contexts are basically identical.

Constantly working in a global context, it was important from quite early on to learn to work with the more challenging elements of different cultures, while at the same time identifying their best factors and making them my own.

Iain Black, president and CEO, Vancouver Board of Trade This budget reflects the type of long - term thinking that needs to be shown in a global context of the need for more free trade, particularly with Asia, South America and Europe.

She strongly resisted breakup of the company, recognizing the global context she was operating in.

«The U.S. stands out in the global context [for] an unusually high ability to carry a large government debt burden,» the study states.

The Global Financial Stability Report provides an assessment of the global financial system and markets, and addresses emerging market financing in a global context.

«Businesses are responding to the global context, moving beyond their basic responsibilities and going further into a strategic opportunity space.

On the more positive side, America's budget problems are fixable — and not so terrible when viewed in a long - term global context.

This year's meeting includes an exploratory session examining the current global context affecting Canada's relationships with Asia, and a consultative session assisting with the development of a Canadian Asia Strategy for the 21st century.

It puts the U.S. market into global context and delivers data on coffee production and consumption, quarterly growth, imports and exports, advertising and demographics.

On the other hand, when put into a global context, the disparities in U.S. supply estimates matter less.

Crude oil exports are also set to rise further, so in a global context, the U.S. Gulf Coast has emerged as one of the most vital energy hubs, meaning that «in some respects, it can be compared to the Strait of Hormuz in that normal operations are too important to fail,» the IEA cautioned.

INDIA»S DEMAND ECONOMY By Udayan Gupta At this month's Global Salon in New York, Hiren Ved, chief investment officer of Mumbai - based investment fund Alchemy Capital Management, discussed the Indian markets and economy in a global context and within...

# 2 The ability to adapt to a global context.

Finally, the explosion to satellite communications in the eighties matched in the most recent years with fiberoptic switching systems and computer processing of cash, words, images, and data — the internetting of global consciousness — has swept up most human endeavors from local names and habitations into the global context of international trademarks, common credit cards, shared diets, world class athletics, and intercontinental rock concert tours.

My dialogues with Third World theologians in EATWOT and my contacts with Koreans in Japan and South Korea have been particularly important in extending my theological perspective to a global context.

It is in this global context that the people takes initiatives for economic justice, for direct participation and intervention in the market process, and for economic actions for sustainable life.

Q.: It strikes me that the global context for triage in the case of famine might admit to ulterior motives for making a selection among potential recipients of aid.

Christian theologians have increasingly come to view their work in a global context that takes seriously the other great religious traditions or Ways of humankind.

Only 21 % of religious adherents in northern Europe have significant personal contact with Christians, according to Christianity in its Global Context 1970 ‐ 2020,...

The Africans who do so in the global context in international meetings are often made to feel like they do nothing but complain.

In this global context the people must take initiatives for economic justice, for direct participation and intervention in the market process, and for economic actions for sustainable life.

• An assertion that indigenous expressions of church were needed and valued if the church was to be God's missionary in every global context.

But any theological rehabilitation of the work ethic must acknowledge the new global context of paid employment.

Furthermore, they must do this testing in the widest possible context — that is, in a global context.

The global context of the church's mission requires apologia to be done in a distinctive way.