Sentences with phrase «how cultural beliefs»

Check out one of NWEI's cornerstone discussion course books, Reconnecting With Earth, and explore how our cultural beliefs and personal values affect the way we view and treat our planet.
Reconnecting With Earth explores how our cultural beliefs and personal values affect the way we view and treat Earth.

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That moment encapsulates a lot about what is at the center of Cole's belief system about people and about how to do business: Focus on the positive, even across a wide experiential or cultural background.
So, it's intriguing to me how Christians, for instance, from different first language groups can * seem * to have the same belief structures, but still end up with lots of different cultural conflicts.
@Bill, Pray tell me which Bible I follow, where is my church, what are my cultural and belief systems, how am I supposed to practice sacrifices, matrimonial and funerary services, meditation and prayer?
I believe one huge miracle is finally happening in the world that is getting people to integrate amongst each other, regardless of race, sex, religious belief, sexuality, cultural differences, etc. and that it is in this that more people are challenging what is understood of the world around us, our place in it, and how God works through all of it.
Sociologists also deal with such topics as the components of culture, i.e., beliefs, values, language, and norms; cultural dynamics; cultural integration; cultural change; ideal culture, what people profess to follow, and real culture, how people actually behave in relation to these claims; ethnocentrism, the proclivity to see one's culture as the best and consequently all others as inferior; and cultural relativity.
Exploring and reframing cultural beliefs and attitudes towards women in the childbirth process: how do our cultural beliefs affect our adaptation to the birth process?
I read the book when I was pregnant (again thankfully) and was shocked to learn how many common parenting beliefs I'd assumed were simply «facts» were completely (U.S.) cultural and even flew in the face of our basic biology / evolution.
How do cultural and religious beliefs influence the choice of food?
We also discuss how the same underlying cultural beliefs that supported the idea that infants sleep best alone serve presently to permit the acceptance of an inappropriate set of assumptions related to explaining why some babies die unexpectedly while sleeping in their parents beds.9 These assumptions are that regardless of circumstances, including maternal motivations and / or the absence of all known bedsharing risk factors, even nonsmoking, sober, breastfeeding mothers place their infants at significantly increased risk for SUID by bedsharing.
Influence of beliefs Cultural beliefs and attitudes especially affect how a family perceives a child's illness, the health care and treatment options available to them, and what they decide about where and when to seek help.
What we don't want to see, of course, is any kind of dilution in how thoroughly children are taught about the beliefs, religious or otherwise, of others, since such education plays a vital role in contributing to community cohesion and to literary, historical and cultural education.
Dr Bunning said: «What tends to happen is that these types of cultural beliefs affect how individuals with disabilities view themselves and how other people see them.
Structure, Culture and Career Investments» by Stephen Sweet, analyzes data collected from employees in 11 countries to determine if gender differences in career centrality — the importance of one's career to their identity — exist, and examines how those differences relate to professional demands, gender role beliefs and cultural expectations.
«Education guidelines also need to be developed for health care practitioners on how to account for cultural health beliefs in consultation in order to identify barriers to diabetes management.
Elisa Bandini explained, «The commonly held belief is that chimpanzee behaviour is cultural, much like how human culture has been passed between groups.
The Cultural Cognition Project is a group of scholars interested in studying how cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy Cultural Cognition Project is a group of scholars interested in studying how cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy beliefs.
Dr. Keesha has published articles and books and conducted research primarily on adrenal fatigue, emotional pain, cultural and spiritual values, and cognitive beliefs and how they affect female sexual desire and vitality.
Many Jewish people, regardless of how closely they follow traditional beliefs and customs, believe in marrying another Jews for their shared cultural beliefs and family values.
«The best education around gender violence and the most effective by far in working with men,» says Katz, «is having honest conversations about how cultural attitudes and beliefs about manhood... both contribute to perpetration and, in many cases, impede men's and young men's likelihood of challenging and interrupting abuse.»
Their paper, «Institutional Complexity and the Embedded Logics of Public School Reform,» employs a unique methodological approach to examine how teachers» beliefs about instructional reforms are informed by the logics of broad cultural institutions.
Students explore how people interact across cultural boundaries and the notion of citizenship, the contribution of diverse cultural influences through migration and media, and the critical role of shared beliefs and values in an evolving Australian identity.
While cultural events such as international food night are important in raising awareness of the global community, their isolation from the daily instructional time leads to missing opportunities to look deeper into other's values and beliefs, and how these shape each of our worlds.
She is interested in how teachers» beliefs and perceptions are shaped by their lived experiences and cultural histories and have an impact on how they view students with disabilities in the educational setting.
Far too many schools find the cultural beliefs and essential practices of RTI such a radical departure from how schools have functioned for the past century that they are uncomfortable and unwilling to commit to the level of change necessary to succeed.
Featuring 28 works by 19 artists — both black and white — the exhibition explores how visual perspectives of blackness «have been influenced at particular historical moments by specific political, cultural, and aesthetic interests, as well as the motives and beliefs of the artists.»
Opening on September 20, we the people brings together recent acquisitions in contemporary art with key loans to explore definitions of selfhood and to reflect on how individuals find solidarity with one another through shared beliefs, values, and cultural systems.
She is interested in belief systems, ideas of truth, power and pleasure, and how cultural memories are re-made and distorted according to the needs of each era.
I appropriate familiar objects and social events, which are universally recognisable within specific cultural contexts (games, souvenirs), to invite audiences to take a look at the society that they live in, often revealing underlying belief systems, drawing audiences into a series of questions that ask «how do we come to know what it is that we know» — Yara El - Sherbini, 2015
His practice is driven by his interest in the semiotic function of images and texts: how they are used to form both personal and cultural meaning, values, and beliefs.
Explore how both personal values and cultural beliefs affect the way we view and treat the Earth.
The central goal of this study was to see what «belief in scientific consensus» measures — to see how it relates to both knowledge of climate science and cultural identity.
However, bias against any group whether it is women or people from a different cultural background or sexual orientation is often unconscious and requires educating ourselves about our hidden beliefs and how this belief shows up in our actions.
Our instructor was named Cliff (he taught all three segments), and he regularly made fun of the various belief systems of different ethnic / cultural groups (including his own) and how those beliefs would impact our ability to make commissions.
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