Sentences with phrase «between shifting cultures»

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According to Bahns, the importance of these particular variables may very well shift from person to person as well as between cultures.

«I loved all of the bits that you get to experience in between places — that subtle shift in culture, climate, landscape, and people along the way,» she tells mbg.

Researchers say this shift in thinking can drive profound changes in school culture, re-establishing the trust between teacher and student that is a precondition of learning.

Breaking down traditional silos between reading class and content area instruction to make all educators responsible for student literacy is another important shift in school culture being spearheaded by principals, say experts like Marcie Craig Post, executive director of the International Literacy Foundation, formerly the International Reading Association.

Heads need to change between 30 and 50 per cent of the teaching staff at a failing secondary school in their first three years if they want to see a successful «culture shift», according to new research into the behaviour of successful turnaround heads.

Other ways school culture reflects Meaningful Student Involvement include, but are not limited to, educators maintaining a substantial focus on student involvement even when students appear to be disinterested; gradual or radical shifts in student - adult relationships to reflect higher perceptions of students and the elements of Student / Adult Partnerships introduced earlier in this book; and visually observable aspects, including relaxed conversations among students and adults about education and school improvement; verbal and written reflection shared among students and adults; and rituals reflecting Meaningful Student Involvement, including committee participation, Non-Violent Communication between students and adults; and student orientation programs led by students and adults.

Utilizing fragments of imagery borrowed from popular culture, Arturo Herrera creates collages, sculptures, and wall paintings that lie on the shifting border between legibility and abstraction.

Startling juxtapositions also exist as the pedestal of 1950's beauty is shifted in a sinister collaboration between beauty and monstrosity in Javier Piñón's Medusa collages, while Quisqueya Henriquez's collages play with the perceived heightened masculinity of Latin cultures by manipulating symbolic male images.

By shifting contexts — from China to Jerusalem — these installations reflect commonalities between these two civilizations, whose cultures developed concurrently over several thousand years on the eastern and western edges of Asia,» said James S. Snyder, Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Israel Museum.

Through performance, sculpture, video and poetry, the artists problematize the shifting relationship between culture and nature, questioning our ideas about communality and progress.

Eliza Robertson succeeds in imagining the world afresh, Hanif Kureishi takes a long hard look at the business of creativity, and Thomas Grant charts the seismic shift in British culture between 1960 and 1984

In the period between Pindell's rejection and now, several black artists have risen to prominence by resolutely working with the black figure, shifting it from the margins of culture.

As Prager oscillates between these shifting points of view and duality of artifice and reality, she breaks the «fourth wall,» an invisible barrier between the stage and audience, creating a liminal space that invites consideration of how we absorb notions of truth and fiction within visual culture.

Shot in Thailand, where the movie was filmed, and digitally manipulated into a cluster of islands — with the colors subtly shifted to all but erase the distinction between sea and sky — the piece is an elegant pop - culture homage as well as an atmospheric tour de force.

Taking Domanović's interest in both the development of technology and the history of vernacular cultures in the former Yugoslavia, Lina Džuverović draws parallels between the unregulated, chaotic developments of urban spaces and the incongruities of the fast - shifting nature of the Internet.

The exhibition examines a paradigm shift in culture and the visual arts between the early 1960s and the mid ‑ 1980s, which articulates a counter-narrative to the rhetoric of developmentalism, resulting in early instances of decolonial thought in the artistic practices in the region.

The exhibition, which is on view from April 2017 — March 2018, asks: as technology becomes more invisible and genetic engineering more conceivable, how do the delineations between nature and culture shift and transform?

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29 / CSRwire / - The collision of technology, business, politics, and culture - with a spotlight on the shifting compact between business and society - takes center stage at NewCo Shift Forum, February 26 - 28th, 2018 at the St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco.

Improving relationships between Crowns / other court staff and defence lawyers and a general shift in the prevailing culture of the court.