Sentences with phrase «cultural perspective»

Their individual works span four decades and present a broad range of cultural perspectives.

They refer to a range of sources portraying different cultural perspectives to develop historical understanding.

It involves students learning to value and view critically their own cultural perspectives and practices and those of others through their interactions with people, texts and contexts across the curriculum.

Students learn to appreciate the contribution that diverse cultural perspectives have made to the development, breadth and diversity of science knowledge and applications.

He liked their unique cultural perspective, their different way of being in the world, and personally found these relationships to be more rewarding and fulfilling for him.

But many of the obstacles they face today require different skills around incorporating unfamiliar social and cultural perspectives into their decision - making.

Students concluded that where one lives determines how one will be seen, in terms of both physical appearance and sexuality; cultural perspectives highly influence the concept of beauty.

In addition to addressing feminist concerns, her work tackled cultural perspectives that had been underrepresented during the feminist movements of the early 1970s.

In fact, the expert report clearly set out the Asian cultural perspective which noted the doll is not representative of a child.

Participating legal workplaces will benefit through exposure to new cultural perspectives and ideas, and connections to underserved communities and clients.

Early care and education staff bring their personal and professional cultural perspectives.

A case coming into the office is likely to have become out of balance from the majority perspective, as well as their own cultural perspective.

Costa Rica About Blog English - language information with a cross cultural perspective on Costa Rica.

Christensen, Emde, and Fleming (2004) have recommended ways to address cultural perspectives in assessment and diagnosis for use with infants and toddlers.

About Site - English - language information with a cross cultural perspective on Costa Rica.

Morning sickness, shiny hair, and bizarre and intense cravings for pickles and ice cream — what expectations do pregnant women impose on their bodies, and how are those expectations influenced by cultural perspectives on pregnancy?

Today we are making an investment in books in translation and giving readers access to stories from diverse cultural perspectives with an aim to reach one million readers in honor of World Book Day.

Directly and indirectly, the works reflect concerns about global issues such as the wide scale spread of the virus across Africa and Asia, policies of medical research, developments in genetic engineering, inequalities in the global distribution of wealth and technology, the availability of medication world - wide and differing cultural perspectives on dying.

Not only do these opportunities boost our economy and make us all wealthier (in more ways than one), they help diversify our populations and give us access to new technologies, better ideas, and more cultural perspectives.

Students who learn other languages also gain insights into other cultural perspectives, and intercultural competency, which is defined as the ability to communicate in culturally appropriate ways, while showing appreciation and understanding of others, and maintaining a spirit of openness and respect for others.

The PSA features Dunham, Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, and Jemima Kirke standing hand in hand as they discuss the need to change cultural perspectives on sexual assault and society's treatment of victims.

Alongside them Olowska will show a series of collages and paintings which extend her themes of engaging with historical iconographies, referencing shifts in cultural perspective between East and West and the nostalgic re-staging of past aesthetics and ideologies.

In their very creation is a questioning of the role each and every one of us plays in our self - determination, in the well being of other humans, and the awareness of multiple cultural perspectives and the health of our ailing planet.

Cultural perspectives influence how we parent, how we understand children, and how we educate them.

A woman ahead of her time, Ng's mother tried to broaden her daughter's cultural perspectives through books.

An avid traveller who has photographed various locations around the world, including France, Tibet, and Indonesia, Almond's work consistently references the mutability of the environment and the ways in which cultural perspectives alter the perception of space and time.

In our acquisitive society it is now the fashion to insist that there is nothing so practical as theory (thus defending the study of «pure» and apparently useless subjects), and that a broad humanistic education is really the best preparation for ambitious young people today because their work as executives will require a deep understanding of human motives and the capacity, gained from a wide cultural perspective, to adapt readily to the new circumstances of a dynamic civilization.

Diana and Ngoc were chosen through a process that was focused explicitly on adding board expertise to help HMBANA increase its institutional capacity for focusing on increasing donor human milk access, equity, and incorporating non-dominant cultural perspectives.

Human Rights and Bioethics in Cross Cultural Perspective, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Department of Philosophy, Anne Hiskes and Serena Parekh (2009)

There is still a strong cultural perspective that when men become fathers, little will change for them on the work front,» the team writes.

Likewise, we know that we do not understand all of the views and facts surrounding Maunakea from the Hawaiian cultural perspective.

So firstly, it's wonderful to have a book with a NZ cultural perspective — very Paleo too.

It has charm and a refreshing cultural perspective, but the predictability is often too much to bear, tanking the potential for a proper big screen exploration of lacrosse.

We are aware that as a response and reaction to the predominant presence of social theories rooted in the West, there is a growing recognition of and movement towards understanding theories through the wide range of diverse contextual and cultural perspectives available in the East, and that the production of local theories have started a long time ago.

Educators, including Amita Gupta, discuss cultural perspectives in relation to EYFS.

Three Iraqi natives and a Syrian woman have been enlisted as guides to share a modern cultural perspective with visitors to new Middle Eastern galleries at the Penn Museum.

Presented through all of MUMA's recently designed galleries, the inaugural exhibition sees artists explore performative, media and event cultures, and the post-industrial architecture of the urban fringe, whilst others work with sound, light, sculpture, film, and painting in its diverse and expanded forms, offering a multi-sensory register of art and everyday life, from complex cultural perspectives.

Armory Focus is an invitational section on Pier 94 that spotlights the artistic landscape of a different region each year, bringing together influential galleries, artists and art professionals to present unique geographic and cultural perspectives via gallery presentations, special projects, a dedicated symposium and the annual Armory Artist Commission.

Varied cultural perspectives are explored through visual arts, music, and film.

(SEPT)[By WeistSiréPC] ™ represents a complex examination of the invisible and visible forces that shape our contemporary cultural perspectives.

The theoretical complexity underpinning Lloyd's practice finds its material and processual counterpoint in the synthesis of past and future - combining high and low cultural perspectives, digital and analogue techniques, and traditional and non-traditional artistic imagery and processes.