Schools all over the world are using digital tools to help students collaborate and build
cultural understanding with distant peers.
Because minority principals share experiences and
cultural understandings with students who come from the same background, they can link students, parents, and other educational stakeholders while modeling success for everyone.
Not exact matches
By thinking through small
cultural confrontations, those who live abroad come to
understand their values, preferences, and personalities better, and they carry this self - knowledge
with them when they come home.
Facilitating fun and safe getaways that enrich students
with global
understanding,
cultural enrichment and personal development.
Understanding foreign gifting etiquette is key to navigating
cultural differences and making a splash
with your thoughtfulness.
While a candidate's deep - rooted passion for Saturday Star Trek conventions or service dog training might not sound relevant to your business, how we choose to spend our free time is probably the most honest gauge of what we find intrinsically rewarding, and in entrepreneurship,
understanding these deep motivations could help you put together a team
with similar aims, character and
cultural fit.
«The best way to measure
cultural fit is for the assessor to have a deep
understanding of the culture and then to spend time
with the person being assessed,» Bonnie Hagemann, CEO of Executive Development Associates, tells me by email.
The ECR program is delivered in conjunction
with another service, Postgraduates for International Business (PIB), wherein an international graduate student is assigned to the SME to help the company better
understand the target market context and
cultural differences, and adapt the SME's messages to the host country language.
See, we have to start
with understanding the
cultural forces that have made orthodox Christianity so abhorrent to so many people, including the children of believers.
Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes
with no sense of gods as we
understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a
cultural habit.
My disagreement
with Weigel on this point might be a quibble except that our differing
understandings of what fueled
cultural secularization point to different causes, and thus to different cures.
That this fear of being subsumed by Christianity lingers among Jews today is not surprising given that until recently «dialogue»
with Christians, the wielders of
cultural and political power, usually involved more polemic and proselytizing than
understanding and cooperation.
The concept of
cultural relativism is particularly helpful in connection
with the
understanding of values as one of the expressions of human spirituality.
Instead, if we
understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal
with similar
cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.
Digital utopias disagree
with those who worry about scenarios of worldwide
cultural homogenisation, they see the emergence of new and creative lifestyles, vastly extended opportunities for different cultures to meet and
understand each other, and the creation of new virtual communities that easily cross all the traditional borderlines of age, gender, race, and religion.
Kinnaman says that unless the Church recognises and embraces these
cultural shifts then young adults are unlikely to engage
with the Church because «they can't
understand what we are saying».
«The assumptions that have governed our
understanding of Christian history during the past several centuries were all formed in the European context where the church was identified
with the
cultural and religious majority and attention was focused largely on its institutional life,» Shenk writes.
If I was alone on a desert island
with nothing but the Bible, and no research tools to help me
understand the background and history of who Jesus was and what He taught, and the
cultural and theological forces He was facing, I doubt I ever would have
understood Him in the way that Wright presents here.
At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged
with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be
understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new
cultural patterns.»
Before attempting to describe a biblically based alternative (the «Hebraic» model) to these
cultural models, one more in line
with the inductive play of Peter Berger and C. S. Lewis, let us summarize these common, though inadequate,
understandings.
Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority
with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self -
understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or
cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation
with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.
Political and
cultural commentary is probably best left to people
with a better
understanding than I, but I think it is obvious that the world is in a state of upheaval.
to not
understand the
cultural context of the text as you so well display along
with trying to tie the statement of truth to the holocaust and blame the author (God ultimately) and not the person responsible for twisting scripture is absurd.
While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an
understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement
with the full range of
cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.
However, as
with everything else, there is a lot of wiggle room when it comes to how much historical and
cultural background studies help us
understand the text.
So if I have
understood you rightly it's about learning to be comfortable
with uncertainty, not holding on steadfastly to convictions that either we have come to by our own volition or by
cultural influences.
If
understanding is a closure of meaning that includes an encounter
with the alterity of the text, how can the production of meaning comprehend the complexity of the text as both a «
cultural speech performance» (29) and a code of linguistic signs?
To
understand why and how we must collaborate for a new
cultural and world era, it is important to contrast our contemporary situation
with both the classical and modern periods.
I wonder if «spiritual but not religious» is a bit of a
cultural transitional stage in which it is becoming clear that formal religious dogma is at best intellectually unsatisfying, and at worst not only false but dangerous; and yet we don't really know what to do
with that part of our brain that seeks magical explanations for what we can not easily
understand.
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.
She evokes his delight in «the world» together
with his vivid sense of its brokenness; his dedication to the life of the mind along
with his awareness of the limits of reason; his ease amidst
cultural pluralism and multiple interpretations; his
understanding of choice as always constitutive and often tragic; his struggles
with temptation and doubt.
To deal justly
with the socio - economic situation of Africa, we have to agree to the necessity of social analysis and an
understanding of the historical and
cultural underpinnings of what we experience.
Then more flexible people begin to
understand, and they start to experiment
with the new consensus so that
cultural transformation, this movement from death to life of an entire people, begins to happen.
In an interview
with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis
cultural centre for
understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.
He shows that
with a little
understanding of the
cultural background of these passages, God is not a bloodthirsty warlord, but a merciful God who wants only the best for His creation.
Zens draws attention to these very issues preferring his conclusion as consistent
with an
understanding of the
cultural setting.
And in so far as imagination is fundamental to rational
understanding, its systemic repression in western philosophy is another sign that the natural philosopher must be as deeply concerned
with cultural analysis as
with metaphysical analysis.
Fourth, because of his specialized training in religion, the pastor is able to
understand and deal
with religious elements within the intrapsychic,
cultural, or relational aspects of the experience of the counselee.
«By acknowledging that all our readings are located in a
cultural context and have certain prejudices, we
understand that engaging
with the Bible can never mean that we simply extract meaning from it, but also that we read meaning into it.
Some roles in the business world can be conducted better by those who
understand themselves as professionals and accept a broad
cultural and social responsibility for leadership along
with that for the standards of their profession.
One difference is that today's commentaries hold very little knowledge of Torah culture and even the Jewish dialogue going on in the New Testament and although they have a lot of knowledge, it is diluted by a full
cultural engagement which leaves a lot out
with a very gentile
understanding of Scripture.
I have read snippets from a couple of websites now so that ought to put me on par
with people who've read dozens of books on the topic,
understand neurobiology and have written on both the philosophical and
cultural aspects of free will and people's belief in the topic.
Nevertheless my
understanding of Davids cartoon is that it dealing
with molding a girls body image based on western
cultural bias.
Of course, I am not a theologian or well read or educated in the Bible
with all the pertinent historical,
cultural, or grammatical facts required to
understand and interpret the text in my intellectual grasp, so I may have misunderstood your meaning, missed a point, or maybe we're saying the same thing but each from a different perspective, like is said those who misread Paul's Roman epistle and James» epistle.
Just as when I speak, I draw from the whole background of English, and my prior
understanding of English forms, so the creative artist can draw upon the artistic organs
with which the
cultural history and his own training have endowed him.
This picture of what it is to
understand God tends to have a
cultural location that is characteristically different from the one that correlates
with understanding by way of sapientia or wisdom.
All pictures, and all truth claims, arise in conjunction
with our
cultural practices and
cultural forms of
understanding, which collectively guide our actions.
In The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age (Westminster, 1984), Lindbeck contrasts the
cultural - linguistic
understanding of religion
with the experiential - expressive
understanding assumed by liberals.
In the
cultural context (she had to do certain type of work, so this was a plea for some help
with that workload) it was easier to
understand.
«He has been very impactful in terms of embracing change and engaging
with our members,» Klombies says, noting that Root, for specific
cultural events, has invited members into the club's kitchen to
understand the food preparation methods of different cultures.