Sentences with phrase «by a culture shift»

Millennials are no different from Gen Y, Gen X, or any previous generation when it comes to being affected by a culture shift.

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INDIGENOUS business experts say rapid growth in the sector is forcing a significant culture shift but it is still being restrained by traditional biases.
In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.
Now there are signs that the company is emerging from its funk with a shift driven by a $ 10 billion cost - cutting plan and a promise to create, in McDonald's words, a «culture of productivity.»
It makes fiscal sense if you want to plan for the long - term, but in the Alberta context, it symbolizes an awkward culture shift for a political party that defined itself by this rally cry.
This steady growth shows that craft brewing is part of a profound shift in American beer culture — a shift that will help craft brewers achieve their ambitious goal of 20 percent market share by 2020,» said Bart Watson, chief economist, Brewers Association.
The bible is merely a reflection of stories from other cultures re-packaged to make them more easily digestible by the masses as things shifted to a new power base.
The most important change embodied by progressives is a shift from a basically positive relation to culture to a basically critical one.
It is this shift in how truth is perceived and appropriated that is one of the factors creating resistance to electronic culture by theologians and clergy, whose understanding of faith has been strongly shaped by the characteristics and requirements of print culture in which they were educated and by virtue of which they hold status and power.
(12) The consumer orientation of electronic culture and the expansion of widely advertised and available alternatives has brought a shift away from a committed and sacrificial relationship to organically - integrated communities towards one where as individuals we construct our own individualised networks characterised by tentativeness and usefulness.
When the thickly clotted symbol system of a pre-urban society is replaced by a highly differentiated and individuated urban culture, modalities of religious experience shift.
1) Copenhagen demonstrated that global governance has overreached itself; 2) The crisis provokes a shift away from idealistic globalism, back to pragmatic concerns; 3) «Global consensus» established by «experts» is not and has never been genuine; 4) The institutions of global governance prove unable to resolve their identity crisis and to reform themselves; they are fragmented; 5) Global governance pays the bill for not taking into account non-western cultures and civilisations; 6) Displaying an incapacity to provide real leadership, produce a vision for the world, new ideas / ideologies, global governance opts for a survival approach.
One chapter on shifting religious voting blocs by Lyman Kellstedt and colleagues gives greater detail in support of their article in these pages, «It's the Culture, Stupid!
It is unfortunate that a country of this stature, who rules the world, from the skies like a god, and lacks comprehensive leadership to deal with these pressing issues... where are the Presidents akin to our late leaders that took the initiative and got things done, America has become a cold, hostile place to live, We lack the sense of unity that made us what we are... There are hundreds of thousand unemployed, Why can't the government promote an agency akin to the peace corps, that utilizes the young folks sitting on their a $ $ and make them earn their unemployment check by working in this storm zone, to rehabilitate and get these folks back on their feet... it would promote a culture of selflessness and charity and would without a question cause a paradigm shift in the minds of our youth, This is what makes a nation great!
Indeed, many of the peculiar political, economic, and finally religious shifts that have contributed to the secularized cultures of today have been shaped by elements of these encounters, and (though we shall never know) may have taken place in their own way without what we call the Reformation ever having happened.
Important sociological studies today are showing that the technological cultures of the West, shaped by the secularistic world views derivative of Protestant religious traditions, are dramatically shifting the balance of «intended death» away from homicide to suicide.
By taking a stand, we shift the culture of food in a school.
Our culture has shifted to understand artificial feeding as the norm, when actually so many of the things our babies do are normal but we misinterpret them because the lenses through which we see our babies are smudged by unrealistic expectations.
A new report by the Electoral Reform Society argues that the future for parties can be secured by reaching out beyond traditional memberships, thinking differently about how they relate to other parties and shifting the culture of politics.
«Staff and prisoners still speak a moral language of making a difference but there is a general shift in the Prison Service towards a security - and - efficiency driven management style that risks stifling professional enthusiasm by its process and performance - oriented culture
When then - Assemblymember Vito Lopez stepped down from his party boss post amid a sexual harassment scandal, and was replaced by current Chair Frank Seddio in 2012, it created an opportunity for culture shift throughout the organization and the website was part of that, according to Rizzo.
The most promising chemical — sulforaphane, a naturally occurring compound found in cruciferous vegetables — tamped down glucose production by liver cells growing in culture, and shifted liver gene expression away from a diseased state in diabetic rats.
The shift of manufacturing production away from the United States in recent decades has only exacerbated the situation by draining away a culture of innovation that feeds off the full spectrum of a product's life cycle, from research and development through distribution, they said.
Haidt: I was mostly struck by how much the culture war has shifted to economic issues.
«And by developing a new approach and encouraging different behaviour changes, we hope to start developing a culture shift in the way we think about food.»
It is a bit irresponsible to just linked an NCBI study of diabetes that shows no indication that the Japanese got their diabetes based on their rice based diet, maybe one should also take the diet shift into account: Asian cultures is now catching up by diabetes as they are increasingly SHIFTING to western fast food culture
Bob's experience depicts a shift from a response that is slightly awed and distanced (exemplified by the «prison break» plan that he presents to Charlotte), to the development of a connection to Japanese culture which he reveals to his wife on the telephone.
While most have gone cold on the director (myself included), Vanilla Sky offers up a waking nightmare of a world populated by countless pop culture references and shifting identities.
A decade ago, «Ready Player One» would have the pedigree of a major summer release, but the culture as shifted, and that terrain is dominated by Marvel movies and «Jurassic Park» spin - offs.
She questioned how useful or problematic the «Chick Flick» term is, and the shift in culture influenced on all sides by the solidifying of the «Bromance» movie, raunch culture, Judd Apatow's brand of feminism, and the rise of the «female friendship» sub-genre.
They're so intimidated by an examination of the ever - shifting culture to see that Velvet Goldmine is also about the emotions and desires attached to those changing times.
This year has been one of the most exciting line - ups in recent memory, as the culture - shifting Get Out takes on the heavily nominated The Shape of Water; Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird both tell small, personal stories; Dunkirk, Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread bring that historical flair Oscar loves so much; and The Post and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri both tell timely, vital stories (even if one takes place decades ago).
Let us begin by shifting emphasis from finding the right answer to creating school cultures that encourage risk - taking and embrace ambiguity.
By adopting a culture shift that incorporates the idea of change happening on a micro-scale rather than all at once, you help to cultivate fertile soil where the roots of real, positive, systemic change can take hold and flourish.
Let's begin by shifting emphasis from finding the right answer to creating cultures that encourage risk - taking and embrace ambiguity.
By shifting the culture of student passivity to a culture of student empowerment and action, students have more ownership in their learning.
Today, public education is undergoing a massive shift from a focus on inputs, process, and compliance toward a culture driven by performance and outcomes.
The book Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding and Independence for All Learners, by Ron Ritchard, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison, features strategies to develop students» thinking dispositions and to shift the classroom culture toward a community of enthusiastic and engaged thinkers and learners.
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.
Whitesville Elementary will create a culture shift by encouraging students to be leaders and take charge of their own learning, behavior, attitude, and attendance.
Have we just brought computer labs into classrooms, or are we making learning personalised and mobile by shifting the context and culture?
REAL HARD is focused on shifting school culture from punitive to restorative by expanding leadership roles for students to become culture drivers, implement shared values, and create respectful learning spaces.
Lessons were focussed on the shifts in lifestyle, culture and technology since the Suffolk school opened in 1968, with the event culminating in a pupil fashion show, attended by former students, parents, governors and guests from the Samuel Ward Academy Trust, of which the school is a member.
Rather than magic, teachers, parents and students give more likely explanations for the off - the - charts improvement: all the Saturdays, early mornings and late afternoons worked by every staff member (from the principal to the PE teacher); a shift in school culture to better respect and understand students; and a newfound focus on data and educational technologies.
I'm inspired by Meria Joel Carstarphen, the superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, who talks about the fundamental educational shift from a culture of punitive testing to an emphasis on the whole child.
An elementary school needed to ensure that its culture shift to STEM learning would be successfully integrated without diminishing its budget and by inspiring its teachers.
PBIS is designed to impact school culture by shifting attention to positive behavior and successful learning systems.
The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.
Agency by Design offers a path to use maker - centered learning to support equity, student success, critical thinking, joyful school culture, and a shift to learner - driven practice.
Like our turnaround and transformation process, our performance management services focus on shifting the culture of the school and district by engaging all parties in the decision making, in order to address the related issues — hiring practices, working conditions, professional development, recruitment, and compensation — that impact the effectiveness of the evaluation system.
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