Sentences with phrase «cultural anchors within»

Cultural assets are people, places, events and organizations, both past and present, that serve as cultural anchors within this community.

We think of cultural assets as people, places, events, and organizations recognized as cultural anchors within a specific community.

The museum's central location positions it as a cultural anchor within the community and enhances its role in developing cultural literacy throughout the Miami region.

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In the following interviews, assistant editor Ross Brenneman talks with two principals of color about how they mitigate bias within their schools, infuse cultural competency into instruction, and use their life experiences to anchor their leadership.

In parallel with his work in the studio, Bradford maintains a social practice, anchored by his Los Angeles - based not - for - profit, Art + Practice, an educational platform that emphasizes practical skills for foster youth and stresses the cultural importance of art within a larger social context.

This anchors her visual universe within cultural history and lends a modern, personal interpretation to Eastern religions, including Tibetan Buddhism, Indian Tantrism and Christian ecstatic traditions like those of the seventeenth - century Baroque.

Developmental scholars have long been interested in documenting the social experiences that help explain within - and between - group variation in children's early language and learning.1, 2 This work is anchored in the writings of scholars such as Bruner3, 4 and Vygotsky, 5 who posited that learning occurs in a socio - cultural context in which adults and primary caregivers support or «scaffold» young children to higher levels of thinking and acting.