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.
Not exact matches
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.