Sentences with phrase «active cultural engagement»

It struck me that was there was something new going on in the combination of LaHaye's theology of cultural pessimism and his forming of a coalition for active cultural engagement.

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Consisting of several new faces as well as loyal supporters from the original founding of the program in the 1990s, this Council counts among its members active artists, cultural philanthropists, and arts educators who put civic engagement and arts education advocacy among their highest priorities.

Carl Wagan promotes active engagement with book - based cultural activity such as self - publishing, zine - making, screenprinting, and bookbinding.

But to promulgate the glib cultural ethnography such details suggest is to disregard the work Altoon produced in just a decade of active engagement, from the late»50s until his death.

His need for an art of active cultural and political engagement can be traced to his studies with Joseph Beuys at the art academy in Düsseldorf.

Since 2013, together with Julie Crooks and Dominique Fontaine, she is responsible for the Of Africa project, a multiplatform project aimed to support a sustained and long - term promotion of the cultural and creative diversity of Africa and its diaspora through an engagement with the collections in the museum and in dialogue with artists and creators active today.

In 1967, Beuys helped to establish the German Student Party in an effort to promote peaceful protest.37 Posed on the precipice of the great cultural upheaval of the 1968 student revolts — which called for the reform of educational institutions while taking a critical position toward the Vietnam War, the governing parties, and Germany's failure to confront its own past — Beuys's engagement with the German Student Party demonstrates his increasingly active engagement in the political sphere.

All children and young people need to have access to a diverse range of age - appropriate, low - cost recreation, sport and cultural activities to support their active engagement and social participation.

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