Sentences with phrase «cultural setting»

Today the gospel is given very different interpretations by people in different cultural settings.

These girls were not alone, and although they reflected a particular cultural setting, partner violence is not unusual anywhere.

In my cross cultural setting, one aspect of this is to be aware of where our church plants are taking on traits of our own home culture instead of the local culture.

The aim of comparative management course is to introduce you to the subject of comparative management and management practices in various cultural settings.

For the same reason the religious beliefs and allegiance of a man are nearly always those of his own family, or of his immediate cultural setting.

Although the German cultural setting has kept him from serious engagement with feminist theologians and other representatives of liberation theology I would not be surprised to see him take those movements more seriously.

The ability to explore various ecological and cultural settings attracts many young researchers to their respective disciplines.

Problems can also arise when it comes to working in an unfamiliar cultural setting.

This outer circle says that God's Word comes to fruition only in terms of the particular cultural setting of the hearers.

The central purpose of professional church leadership is apologia — that is, to formulate and defend theories or «doctrines» about God's truth and God's justice for Christian communities worldwide to apply in their lives in diverse cultural settings.

Such findings highlight the way in which preschool behavior problems may vary within specific cultural settings and underscore the need for in - depth research to explore the contexts.

«Brainstorming, a technique often used to generate novel ideas such as new product innovations, might not be equally effective across cultural settings.

Howard Gardner viewed intelligence as «the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural setting» (Gardner & Hatch, 1989).

Candidates for the title «an intelligence» had to satisfy a range of these criteria and must include, as a prerequisite, the ability to resolve «genuine problems or difficulties» (ibid.: 60) within certain cultural settings.

Whilst these normative data provide important information for future researchers and clinicians who wish to use the SDQ in China, the overall usefulness of these scales in this setting is dependent on the SDQ, originally designed for use in a Western cultural setting, proving to be reliable and valid in a Chinese population.

Not a re-invention, I know, but something that seems adaptable to most cultural settings.

The film is directed with a keen eye for natural beauty, and the Vienna countryside is captured elegantly without seeming superfluous, inducting cultural setting into the film without turning the romantic nature of the setting into a cliché.

Second, in our present cultural setting the AA emphasis on a physical component in alcoholism is» probably more effective than the concept of psychological causation in reducing the guilt - fear load and facilitating therapeutic change.

«Adaptation» is sometimes taken to mean that particular teachings are merely to be adapted to relevant cultural settings; for instance, reinterpreting Western thought from an Asian perspective.

And in that mixed cultural setting I was not always sure what it meant to be a Christian.

In our personal involvement with scripture, it is easy to forget that these texts were written by authors who lived in a time, a place, a historical and cultural setting very different from ours.

By the same token, however, they are deeply rooted in larger cultural settings that shape them.

The film's mid-section is engaging in its social cultural setting and the Léon-esque tropes in Salvo and Rita's developing relationship, but at a solid fifty or so minutes this goes on far too long and my interest had began to wane by the time the third act slings one headlong into full Western territory comprised of a dust - bowl stand - off in a ghost - town and a blood - soaked elopement.

From the idealised human forms of the Greeks to Assyrian palace reliefs, find out more about sculpture and its use in different cultural settings worldwide.

in an authentic cultural setting by sharing cultural values with their peers at a school in Puerto Rico

The Dunmer (Dark Elves) have an interesting cultural setting, and the story lines I played through felt like classic Elder Scrolls and are definitely something you should look forward to.

If he had lived longer, Louis's ga - ga play might have acquired an entire cultural setting: Berryman's babble; Roethke's rickety rhythms... There is a cartoon quality in, for example, Para 1 of 1959, that hints at a parallel to their boozy babytalk.

She has worked at some of the most significant cultural settings of her generation including North Carolina's avant - garde Black Mountain College and Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, NY in the 1950s.

Artists in Prospect.4 will explore many of these histories and themes and how they relate to contemporary geographical and cultural settings around the world.»

The FTI is applicable in cultural settings other than the USA.

Our positive findings in the Finnish health care provide strong support for the applicability of the FTI in new cultural settings, albeit within the Western cultural sphere.

It is therefore essential that the reliability and validity of the SDQ continues to be assessed across differing cultural settings, particularly in situations such as in China, where issues of tradition or social structure and organization may result in subtle alterations in the meaning of specific items which could impact on reliability and validity.

I enjoy working with children in diverse cultural settings, and I find great satisfaction in passing along my passion for learning, technology, graphic design, photography, writing, adventure, and self - determination to my students.

Teaching practice, as a cultural action, occurs in specific cultural settings and evolves in ways that can reflect the underlying cultural values advocated and nurtured by the wider society (Leung, 1995; Li & Shimizu, 2009).

We know the lies we tell to others; the lies we tell to ourselves are a bit harder to discern; but the only way really to grasp the lies we don't even know we are living is to get outside our own cultural setting.

Gardner defines intelligence broadly as «the capacity to solve problems or fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural setting.»

We saw that «the gospel» itself has meaning only as we recognize that it always comes out of one particular cultural setting and enters into the new setting of those who hear it.

The Cultural Awareness, Respect, and Engagement (C.A.R.E.) Toolkit was developed to assist home visitors to engage and serve diverse populations and improve practice in cross cultural settings.

Rather, they suggest that spanking kids may be less harmful in certain cultural settings.

In this way, students use intercultural understanding to comprehend and create a range of texts that present diverse cultural perspectives, and to empathise with a variety of people and characters in various cultural settings.

These findings suggest that there is considerable similarity in the social processes underlying peer group victimization across South Korean and Western cultural settings.

Cultural competence (sometimes referred to as «cultural intelligence») is the ability to adapt, work and manage successfully in new and unfamiliar cultural settings.

From our example of social inhibition or reticence, one can begin to understand that behaviors, when exhibited across cultural settings may take the same form; however, the function of these behaviors varies from culture - to - culture.

Faced with dwindling numbers and an ageing infrastructure, especially in the traditionally strong Catholic bastions of the nation's largest cities, painful decisions must be made about how best to continue the mission of proclaiming the Gospel in a dramatically different cultural setting.