Sentences with phrase «cultural foundation for»

This is particularly true in the context of native title, which, based on traditional owner structures, provides a cultural foundation for the establishment of decision - making structures that may develop into more formalized governance structures.

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In doing so, he laid the foundation for the new discipline of enterprise design, successfully applying his design thinking methodology to economic, cultural, governmental, environmental, and social change for internationally celebrated designers, leading companies, and countries around the world.
For its principles of order, the foundations for its reality, are solely culturFor its principles of order, the foundations for its reality, are solely culturfor its reality, are solely cultural.
For in terms of our legal culture, Griswold was the Pearl Harbor of the American culture war, the fierce debate over the moral and cultural foundations of our democracy that has shaped our politics for two generatioFor in terms of our legal culture, Griswold was the Pearl Harbor of the American culture war, the fierce debate over the moral and cultural foundations of our democracy that has shaped our politics for two generatiofor two generations.
But to use him as the sole foundation for our cultural criticism is a shaky prospect.
For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.
Two, they control information and entertainment which are the foundations for the establishment of the social, political and cultural conduct of a large part of the population (Bagdikian, 1989: 81 0).
The real issue for the health of liberal institutions, it seems to me, is not philosophical foundations, but social and cultural foundations.
If that remains the dominant cultural form within which ministers are trained, then the foundations laid in theological education will be increasingly inadequate for understanding theologically a large part of the world in which ministry will actually be exercised.
But this insistence on Kantian morality, to my mind, shows a thinness regarding the foundation of ethics not only when it moves to an abstraction beyond settled emotive, historical and cultural practices, whether they be for better or worse.
just sayin «Those were cultural restrictions for the foundation of ancient Israel.
Those were cultural restrictions for the foundation of ancient Israel.
As is explained on its website: «The college will develop and enrich the cultural and educational life of our country; and respond to Benedict XVI's call for a New Evangelisation, bringing life to «the interior desert that results when man, wishing to be the only builder of his own nature and his own destiny, finds himself devoid of that which constitutes the foundation of all things»» (Motu proprio Ubicumque et semper, October 2010).
Much is at stake for many of our traditional moral and cultural foundations, particularly those «self - evident» truths proclaimed in our Declaration of Independence.
For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.
Those of us who believe that our social and political order rests on moral foundations applaud William Bennett for his Index of Leading Cultural Indicators.
The foundation for the regime was laid down in United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted on December 10, 1948 by the UN General Assembly) and the two key human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (in force since January 3, 1976) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (in force since March 23, 1976).
Those foundations have socio - cultural roots, but at their most elemental, they all revolve around one desire: for money, or more pertinently the security that it provides, however nebulous it may be.
than the foundation of such a world association of schools which would then awaken a real sense for a free cultural life and spiritual life in the widest circle of people.»
What a good book to serve as a foundation for discussion about many aspects of children and school lunches — cultural, financial, economic as well as nutritional.
«With this project we preserve the city's rich economic and cultural legacy while laying the foundation for future prosperity.
He unsuccessfully ran for the SCSD's board in 2015 and, that same year, graduated from Syracuse University with a master's degree in cultural foundations and education.
The foundation awards major grants for research in its four main topic areas: Future of Work, Immigration, Cultural Contact, and Social Inequality.
Now we wait for the Oscar show, where showbiz hypocrites will blather about «bringing us together» while they continue to destroy the cultural foundations that used to make us see, think, and feel as one.
Program Sponsors: Air France and Delta Air Lines, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Edmond de Rothschild Foundations, Engie, Enoch Foundation, French American Cultural Exchange (FACE), Florence Gould Foundation, Hermès Foundation within the framework of the New Settings Program, Howard Gilman Foundation, Institut français, JCDecaux, National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Office de Tourisme de Boulogne - Billancourt, Performing Arts Fund NL, and Pommery.
The author, Laurie Moses Hines, teaches cultural foundations of education at Kent State University, a National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)- accredited institution.
It is the very foundation of good citizenship [and] the principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment.
Thus, the PLC provided the foundation for cultural and structural continuity from the previous principal to the current principal.
«We believe that events like the strikes of maritime workers, the Stonewall rebellion, the fight for the 8 - hour day, rent strikes, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the Black nationalist movement and the rest of our history deserves to be seen by the very people who build and provide the resources to maintain cultural institutions like our foundations and museums.
By introducing and researching teacher - led book discussions of ethnic literature, we hoped to investigate alternative texts and contexts for teachers to learn about the cultural foundations of literacy in their own and others» lives.
The Wallace Foundation launched the Community Partnerships for Cultural Participation (CPCP) initiative to encourage community foundations to expand audience - building programs and provide direct support for local cultural organizations and Cultural Participation (CPCP) initiative to encourage community foundations to expand audience - building programs and provide direct support for local cultural organizations and cultural organizations and artists.
Foundations Life in Deep Ellum, Social Venture Partners Dallas, Prokhorov Foundation, Icelandic Literature Center, The French American Cultural Exchange, Korean Literature Translation Institute, Brazilian National Library Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation, The Dutch Foundation for Literature
Eve curated GrubStreet's NEA - funded Publish it Forward lecture series and our innovative Launch Lab, led GrubStreet's Diversity Task force, laying the foundation for GrubStreet's next chapter, and was the driving force behind establishing the country's first Literary Cultural District in downtown Boston.
Mom and John, both of whom had met with Nancy many times in Pakistan and Afghanistan, were working together to form a U.S. foundation to help Nancy raise money for a national cultural center and library - something Afghanistan didn't have - to be built at Kabul University, and for mobile libraries for villages all over the country, bringing books in Dari and Pashto to people who'd rarely or never seen a book in their own language if they'd seen a book at all.
Gates revisits the 1957 book of the same name, providing a much - needed foundation for historical and cultural identity and paving the way for future editions.
Skolkin - Smith has received grants from many cultural and artistic foundations and Edges was nominated for the 2006 PEN / Faulkner Award.
Certainly, attending attractions such as Doha's Museum of Islamic Art, with its impressive collection of tapestries and other artifacts from throughout the Middle East and beyond, and the Msheireb Museums, chronicling the people and industries that laid the foundation for modern Qatar, illustrated that, yes, those looking for some cultural insight during their visit won't come up short.
«This cultural wealth is the foundation for our national vision, and is the basis on which the Government of Qatar and Katara Hospitality are developing a sustainable tourism offering for future generations to come,» added Sheikh Nawaf.
Venice went on to channel its fear and suffering into art and design, building breathtaking architecture such as the Basilica di san Marco and laying the foundations for the city to turn into the cultural hub it is today.
In 1953 a budding manga artist, by the name of Mitsuteru Yokoyama, penned a series that would be responsible for laying the foundations of a pop - cultural phenomenon that has now lasted over half a century.
As a consultant in cultural policies, she is the author of strategic plans, orientation programmes and evaluation reports for national and international cultural institutions and art foundations.
Štrukelj is visiting artist residency at 18th Street Arts Center is supported by a grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding, a foundation sponsoring cultural exchanges between artists in Central and Eastern Europe and non-profit organizations in the United States that works to engage local communities through its programs.
«We told them what we were looking for and what our goals are,» said Nicholas Fox Weber, the foundation's executive director and a cultural biographer («Le Corbusier: A Life»).
The foundation's core initiatives include the long - running Sharjah Biennial, featuring contemporary artists from around the world; the annual March Meeting, a convening of international arts professionals and artists; grants and residencies for artists, curators, and cultural producers; ambitious and experimental commissions; and a range of traveling exhibitions and scholarly publications.
Its clients include cultural institutions and private foundations such as Neue Galerie in New York; the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts; and New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
Established in 2009 to expand programmes beyond the Sharjah Biennial, which launched in 1993, the foundation is a critical resource for artists and cultural organisations in the Gulf and a conduit for local, regional, and international developments in contemporary art.
The grant funded curatorial fellowships for undergrads and was designed, in the foundation's words, «to open up the museum as a potential workplace to students from historically underrepresented minorities and other undergraduates who are committed to diversifying our cultural organizations.»
ISSUE Project Room's Artist - in - Residence program is made possible, in part, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, mediaThe foundation inc., public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation is an independent foundation that has been supporting arts and cultural programs for nearly thirty years.
Other awards include Japan Foundation, Bush, McKnight, Jerome, Ordway and Durfee Foundations, City of Los Angeles Cultural Arts, Fellows of Contemporary Art, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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