Sentences with phrase «challenge cultural assumptions»

These artists as well as the others included in the exhibition expose elements of wit, sarcasm, and controversy, challenging cultural assumptions that gender is ever natural or innate.

Barbara Kruger, (born January 26, 1945, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.), American artist who challenged cultural assumptions by manipulating images and text in her photographic compositions.

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Theology from the Third World challenges not only language requirements but also major cultural concepts, assumptions and worldviews.

If our relationship with God is in the spirit of adoption — if God is the gracious parent who freely and lovingly chooses to parent us — might this concept then challenge our own cultural assumptions about «real» parenthood?

Challenging the assumptions and infrastructures of patriarchy is essential to cultural evolution.

I don't believe I'm not saying anything much different than what you wrote above, but I would encourage you to point out that shaping role of culture that underlies who we become as humans rather than simply accepting cultural assumptions as givens that can not themselves be challenged.

Many of us education activists (and yes, this includes folks of color) challenge the fundamental assumption that high - stakes, standardized testing provides ``... fair, unbiased, and accurate data...» as the civil rights organizations assert in their statement, and we challenge this assumption on historical grounds, empirical grounds, pedagogical grounds, political - ideological grounds, cultural grounds, and technical grounds, amongst others.

However, teacher candidates have few opportunities to challenge their assumptions about writing teaching through their engagement with student writing from a variety of cultural, social, and linguistic backgrounds in distinct classroom contexts.

This contrast of salon sensibility and blues lament is jarring and acute, a challenge both to identity and cultural assumptions or standards.

Using larger culture contexts, both artists have continued to politically challenge status quo assumptions of our cultural symbolic order for over three decades.

It is the first to explore how those key moments — coinciding with times of American social, political, and cultural upheaval — challenged traditional hierarchies and assumptions about creativity, artistic practice, and the role of the artist.

Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic, multidisciplinary practice ranging from films and installations to lecture - performances and happenings that tackle, challenge and question prevailing cultural assumptions about identity and race.

Recognising that the cultural assumptions of the past have been integral to the building of the institutions of mainstream society today is perhaps one of the most difficult challenges for the reconciliation process.