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We'll be reminded of the draw of northern Britain's cultural capital by Glasgow International (8 to 25 Apr), a lively if sometimes hotchpotch citywide extravaganza that will include the first Scottish solo exhibition of Cologne - based artist Cosima von Bonin.

threewalls is a 501 (c) 3 organization dedicated to increasing Chicago's cultural capital by cultivating contemporary art practice and discourse.

It can also transmit cultural capital by teaching children the specific behaviors, patterns of speech, and cultural references that are valued by the educational and professional elite.

There is a connection between the loss of cultural capital by mainline Protestants and the Religious Right coalition of the 1980s and 1990s, and the rise of religious populism to fill the vacuum.

Not exact matches

Following Bourdieu's use of the terms «cultural» and «social capital) «The position of a given agent within the social space can thus be defined by the positions he occupies in the different fields, that is in the distribution of the powers that are active within each of them.

In fact, Kenward appears to accept French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's definition of cultural capital as «knowledge, skills, style and taste by which one class or social group dominated another.»

Stein furthered relations by giving the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization 300 clay tablets that recorded the daily economic life in Persepolis, a capital of the ancient Persian Empire.

Lonely Planet voted Wellington the «coolest little capital in the world», 1 and indeed, Welly is seen by many as New Zealand's cultural hub, with a lively arts scene, great restaurants, and many other vibrant offerings.

Lonely Planet voted Wellington the coolest little capital in the world, 1 and indeed, Welly is seen by many as New Zealands cultural hub, with a lively arts scene, great.

However, if this sounds as if the most important film festival in the self - proclaimed cultural capital of the world is basically just a bunch of leftovers, we challenge anyone not to be tempted by the delectable, if familiar, offerings.

They also found «an increase in cultural capital of one standard deviation is estimated to increase the likelihood of completing upper secondary education by 12.5 percentage points.»

As they put it: «Bourdieu argued that cultural capital, that is familiarity with the dominant cultural codes in a society, is a key determinant of educational success because it is misperceived by teachers as academic brilliance and rewarded as such.»

Earlier theory had suggested that cultural capital might improve academic performance by making students falsely appear more knowledgable, even if their command of the material were no greater.

As Lamb, Teese and Polesel have shown, with the increasing residualisation of public schools caused by the flight of cultural capital — itself a result of years of federal and state neglect and artificial choice programs promoting private schools — public schools have a larger proportion of problematic learners, disadvantaged and refugee families, and students at risk of school failure, but have larger class sizes than ever before in comparison with most private schools.

The concept of cultural capital theory was proposed by Pierre Bourdieu and Jean - Claude Passeron (1977) to explain differences in academic achievement among children in France's educational system in the 1960s.

For some of your students, field trips provide the only opportunity they have to experience the world outside their neighborhood, and provide an opportunity to develop the kind of cultural capital enjoyed by their more affluent peers.

Research has previously shown that differences in cultural and social capital can have repercussions in areas as diverse as use of language by the time children enter school, preferential access to grammar and faith schools, the type of characteristics parents value when choosing schools, the kind of studies children undertake and their access to more prestigious universities, or even the adoption of cultural practices linked to substantial cognitive gains like reading for pleasure.

There are teaching methods and strategies that increase the cultural capital of disadvantaged children which have been shown to be effective by the Education Endowment Foundation.

«The capital and the country during that epoch were roiled by enormous political, cultural, and social changes; journalism was changing too, and Bernstein quickly came to understand that every good newspaperman was part truth - teller, part would - be savant, and, not incidentally, something of a huckster and scamp,» Holt said in announcing the deal.

The lynchpin of Tet was the capture of Hue, Vietnam's intellectual and cultural capital, by 10,000 National Liberation Front troops who descended from hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000.

This Texas city officially sells itself as the «live music capital of the world,» and the hometown of cultural draws like Austin City Limits and South by Southwest is also a great choice for young people with big career aspirations.

In the capital city of San Juan, take in numerous cultural attractions as well as a lively nightlife, or, by taking the ferry to Vieques Island (just $ 4 roundtrip) where you can relax and soak in the sunshine on miles of secluded sandy beaches.

A trip to this cultural capital is like walking through an area forgotten by time.

It wasn't until I got to my hotel in the country's capital, Valletta, that I got a sense of what the island is really about: 7,000 years of history and cultural heritage left by numerous conquerors, including the Phoenicians, Moors, Normans, Knights of St. John, Napoleonic Empire and, most recently, the British.

This charming city was the island's historic capital, and has most of the region's cultural attractions, from a beautifully preserved medieval quarter crowned by a Gothic cathedral to a sturdy 17th - century fortress, now an interesting history museum.

After spending time at the mall visit at the Ferrari world, an amusement park made by Ferrari (you will not be allowed to enter in as for entry there will be separate tickets) After seeing the modern side of Abu Dhabi explore the historic side of the cultural capital of the UAE.

The city of Cusco is the center of operations and the starting point of almost all circuits that are visited throughout the region for having been in the time of the Incas the capital city and main administrative center of this vast and awesome empire Within the cultural attractions, we can find the beautiful and fascinating Cathedral, one of the largest, most beautiful and important of all Latin America, built entirely with stones brought from the impressive Sacsayhuaman, which is still an enigmatic Inca construction that surprises, by the size of its stones and the amazing precision with which each of these stones fits.

Western Ukraine, by contrast, is home to Lviv, the country's cultural capital, and certainly feels more European than Soviet.

Surrounded by rice fields, tobacco plantations, papaya, banana and coconut groves this is still a very traditional area untouched by tourism, however access to the bypass means it is only a ten - minute drive to Sukawati's art and craft market, fifteen minutes to the cafés and restaurants of Sanur and 30 minutes to the cultural capital of Ubud.

Morocco's coastal cities and towns include Tangier, with its vibrant nightlife; glittering Casablanca, the country's economic and cultural capital made famous by the 1942 Humphrey Bogart movie; and whitewashed fishing ports, such as Asalih and Essaouira.

Valletta, the island's stunning capital can be reached by road or by boat and is one of the Mediterranean's finest historic cities, with a cultural scene that has won it European Capital of Culture status focapital can be reached by road or by boat and is one of the Mediterranean's finest historic cities, with a cultural scene that has won it European Capital of Culture status foCapital of Culture status for 2017.

Transferring from the cayes by ferry we took the charmingly named and scenic Hummingbird Highway from Belize City to the southern seaside town of Dangriga, the country's cultural capital with its Garifuna drumming centre and on to lovely Hopkins fishing village, now home to some upmarket hotels but still with the quaint, simple style that defines the area.

The island capital of Bridgetown is only 15 minutes away by car, and is packed with museums, galleries and other cultural attractions.

On the way back from the volcano you can pass by the city of Ubud, Bali's cultural capital.

The resort is approximately 8 km from the city of Margao, Goa's cultural and commercial capital, which is well serviced by public buses and trains.

The team at TURBO believes New York has the potential to drive the next wave of innovation in games, fueled by unparalleled cultural capital.

Founded by artists Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, Jakob Fenger and Rasmus Nielsen, SUPERFLEX offers engaging, often humorous perspectives on the social and cultural concerns of our age, from migration to alternative energy production, and from the power of global capital to the regulation of intellectual property.

This year's exhibition is titled Cultural Capital and shows work by fourteen Master of Fine Arts graduates under professor Florian Zeyfang.

In the era of globalisation the relations between the European metropolis torn by economical difficulties and protecting its status of a cultural capital and the region of Latin America living through a period of economical growth and cultural revival are more complicated than it used to be.

Fifty years after Time magazine declared Swinging London the global capital of cool, comes an exhibition by one of the relatively overlooked visual chroniclers of that heady pop cultural moment.

Curated by Manu Park, the solo exhibition (22 February - 30 April 2017) includes PLAYTIME (Seven Screen Installation), 2014, which explores the dramatic and nuanced subject of capital, Kapital, 2013, a two - screen documentary, which includes the artist in conversation with leading academics such as David Harvey and Stuart Hall, and The Leopard, 2007, which brings together baroque pageantry and metaphor in a work that, referring to journeys made across the Mediterranean by Asians and Africans trying to enter Europe by sea, experiments with notions of cultural entanglement and the dissent between aesthetics and politics.

Despite the universal nature of dance and the innately compelling images of movement, these dances embody local cultural knowledge at risk of disappearing in the placeless calculations made by the demands of capital as it flows through the European Union.

Throughout Europe, a successful model has been developed across the decades in the 20th and 21st centuries which has helped what once were desolate industry towns, thwarted by the stagnation of economies, become reborn cultural capitals.

Recent awards include the inaugural Mario Merz Prize (2015); the Award for Filmic Oeuvre created by Louis Vuitton and Kino der Kunst (2013); the Abraaj Capital Art Prize (2012); the Schering Foundation Art Award (2011), as well as The International Commissioning Grant and an award from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, in 2005.

Produced by Situations, international public art producers, Sanctum is commi ssioned as part of the cultural programme for Bristol 2015 European Green Capital.

«11th Annual Creative Chicago Expo,» Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, March 14, 2014 «They do things there they don't do on Broadway: The Visual Performed,» organized by Creative Capital, College Art Association 102nd Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 15, 2014 «Exhibiting Socially Engaged Art: A Chicago Case Study,» organized by Mary Jane Jacob, College Art Association 102nd Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 14, 2014 «Social Practice.Social Justice Symposium,» Project Row Houses 20th Anniversary Celebration, Houston, TX, January 24, 2014

A project of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, curated by Boaz Levin and Marianna Liosi, sponsored by the Capital Cultural Fund.

This contemporary art exhibition, organized by Wiels and curated by Dirk Snauwaert in collaboration with Mons 2015 — European Capital of Culture, will present a group of artists interested in phenomena of circulation, diaspora and cultural dislocation.

Curated by Manu Park, the solo exhibition includes PLAYTIME (Seven Screen Installation), 2014, which explores the dramatic and nuanced subject of capital, Kapital, 2013, a two - screen documentary, which includes the artist in conversation with leading academics such as David Harvey and Stuart Hall, and The Leopard, 2007, which brings together baroque pageantry and metaphor in a work that, referring to journeys made across the Mediterranean by Asians and Africans trying to enter Europe by sea, experiments with notions of cultural entanglement and the dissent between aesthetics and politics.

Sama Alshaibi, Khaled Hafez and Khaled Jarrar will be taking part in «Arab Territories», a residency and exhibition organised on the occasion of the city of Constantine, Algeria being named as the «Capital of Arab Culture 2015» by ALECSO, the Arab League's Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation.