Sentences with phrase «understanding group culture»

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We have a diverse group of people, and building community, building culture, understanding all things legal, and being able to develop our company mindfully have been critical.»

In Canada, a group of men and women, largely from the west coast, who were watching the changes across the Pacific believed that if Canada was to adjust to the new Asia, it must understand something of the cultures and policies driving the transformation.

He is striving towards building bridges of understanding that will help bring diverse individuals and groups and cultures together.

Before that Axial Period, each ethnic group had evolved its own culture and language, with its own distinctive way of understanding the world and worshipping the forces of nature.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

Since these groups always understood themselves to be living in various degrees of separation from mainstream American society, the culture's movement away from the churches has not affected them as deeply as it has the once «established» churches.

In all of this it was understood that religion was an activity in process, as social groups sought to achieve more productive adjustment to the factors of the natural and social environment which carry their culture through historical development.

The evolution I love the most is the evolution of human thought to better understand these things that have been provided to us, so we can live better lives... and all true believers feel the same, though they are often limited by their own experiences in various ways — culture, education, social groups, life experiences.

Sociologist and theologian Elaine Storkey, author of Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women, explains that a global pandemic affects women regardless of culture, region or country, or even to particular groups of women in a society.

If there is an inherent «right to marriage» for same - sex couples, religious groups that refuse to marry gay couples are violating their civil rights, which in turn could lead to a repeal of the churches» tax exempt status» or a complete overturn in our law and culture of the religious understanding of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

If we understand these five sounds (which travel across cultures, races, and ethnic groups), referred to as the «precry» stage, we can understand what a baby needs before the full - blown crying begins - what Dunstan calls the «siren.»

Based in Portsmouth, UK About Blog The Port Towns and Urban Cultures group is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the social and cultural contexts of ports across the globe from the early modern period.

He also spoke eloquently on how the image of the tragic black hero, or the flawless black hero, reflects the culture's problem with processing a marginal community as just a group of human beings, and why he didn't want the characters, white and black, in his film to be easily categorized or glibly understood.

In addition, Hill is the co-founder of the Study Group on Race, Culture, and Ethnicity, an interdisciplinary group of scientists who develop theory and methodology for defining and understanding the cultural context within diverse famGroup on Race, Culture, and Ethnicity, an interdisciplinary group of scientists who develop theory and methodology for defining and understanding the cultural context within diverse famgroup of scientists who develop theory and methodology for defining and understanding the cultural context within diverse families

The grant program was developed after September 11 to help teachers and their students better understand Muslim culture and religion and to contradict ideas that all Muslims are terrorists, said Richard Benfield, the program coordinator of the institute and chairman of CCSU's geography studies group.

The goal of the Portland, Ore., public schools» multicultural - education programs, in the words of the district's school board, is to «develop in all students a better understanding and appreciation of the history, culture, and contributions to society of different ethnic groups and cultures.»

In this session, you will deepen your understanding of the ways in which learning groups create as well as transmit culture, values, and democracy within and outside the classroom.

She is the cofounder of the Study Group on Race, Culture, and Ethnicity, an interdisciplinary group of scientists who develop theory and methodology for defining and understanding the cultural context within diverse famiGroup on Race, Culture, and Ethnicity, an interdisciplinary group of scientists who develop theory and methodology for defining and understanding the cultural context within diverse famigroup of scientists who develop theory and methodology for defining and understanding the cultural context within diverse families.

Learner profile: understand how skill level, age group, experience, culture, affect the ability to learn and decisions such as learner autonomy, degree of personalisation, expected style of learning.

Working in collaboration with a diverse group of educators, advocacy groups, community organizations, and policymakers, the project ultimately aims to grow the number of quality schools where all children can have equitable learning outcomes, feel like their culture is valued, learn to live together with appreciation of differences, and be engaged in understanding how to dismantle racism and systemic oppression.

Part group therapy, part empathy - and trust - building exercise, the Councils are at the heart of a new, research - supported understanding of the profound role that healthy communities and school cultures play in children's education.

These struggles for students reflect a process of learning that we all must face in adult life: understanding unfamiliar languages, cultures and social contexts when working with groups of people in every sphere, from business to education and health.

Students use reflection to better understand the actions of individuals and groups in specific situations and how these are shaped by culture.

They come to understand how personal, group and national identities are shaped, and the variable and changing nature of culture.

They also gain an understanding of and are able to challenge what is valued in terms of health and physical activity within their families, social groups, institutions and society, and within other cultures in the broader community.

Students study the vibrant culture of the Jews who lived in the shtetls in eastern Europe, while also deepening their understanding of prejudice toward minority groups.

These data allow the reader to begin to understand what the culture of schooling means to Mexican children and families and, hopefully, how to emulate strategically this culture in feasible ways that promote meaningful educational experiences and outcomes for Mexican immigrant children in the U.S. Specifically, data discussing el grupo escolar (the school group), el turno matutino vs. el turno vespertino (morning vs. afternoon shifts), and el comité de padres (the parent committee) are presented.

In order to work effectively with families from diverse backgrounds, schools professionals need to understand the culture of the families they work with, and design outreach and communication strategies that respond to the specific social, cultural and linguistic needs and values of that group.

While writing culture assignment, you must understand that culture comprises of the total of inherited ideas, beliefs, values and knowledge accepted by people in a particular society or in a particular organization.It is the behavior that results when a group adopts a set of generally unspoken and unwritten rules for working together.

We provided funding for three projects relevant to specific animal advocacy interventions, namely, a humane education field experiment, an experiment testing the effects of real and virtual contact with farmed animals, and a series of focus groups and survey experiments to understand consumer attitudes towards and willingness - to - pay for cultured meat.

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Based in Portsmouth, UK About Blog The Port Towns and Urban Cultures group is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the social and cultural contexts of ports across the globe from the early modern period.

This is a small group (maximum 6 people) cultural tour hosted by Westerners that can help you truly understand the Balinese culture by taking you on a leisurely short ride through sleepy traditional villages and farmlands in the District of Kintamani, with breathtaking scenery.

Based in Portsmouth, UK About Blog The Port Towns and Urban Cultures group is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the social and cultural contexts of ports across the globe from the early modern period.

Through tours, group discussions, and hands - on art and design workshops, students develop an understanding of how Japanese culture and its unique art forms have inspired creative pursuits around the world.

In the group exhibition «The Projective Drawing» at Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY), curator Brett Littman applies Evans's theory, which is skeptical of drawing at its core, to challenge our understanding of how the medium of drawing operates in contemporary culture by highlighting both Austrian and international artists whose drawings require viewers to activate a matrix of complex and nontraditional ideas in order to interpret the works on view.

Despite the loss of separation and individuality of the two different subcultures during the machinations of the commodification of Culture, this particular Graffuturist group exhibition, as well as the previous two, are significant steps in acknowledging the sub-subculture of Progressive Graffiti, and then defining and maintaining an understanding of it within Graffiti culture and mass CCulture, this particular Graffuturist group exhibition, as well as the previous two, are significant steps in acknowledging the sub-subculture of Progressive Graffiti, and then defining and maintaining an understanding of it within Graffiti culture and mass Cculture and mass CultureCulture.

Group Material also focused on art and elements of mass culture that they understood as overlooked, forgotten, and outside the mainstream in order to investigate critically how museums and exhibitions assist in the formation of American identity.

The select group of emerging artists all «share an interest in the interplay between images and objects, and the ways in which rapidly changing visual culture and imaging technology influence how we understand and perceive the world around us,» according to a press release.

About the M&A Practice: «The M&A group at Foley Hoag has a strong following in the life sciences, financial institutions and forestry sectors... Sources say «The attorneys work tirelessly to understand the client's business culture and philosophy.

- Identifying the characteristics of successful partners and leaders so that women (and men who are not «connected» to power sources within the firm) understand what it takes to be successful in the culture of their firm (i.e. books of business, managing teams, practice group status within the firm, management skills, who you know).

Anthropologists have also started looking at how people use Facebook and applying some of the thinking related to oral cultures and groups in order to understand how they work.

Majoring in Anthropology involves studying the origins of human culture and how people behave in collective groups — having a fundamental understanding of how people behave is an essential skill for market research.

Have you written a major paper on understanding a culture for a sociology class, or conducted a group project for a religious studies course on the social impact on religious - based community organizations?

According to John Willis, Mission Development & Social Justice Manager from St Vincent's, the hospital formed a focus group of the different professional groups working in the department, and asked what they understood about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patient care in their area, and what they knew themselves about Aboriginal culture.

Fostering Resilient Coping in Children Exposed to Violence: Cultural Considerations Graham - Bermann & Halabu (2004) In Protecting Children From Domestic Violence: Strategies for Community Intervention View Abstract Uses examples from two culturally competent groups for children to illustrate the need to understand the wide range of circumstances experienced by children, the role of the therapist, the appropriateness of interventions, and the importance of recognizing positive aspects of the child's culture.

Working with cultural consultant groups to inform practice and to understand and address culture and race at key decision points in the life of the case

For over 25 years Nina has worked in the human relations field, locally and internationally, promoting a culture of peace by helping individuals, couples and groups to understand and appreciate the values and differences of others.

In contrast, the emic framework considers the meaning of a given concept, practice and principle for members of a cultural group, and is a more unbiased approach to understand how culture influences child development.

My role is to teach this intern and all trainees, how facilitators, through their understanding of stages of group development, assist in creating norms that build a culture of trust and vulnerability.