Sentences with phrase «how cultural experiences»

Continuing my effort to study how cultural experiences affect students, I am conducting an experiment in which school groups can win free tickets to see live theater performances.

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HRT: One of the most difficult aspects of that year spent in Jordan was the loneliness and isolation that you experience being in a foreign culture and how you're often misunderstood just because of the cultural differences, and how alienating that can feel.

As for the latter, those worried about another Catholic slide into incoherence should have faith in the ecclesial experience of the last three decades, which has taught enduring lessons about how Catholicism can not merely survive, but flourish, amidst the cultural acids of post-modernity — if it holds fast to a dynamic orthodoxy lived with compassion and solidarity.

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

His experience is one that questions and pushes against what is affirmed by the environment he was raised in and studied in and confirmed in.I'm not denying that David's cartoons represent his experience in his «church» I'm turning up (best I can) the limitation of that experience and how his version (Zombie pastor preaching re-chewing of the mind as transformational) is 1) a sad and pathetic reduction of the cultural tradition and 2) is evidence of his own ongoing entrapment.

This article examines Whitehead's theory of perception to indicate how this theory provides a philosophical reinterpretation for two issues of concern to feminists: criticism of cultural symbols, including language, and the importance of intuition and emotion, usually associated with women, in experience.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

CHRISTINE STEWART - FITZGERALD: Au pairs are, I mean they're providing a service of childcare and helping around the house in that regard, but in addition to childcare I mean, having au pair is really truly a cultural experience, so where do most of the au pairs come from and you know, how do they benefit from the program?

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

With factual information based on scientific research and personal experience, the author explains the difference between «ecological» and «cultural» breastfeeding and how each method affects fertility.

Smaller missions, such as to Kenya (1988) to attend an inquest into the death of a man who had been tortured and document how the court applied the medical evidence, and to the Sudan (1990) to investigate the jailing of physicians and scientists, provided experiences for AAAS to contribute directly to individual human rights cases as well as learn lessons on the political and cultural complexities of human rights work.

But he adds that cultural experiences are still important in shaping how a person perceives sounds.

Even in Europe, where working relationships tend to be less strict, the cultural experience helps her think about how she can make sure her interactions with others are respectful.

Laland and his colleagues instead argue for «a very different model of how the mind works,» he says, in which the human mind is much more plastic, and perhaps more akin to a collection of musical instruments awaiting a jam session; the tune they will play depends more on developmental and cultural experiences than on engrained compositions.

Examples might be a manuscript that examines social - cognitive processes and their relevance to the etiology of depression, a manuscript that examines how the interaction between two brain regions places people at risk for anxiety disorders, or a manuscript that examines how cultural variables shape the experience or expression of schizophrenia (of course, these are only three potential examples among hundreds).

I CAN give practical advice (from personal experiences, not only from books) on how to overcome cultural differences in your relationship, and much more.

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We're immersed in such rich cultural history every day, it's easy to lose sight of just how many things we have to explore and experience.

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

More than just a portrait of contemporary black society, it's a story of cultural differences between parents and children of how individuals learn (or don't learn) from experience, and of how there should be no place for those who cause violence and strife.»

In the following interviews, assistant editor Ross Brenneman talks with two principals of color about how they mitigate bias within their schools, infuse cultural competency into instruction, and use their life experiences to anchor their leadership.

How team members interact with one another, how they experience failure and success, and the clarity and focus of their collective mission are cultural factors that play a significant role in a team's succeHow team members interact with one another, how they experience failure and success, and the clarity and focus of their collective mission are cultural factors that play a significant role in a team's succehow they experience failure and success, and the clarity and focus of their collective mission are cultural factors that play a significant role in a team's success.

The book also describes how these experiences — along with the greater cultural discourse on teenage sexuality, unwed motherhood, race, and class — influence the girls» own self - images.

I decided to invite families from the same cultural background who'd had similar misgivings about sending their children away to come back and speak to parents from their community about how positive the experience can be for students and their families.

how European society experienced political, economic, and cultural transformations in an age of global intercommunication, 1450 - 1750.

To enhance e-assessments and implement them successfully, we need to understand how ICT can be used to improve assessment experiences, provide evidence of higher - level learning, and explore its institutional and pedagogic dimensions while addressing sustainability and cultural issues (Guàrdia, Cris & Alsina, 2016).

CFP funding contributes to the initiation of an approximately 18 - month investigation focused on how to communicate with policymakers about building resilience, including the concept of «buffering» experiences and relationships, epigenetics as a process underlying resilience, the cultural and biological components of resilience, and interventions related to both building resilience and addressing the apparent lack of resilience in young children.

Opening doors of opportunity Within the context of formal education the subject supports personal, social, moral, spiritual, cultural and creative development, and enables participants to engage with and explore visual, tactile and other sensory experiences and how to recognise and communicate ideas and meanings.

The United States has many lessons it can learn from how other countries are deploying virtual education and how it might partner up with those countries in different ways to offer a wider range of educational and cultural experiences to its students.

Once at HGSE, Mundy - Shephard credits two courses — Associate Professor John Diamond's Race, Class, and Educational Inequality and Assistant Professor Natasha Warikoo's Cultural Explanations for Ethnic and Racial Inequality in Education — with prompting her to consider how the intersection of racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs).

Blair, who received an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship, was interested in how cultural logics influence individuals» understandings of their relationship experiences.

In the prior learning experiences, learners collected information through inquiry into (1) the extant norms and practices of a school's professional learning environment and (2) the cultural and historical context of that professional learning environment, with emphasis on how these norms and the cultural - historical context bear on the experiences of students of color and those situated in poverty.

His recent work analyzes the social, educational and cultural experiences of Black male K — 12 teachers who have been effective in addressing the academic and social needs of Black male youth, and how the practices and pedagogy translate to all teachers meeting the needs of vulnerable populations of students.

For example, how are schools recognizing English language learners» strengths and integrating their cultural experiences, background knowledge, and home language skills into the learning environment?

Talk about the ways that PTP teachers helped students to understand how their personal perspectives and cultural experiences influence how they construct knowledge.

I am currently involved in projects examining teacher recruitment and retention in constrained labor and housing markets, how school sorting processes affect student opportunities to learn, and how educator - initiated curricula that center the cultural and historical experiences of traditionally marginalized students impact student outcomes.

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.

We examine how, using MALP, the teacher was able to encourage active participation, develop a sense of community, and reduce the cultural dissonance (Ibarra, 2001) that students were experiencing.

Mary E. Dilworth will lead a discussion that probes beneath the surface to recognize and explain how the current generation of teachers and those of color, in particular, have a distinctly different mindset than their baby boomer and generation X predecessors; what habits of mind and experiences contribute to their understanding of quality teaching and student learning; what constitutes good and useful preparation and practice; and what processes and policies accommodate cultural responsiveness and allow for all students to meet their full potential.

It's fascinating to see how the same experiences can be so different depending upon your cultural lenses.

Jhumpa Lahiri discusses the cultural conflicts of growing up in America as the child of immigrants and how the experience of writing her first novel differed from writing the short stories in the Pulitzer prize - winning Interpreter of Maladies.

So it is perhaps of no surprise that there are favorite themes that readers return to again and again — such as billionaires, cowboys or babies — but also that other trends come and go, depending on the current cultural climate and how it affects what reading experience women are looking for.

Claire likes to read cross cultural fiction and non-fiction, works that take us out of our own cultural experience into another, or that give us an alternative perspective on how we appear to the outsider.

A look at Muslim life through the eyes of a child, sharing family experiences; the warm illustrations and cultural details remind us how similar we are.

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She shows you how to experience places like a local and break down cultural and western media stereotypes.

«At the FOR - SITE Foundation, we've seen firsthand how thought provoking and inspiring it is for the general public to experience contemporary art in dialogue with our natural and cultural environment,» said Haines.

We'll talk about this nature island with Alwin Bully about the UNESCO cultural icons on Dominica and how the focus now is on preserving the land and the culture, as well as the culinary experiences.

Joining Peter on the air will be Auntie Nettie, a spiritual and cultural curator at the resort who discusses the island's spirits and how she wants people to experience and enjoy the location of Ko Olina.

Don discussed what the day - to - day life of a travel writer is like, how to approach travel as a pilgrimage, traveling to sensitive places that need to be preserved, the cultural effects travelers have on the places they visit, how best to visit areas that are politically volatile, how travel writing enhances the experience of travel, and figuring out the meaning of life.