Sentences with phrase «cultural practices like»

Cultural practices like aborting female fetuses, female infanticide and the deprivation of nutrition to girls and women, which guarantees that millions of girls are never even born or mature to become second class citizens, needs to be incorporated into the human rights discourse and instruments.85

Some, Harris points out, import cultural practices like female genital mutilation (FGM) with them when they come.

Not exact matches

Sorry if I'm distracting from your explanation of what the cultural practice of biblical adoption actually was like.

Gradually, however, the realities of cultural politics are becoming evident even to secular academics, and some political scientists have developed survey items that distinguish among religious traditions as well as levels of religious commitment (the latter measured by church attendance, devotional practices, and the like).

It looks at cultural issues like what were the common practices and beliefs of people in that time and place that this book was written to?

And yes, we understand that many of our current practices are not exactly like what was once practiced.There are differing degrees of interest and emphasis in cultural and historical accuracy depending upon the Pagan path one is investigating.

It tells your provider how you feel about things like who you want with you during labor, what you want to do during labor, if you want drugs to help with labor pain, and if there are special religious or cultural practices you want to have happen once your baby is born.

I'd like to see new cultural practices arise that express gratitude for what the planet does for us, even a sense of humility.

I'd like to see new cultural practices arise that express gratitude for what the planet does.

... Even their expectations about what mentoring and advising look like may differ across cultural and national boundaries,» warns Daniel Denecke, associate vice president of programs and best practices at the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), in an interview with Science Careers.

It's actually like a cultural practice and a spiritual practice as well.

«Very often, when schools roll out programs to address perceived problems or change cultural direction, there may be an overhaul of practice, the purchase of prepackaged materials, outside consultants, and the like.

All of that begins in teacher preparation programs which must include a focus on content, an understanding of cultural diversity and a strong clinical experience where prospective teachers can watch experienced teachers in action and practice under their supervision - kind of like a medical residency.

It was OK, they said, to call a Greek - Australian friend «Souvlaki» and an Indian friend «Curry» because this was an accepted, cultural practice in Australia: «that's just how we live today, like, in our society».

We have to work on cultural issues, like gathering the collective commitments, collaborating and setting goals as I have talked about in other blogs AND we have to work on classroom practice.

I tried to get film dozens of days, taught * two * full month long inquiry science units (easily 4xs the hours of teaching my cohort peers were doing) with tons of academic language support and data analysis, student - driven socio - cultural strategies galore, NGSS - aligned and focusing on lesser - done practices like computational thinking.

Research has previously shown that differences in cultural and social capital can have repercussions in areas as diverse as use of language by the time children enter school, preferential access to grammar and faith schools, the type of characteristics parents value when choosing schools, the kind of studies children undertake and their access to more prestigious universities, or even the adoption of cultural practices linked to substantial cognitive gains like reading for pleasure.

This exhibition uses these five artists / artist groups» as case studies to trace how their collaborative practices and alternative cultural infrastructures functioned like laboratories for testing the political possibilities of experimental artist - run spaces.

The artist has said of this new series that, as with a previous body of work in which he articulated a fascination with Futurism, he is «exploring new ways of interpreting a definitive and somewhat overlooked period in cultural history, developing works centred around the kinds of characters who populate my practice, imagining who is the boy / man who would make this sort of space his own, what his home might look like... and what sort of psychosis would lead to this?»

The artists included in the show represent different eras and cultural voices, from Native American artists, like the late Fritz Scholder, to contemporary performance artist Raul Baltazar (MFA Public Practice» 13).

The intervention artworks will speak to themes both present and absent from the exhibition, such as NASA's lunar landing, the legacy of iconic post-war artists like Joseph Beuys and Robert Morris, the rise of collaborative artistic practices, and the cultural and political affects of the Civil Rights movement.

digital collages that explore racial and cultural ambiguity through visual hybridity, like the work of each artist in this exhibition, demonstrate that late 20th - century predictions of the end of traditional fine «art» practice at the dawn of digital culture were simply wrong.

Holcombe: I will be doing more studio visits with the artists and doing video interviews, writing on individual works like highlighting a piece, talking more about historical influences or cultural influence on the artist, things that show that this is a deliberate practice.

Like many young artists of the time, he grappled with the legacies of minimalism and cultural studies, the relation between politics and art, and his own identification as a gay, HIV - positive artist who nonetheless eschewed identity politics as the basis of an art practice.

Like Lee's performative practice, which imagines conversations between disparate cultural figures, the photographs proceed with both major and minor shifts in place and time, accumulating in an imaginative meditation on how individuals might meet in a larger discourse.

Mining fields like education, cinema, psychology, literature and art history in her practice, she examines cultural models for fostering individuality.

The cultural suburbs (like Atlanta, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Wichita, Detroit, etc.) are still wild, largely unexplored, weird, and full of unexpected opportunity for artistic practice.

The AR movement at first may seem like a novelty, but a closer look reveals interdisciplinary perspectives that involve aesthetic explorations of blended realities as a new kind of artistic practice and cultural space.

When asked to explain what cultural competence looks like in practice across this continuum, Bhasin describes a lawyer who can identify, understand, and adjust to cultural dimensions of others» behaviour.

Subject matter experts will provide cultural competency training, and will teach soft skills such as interviewing and problem solving for clients, as well as new skills and strategies for serving people in under - served practice areas like family law and administrative law.

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The CLE will provide cultural competency training, and will look at soft skills such as interviewing and problem solving for clients, as well as new skills and strategies for serving clients in under - served practice areas like family law and administrative law.

I would have thought that Quebec, like the rest of Canada, would want immigrants of all beliefs and cultures to integrate as thoroughly as possible into our society, and barring them from public sector work (or voting) for observing the religious or cultural practices of their homelands, or their parents» homelands, will not help their integration.

Like Del Rey's flowery prose about thoughts and vibrations, they're an embrace of an aesthetic, rather than a rigorous practice with cultural and religious significance.

As previously reported at Croakey, the concept of cultural safety reverses the gaze so that health professionals examine their own beliefs, behaviours and practices as well as issues such as institutional racism, whereas transcultural concepts like cultural awareness can promote the «other - ing» of patients and «cultural voyeurism».

Like other speakers, Phillips pointed to factors that can drive change in health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people — embedding cultural safety standards in health and within national law, decolonising practices on a personal and systemic basis, and understanding the essential role of Indigenous knowledge in the delivery of services.

Like Berber rugs, Kilims are steeped in cultural practices, with weaving methods varying across Turkey, North Africa and areas of the Middle East.