Sentences with phrase «cultural change effort»

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Efforts to promote such changes in the guise of human rights are correctly condemned as egregious instances of «cultural imperialism» by which elites of certain rich nations, not least of the United States, attempt to impose their values on the rest of the world.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Volume II, Number 2 A New Educational Paradigm — Michaela Glöckler, M.D. Changes in Brain Formation — Michael Kneissle Organology and Physiology of Learning — Wolfgang Schad New Health Problems of Children and Youth — University of Bielefeld (Germany) Rudolf Steiner's Efforts to Encourage Cultural Diversity — Detlef Hardorp The Middle Passage?Out of Diversity We Become Whole — Cindy Weinberg

On the other hand, those systems that have successfully moved toward more competency - based approaches are putting in a concerted effort to manage cultural change, or were already grounded in a competency - based, personalized culture even before the mandate was handed down.

Fullan asserts that, while there is no standard formula for changing the culture of an organization, sustainable improvement requires several years of effort to work through complex cultural issues such as resistance to change and acculturation of the new leader.215 Turnover that occurs every two or three years makes it unlikely that a principal will get beyond the stages of initiation and early implementation.

Anthony Muhammad, in Transforming School Culture, Second Edition, has not only shined a light on why such change efforts rarely work — due to ignoring a school's culture — but has gone on to describe how school leaders can and should address sustainable cultural change.

Make a Climate Action Contribution on behalf of a US city, state, tribe, university, faith group, business, or cultural institution, and take part in a national effort to step up the fight against climate change and show the world, We Are Still In.

Cultural mapping may also facilitate indigenous efforts to win recognition and compensation under a proposed scheme to mitigate climate change through forest conservation.

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This time, he takes a global look at how grassroots community efforts may provide a blueprint for systemic, cultural change.

For many law firms following a rainmaker model, the goal here is facilitate a cultural change from an individual effort to a group effort.