Sentences with phrase «significant cultural settings»

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.

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We may conclude, then, that goal - setting and purposive activity is a fundamental factor in cultural evolution, and that final causes — in the form of externalized teleologies — play a significant role in the activities and social relationships of human beings.

Lifelong learning arrangements, particularly those in informal and non-formal settings, can confer a number of benefits: they can provide people who live in countries that do not have universal education with access to learning opportunities on a continuous basis; they can address the problem of conventional formal schooling being too far removed from local cultural and social environments; and they can alleviate economic hardship, particularly for young people in developing countries who may experience strong pressures to earn income to help support their families or, particularly if they are girls, to take on significant responsibilities at home (1, 4).

While these biologically diverse and rich cultural environments have long met the criteria to be set aside as a national park, it wasn't until March 5, 1980 that President Jimmy Carter signed Public Law 96 - 199, establishing Channel Islands National Park as the fortieth national park thus protecting the nationally significant natural, cultural, scenic and scientific values of the Channel Islands.

Ballroom Marfa is particularly interested in helping artists and curators achieve projects that have significant cultural impact but would be impossible to realize in a traditional gallery or museum setting.

Inspired by the occasion of the upcoming exhibition, Caribbean: Crossroads of the World (June 2012), Tam and Iwasaki set out to address the significant void of Asian cultural traces in the region.

It involves data sets and infrastructure, she said, but data can also be cultural artefacts or even the location of significant sites.

The Charter is significant as it explictly acknowledges the right to health as one of its three guiding principles, and, as such recognises «everyone's right to have the highest possible standard of physical and mental health»; as well as specific rights in relation to participation and cultural respect (as set out in text box 7, below).