Sentences with phrase «cultural gaps between»

It may be said that this jurisdiction has procedures most closely associated with the US model but there are significant procedural and cultural gaps between the two.

These early paintings show Immendorff and his embattled compatriot working toward a unified German society, using art to bridge the cultural gaps between East and West and overcome the arbitrary barrier of the Berlin wall.

The spirit of blue abaya is to bridge cultural gaps between the east and the west, to keep an open mind, to see the humor in difficult situations and «thinking outside of the box».

I think the cultural gap between a liberal metropolis like New York and the rest of America is more stark than it has been, and the conflict plays out in Internet media because Hulk Hogan's [Florida] neighbors can read Gawker.

The company helps bridge the considerable cultural gap between Intuition's two divisions, adds McIntosh.

The referendum has underlined the social and cultural gap between London and provincial England.

Look at the cultural gap between east and west; deprived Glasgow and professional Edinburgh (where a quarter of children are being educated at independent schools) are thoroughly different places.

You will begin to learn how to bridge the cultural gap between S&T and the policy process, and how to foster more effective interaction between the sectors.

Recent work from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, published in Nature Communications today, bridges the cultural gap between organic chemists and theoreticians that is embodied in the «curly arrow.»

Given the context of a wide cultural gap between the East and West (or for that matter North vs South), we need to be actively and cohesively involved in bringing about a change in our own neighbourhood / community and simultaneously connecting to global challenges and sensitive to diverse needs.

Still, there's another gap that often goes unexamined: the cultural gap between students and teachers.

From a comfortable suburb of Columbus, Ohio, emerges a story of rebellion, faith and hope, bridging the cultural gap between those who believe in miracles and those who wish they could.

Artist Ma Qiusha explores the cultural gap between her own and preceding generations.

Along with exposing children to non-marital sexual relationships, nowhere is the generational and cultural gap between South Carolina parents and the typical family court judge greater than it is with tolerance, even acceptance, of marijuana use.

This is a great example of the cultural gap between the country and the city.

Not exact matches

This dark, mature film had the thankless task of bridging the gap between the cultural phenomenon that was the 1977 original and the two - hour toy commercial that was «Return of the Jedi,» and it did its job magnificently.

The restoration of theology would greatly enrich the cultural, intellectual and spiritual life of our society, and it would help overcome the gap between the academic and the ministerial, between the scholarly and the pastoral, that so bedevils American theological education.

Currently, I use my research experience to help a U.S. company, but I hope to eventually use my Japanese cultural background to help bridge the gap between Japanese and American biotech companies.

«This will close the cultural gap that exists between these two worlds,» says Dupoux.

They seem to appreciate that «you understand that there's a cultural difference [between industry and academe] and you're working to bridge that gap.»

While it wouldn't be wrong to say that there are scores of dating sites that fail to keep up their promises, there are a few that have certainly bridged the gap between people of different racial and cultural backgrounds.

Many relationships fail because there is a sort of gap between the partners, especially because of traditional and cultural differences.

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

Various literatures show that lack of awareness and understanding of education, conflict, cultural ethos, social customs, poverty and poor economic conditions, the gap between the home and the school etc. are the some of the factors which stand as obstacles in their path of attaining education.

Studies suggest that replacing the lecture - hall model with an active learning model can help close the achievement gap between students of different cultural backgrounds.

Across all Gap Inc. companies, including Old Navy, women make up 74 percent of the employee population while 49 percent of all its U.S. employees identify themselves as ethnically diverse.18 Old Navy's emphasis on performance - based metrics during its selection process ensures a strong cultural fit between the company and all hired candidates, and contributes to the recruitment and retention of its diverse employee pool.

Children from diverse cultural backgrounds tend to do better when parents and professionals collaborate to bridge the gap between the culture at home and the learning institution;

Cultural Brokers - Provide translation and interpretation support to bridge the language gap between schools and English learner families

Cultural competency development is now a large component of the Oregon Leadership Network's mission to strengthen education leadership to improve student success and eliminate the performance gap between different ethnic and socioeconomic student groups.

Her blog talks about how food bridges the gap between exploring the unknown and understanding cultural behaviors.

Staying in one of the hotels near Lido di Jesolo will perfectly bridge the gap between a cultural break and a sun - filled family beach trip.

The work's stemmed violence also probes the unsettling gap between real and surrogate, a common cultural obsession from the fetish objects of West Africa to the dismembered mannequins of Hans Bellmer and Cindy Sherman, and Maurizio Cattelan's melancholy take on the Bremen Town Musicians.

In her work, she re-creates historical cultural events with a shoddy, slapdash aesthetic, highlighting the gap between the real and interpretation.

Reclaiming artifacts and iconographies to critique the museum and speak about Black cultural history and identity, he bridges the gap between «high art» and «the street» to question connotations of race and class.

Pica approaches such heavy - duty topics, as well as the uncertainties of communication at large, with a keen wit and an infectious sense of play, quietly undermining cultural myths and clichés and poetically exploiting the perpetual gap between reality and its representation.

Yet the vote very clearly demonstrates the huge cultural gap that exists between the cultural elites who live and work in London, and the way things are perceived by the bulk of the population living outside of the metropolis.

As the above figure indicates, the difference in perceived consensus between the left and right can be explained by Kahan's preferred cultural bias explanation, but the «liberal consensus gap» can't.

For starters, I examine Dan's idea that the consensus gap (the gap between public perception and the 97 % consensus) is due to cultural cognition.

This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite of targeted interventions that span a number of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the higher rate of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy of past practices of exclusion of Aboriginal children from schools, and its impact on shaping family and community values regarding the importance of attending school in Indigenous families compared with non-Indigenous families.6 7 31 Additional socioeconomic and school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.

Finding out why Indigenous nurses are not finding employment is an important way to address cultural safety and ultimately close the health and life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

If we're going to make any progress in closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes, we're going to have to start addressing the gap that currently exists between the policies and procedures institutions put in place around cultural safety, and their practices and the lived experiences of Indigenous people in our hospitals and health services.

This will deliver a nationally consistent approach to increasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural capability across the health sector and play an important role in closing the health gap between the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australians.

The Minister, who this year became Australia's first Indigenous member of a Federal Ministry, told the conference the acknowledgement of racism as a critical component for health in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan was a «huge step forward» and he believed the subsequent Implementation Plan has «sown seeds to tackle social and cultural determinants of health», which he said contributed to 31 per cent of the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Wyatt said the acknowledgement of racism as a critical component for health in the National Health Plan was a «huge step forward» and said he was delighted the Implementation Plan had «sown seeds to tackle social and cultural determinants of health», which he said contributed to 31 per cent of the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.