Sentences with phrase «cultural engagement with»

At Tate, Paul creates platforms for cultural engagement with contemporary art by programming talks, symposia, workshops and live art events including The Status of Difference (ideas / debate series, 2008 - 2010), Conversation Pieces (ongoing artist talks series), Global Modernities (Tate Triennial conference, March 2009) and Afrodizzia (Late at Tate, Feb 2010).

Not exact matches

Ursula Adams, director of employee engagement at United Way for Southeastern Michigan, says using the daily - engagement app Niko Niko — which tracks employees» mood data with its mobile «happiness meter» — has helped her avoid sinking money into fixing the wrong cultural problems.

One of the fundamental challenges with evangelistic cultural engagement is how far to go to engage culture.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

There really ought to be little wonder that the Catholic Church would, for the better part of two centuries, see great caution where possible, and open resistance where necessary, as the rule for her engagement with modernity — political, cultural, intellectual, and otherwise.

There is a further dimension to this work which has been evoked at the Synod, and that is the wider cultural engagement demanded of the Church in countries with a strongly secular environment.

Though aware of the social and cultural context of the church and the necessity of an evangelical engagement with it, advocates of the mechanist approach required that prior attention be given to the adequacy of the instrumentality that undertakes the engagement.

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

One difference is that today's commentaries hold very little knowledge of Torah culture and even the Jewish dialogue going on in the New Testament and although they have a lot of knowledge, it is diluted by a full cultural engagement which leaves a lot out with a very gentile understanding of Scripture.

Reporting on the recent Barna study on Gen Z attitudes and behaviors, Jonathan Morrow, director of cultural engagement at Impact 360 Institute, writes: «With the best of intentions, we bubble wrap our kids and create Disney World - like environments for them in our churches, and then wonder why they have no resilience in faith or life... In short, teenagers need a grown - up worldview not coloring book Jesus.»

Just as kingship symbolism functioned for 1,500 years both as a language of cultural engagement and as a critical tool against all earthly kings, so republican symbolism can provide us with a language of transcendence as well as immanence for our own time.

The aim of Cultural destinations is to enable arts and culture organisations working in partnership with destination organisations to increase their reach, engagement and resilience through working with the tourism sector.

They are also creating or purchasing training focused solely on cultural competence with families of young children, relationship - building, and family engagement.

«Arts participation, unlike arts consumption and cultural engagement generally, is not closely associated with either social class or social status,» said Dr Reeves in the article.

The team became interested in curiosity because of its ongoing collaborative research project to improve public engagement with science documentaries involving the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, and Tangled Bank Studios at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Film Forward travels the globe and partners with local organizations and embassies to exhibit films and hold meaningful discussions, Q&A's, panels, and master classes that support an engagement between filmmakers and audiences and foster broader cultural dialogues.

Through our open call for submissions, we hope to engage with filmmakers on the forefront of cinematic innovation and experimentation in both content and form, presenting access - driven stories with journalistic integrity that demand an engagement with our political and cultural environments.

It is concerned with making critical judgements based on a sound knowledge of a variety of contexts; judgements about cultural values, cultural history, aesthetics, quality, craftsmanship and fitness for purpose, and provides an opportunity for and engagement in leisure pursuits that can yield lifelong benefits in health, well ‑ being and life satisfaction.

For example, Head Start has been and continues to be a leader in its focus on family engagement and comprehensive services, on children with disabilities, and on children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds; in its commitments to accountability for program quality; in its investments in the professional development of the early childhood education workforce that led to the development of the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential; and in its commitment to and investment in research and evaluation to strengthen quality, improve child outcomes, and reduce the achievement gap.

Research suggests that EL families» socioeconomic status, lack of social connectivity, language barriers, differing cultural perspectives about family engagement in education, and lack of familiarity with U.S. school procedures are all factors that constrain EL families» awareness of school options and opportunities.

Usually it's students lacking in cultural knowledge who have trouble with engagement and understanding; they sometimes struggle to clear hurdles because they don't get some of the countless allusions many of us take for granted.

Along with many of the standard indicators of climate such as positivity, respect, and engagement, are research - proven strategies such as mindfulness, self - regulation, cultural competence, and an understanding of trauma, neuroscience and emotions — these are all important in supporting students and learning.

In her study of motivational factors that impact student engagement, Kathleen Cushman identified «social learning with others, links to students» own interests, cultural connections, physical activity, relevance to the larger world, competition, an element of choice and sheer curiosity about an intriguing puzzle» (2013, p. 42).

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.

Through an investigation of both informal and institutionally organized interactions, this study analyzes how participation in indigenous, national, and international literacy practices indexes different senses of cultural citizenship (Rosaldo 1997), which, in turn, inform Cham minority children's complex sense of belonging within, and their meaningful intergenerational engagement with, the language and culture of their parents amid Vietnam's post-socialist transformation.

The CPS Arts Education Plan was developed through more than 25 community engagement sessions with key stakeholders including principals, teachers, parents, students, arts and cultural organizations and the general public.

Prior to her work with Project Zero, for ten years Andrea led educational programs at Le Laboratoire Cambridge (Le Lab), a cultural center focused on cross-disciplinary idea development and public engagement.

His work provides a timely addition to the growing research on boys of color and calls for a critical and intersectional engagement with the cultural politics of specifically Latino masculinity.

In this session with Mesa Public Schools» programs and experience being the backdrop, best practices and learnings about the powerful impact of family and cultural connections on student engagement, achievement and personal success will be explored.

Our library engagement typology found that Americans» relationships with public libraries are part of their broader information and social landscapes, as people who have extensive economic, social, technological, and cultural resources are also more likely to use and value libraries as part of those networks.

Implementing YALSA's «Teen Services Competencies for Library Staff» in Your Library Location: Colorado Convention Center, Rm 501/502 YALSA's new «Teen Services Competencies for Library Staff» (http://www.ala.org/yalsa/guidelines/yacompetencies) outlines the skills all library staff need to effectively serve teens - from interaction with teens and families to learning environments and experiences, community and family engagement, cultural competency, and outcomes and assessment.

Echoing what Doug Parker said back in March, Kirby noted that the airline was focusing on a «cultural transformation» where the aim is to build «the best employee engagement in the industry» by focusing on improved contracts and profit - sharing with employees as well as getting to a place where employees were proud of where they work.

Kapoor's talk will focus on his long engagement with public space, reflecting on the creative, cultural and political dimensions of his practice.

Through their engagement with specific architectural forms, the works in the exhibition offer insights into distinct cultural contexts, histories and social struggles.

This innovative collaboration with the city was designed to bring art into the community, activating public engagement with contemporary art through curated exhibitions and programs, and revive underutilized properties in the city of Waltham, supporting the city's long - term goals for economic growth and cultural vibrancy.

With a focus upon contemporary art since the 1960s, MUMA seeks to establish the museum as a dynamic site for cultural production, pedagogy and participation — through exhibitions, collection development, curatorial research, publishing, and academic and community engagement.

Located in the center of the city at Quai des Bergues 15 - 17, the new space will occupy 333 square meters and provide Pace a platform to further strengthen its engagement with the region's cultural institutions, collectors and public audiences.

Much of Hiller's art is characterised by an engagement with cultural artefacts.

Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design proposes a fresh look at the internationally recognized designer and examines his work in the Parisian cultural context between the wars to highlight his circle of influential patrons, engagement with the period's foremost artists, and designs for the film industry.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Director Alex Nyerges said: «This project is a true relationship between our museums and reflects the vitality of engagement with China throughout Virginia from cultural and economic development initiatives.

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art operates in a unique cultural environment and the members of the Collections Fund committee were impressed by the museum's engagement with issues that resonate with the community it serves, such as migration and exile.

His intense engagement with cultural and social issues led him to organize the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange from 1984 to 1991, an unprecedented project that took him to countries such as Tibet, Cuba, and China and sought to create social connections and bridge political differences.

The repetition of shapes allows Leigh to have a sustained, temporal engagement with the formal — and gendered — history of ceramics and the cultural histories each object represents.

«In these three decades, The Art Show has served as an anchor of the New York cultural calendar, offering visitors a unique fair experience that encourages engagement with high quality works of art and with the foremost galleries in the country.

Rather than simplistically linking revolutionary breakthroughs in the arts with larger social and cultural phenomenon, he writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate contemporary art's engagement with history even when it seems apathetic or blind to current events.

For this site - specific project, Rios Ferreira initiated the work through community engagement, conducting workshops with teenagers in youth programs at Wave Hill and at Casita Maria, two Bronx - based cultural institutions.

Next to this core engagement for female artists, BROADWAY 1602 also represents other cultural agents and outstanding personalities of the New York postwar avant - garde, such as The Archive of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), David Tudor & Composers Inside Electronics (CIE), and collaborations with the The George and Helen Segal Foundation, Robert Whitman and the Robert Anton collection.

This exhibition features over two dozen rarely seen collages from the 1980s and 90s that reveal Spero's innovative approach to printmaking in scroll - like expanses of paper, as well as her lifelong engagement with contemporary political, social, and cultural issues.

It seems symptomatic of a broader reorientation in the pop - cultural landscape of early»90s Britain, away from the plaid - shirt nihilism of Generation X, towards a confident levity and engagement with a more localized pop sensibility — a loss of interest in the US as locus of artistic innovation.

Cultural references abound — from Marcel Duchamp's engagement with everyday objects to filmmaker Jean - Luc Godard's fascination with the colors red, yellow, and blue.