Sentences with phrase «applied cultural studies»

She graduated in applied cultural studies at the University of Lüneburg, and holds a Phd in art history and criticism from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

In The Heart of the Question: The Writings and Paintings of Howardena Pindell (1997), a collection of her seminal essays, she applies cultural studies to the art world and also details her keen assessments of aesthetics, gender and race in art institutions around the world, and many social concerns.

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Though often mistaken as one man's prescription for what should be taught in school, Cultural Literacy was a pioneering study of the history of education theory as applied in our schools — and it came to the rather damning conclusion that those schools had wrongly forsaken the importance of transmitting knowledge in the classroom; the academic failures were not the result of moral or character imperfections but of knowledge deficits.

Dziembowski gained her first practical experience during her studies of applied cultural sciences at the University of Lüneburg as a member of the student curatorial team for the exhibition «Auf Bewährung.

Dr. Hill is an applied social psychologist who studies the influence of social, cultural, and historical context on gender and sexuality.

Their use of a ROC curve to identify the best cut point is an improvement over many cross cultural studies that simply apply Western cut points.

Patent protection is not automatic and patents must be applied for by the Australian Industrial Property Organisation, as defined by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Our Culture: Our Future, Report on Australian Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights, M Frankel and T Janke, 1998, p 565.

Our comparative, multivocal ethnographic study of teachers in five U.S. cities in a number of early childhood settings suggests that immigrant teachers often experience difficulty applying their cultural knowledge to the education and care of young children of immigrants because they face a dilemma between their pedagogical training and their cultural knowledge; between the expectations of their fellow teachers and of parents; and between the goals of being culturally responsive to children, families, and their community and being perceived as professional by their fellow teachers and their superiors.

To help readers apply best practices, this book gives them case studies of professionals successfully helping students and families from diverse cultural backgrounds.