Sentences with phrase «urban context as»

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He launched The Rebuild Initiative in 2011 to answer the call to see more churches planted in the urban context, and he currently serves as the president of The Rebuild Initiative.

There was also a need we saw within the urban context for life skills such as managing finances, so we decided to do something about it.

On the basis that the context of practice in BC would be important in relation to the challenges that midwives would experience and the strategies that they would use, midwives with at least 5 years» experience as a midwife in BC were selected from a list of registered midwives, to reflect possible variations in experiences between midwives working in urban and rural locations across BC (lower mainland, Vancouver Island, the interior and Northern BC), and between those working as solo, midwifery group and collaborative practitioners (midwives and family doctors sharing a caseload).

This once prevailing thesis propagates national contexts as dominant, hegemonial conditioning factors which reach across states, including regional and local identities and discourses, whether urban or not.

Mary: Even when the legislative environment is inclusive and extends educational opportunities to refugee learners, as we see in the Kenyan context, national security threats can roll back any progress made by refugee students in gaining access to national schools, as fear and xenophobia trigger government crackdowns on relocating urban refugees back to the camps or their countries of origin under the guise of «voluntary repatriation.»

In an urban context, such as the one I work in, aligning resources toward deeper learning is an imperative: Deeper learning significantly contributes to educational equity.

As part of the larger TFA model, each region believes that one day all kids can receive a great education, but how to reach that is specific to each region, especially given its unique local context, whether in a large urban area or small rural area.

In this context, is it any wonder that organizations like the Black Alliance for Educational Options, and urban legislators like Wisconsin's Polly Williams, have promoted school choice as an avenue for escaping the «savage inequalities» of inner - city schools?

However, given as a list, none appear to have any particular emphasis (i.e., learning theories (# 5) seems as important as parent communication (# 13) and motivation (# 4)-RRB-; they are not tailored to fit the needs of teachers in any specific context (i.e., urban or rural, turnaround or successful); and they do not consider the developmental stage of the student as it relates to each topic.

Most features of the context in which teachers work are viewed as more positive in rural as compared to urban schools.

Most recently, she has been studying teacher education programs that focus on preparing teachers for particular contexts, such as urban public schools, and exploring the advantages of such focused preparation for new teachers, and their students — work that is...

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Mixed tenure communities as a policy instrument for educational outcomes in a deprived urban context?

We drove the car around in a variety of situations both in the mountains as well as in an urban context and discovered that it is a major attention puller thanks to its great design, in your face, stance and proportions.

She explores the possibilities of performance art as a way to continue her research on the relationship between people and objects, and to further investigate the commoditization of culture, assimilation, and how cultural meaning is transformed in the multicultural urban environment and is absorbed into new social contexts.

Inspired by the High Line as an ambulatory space experienced most naturally in motion, Wanderlust extends the tradition of Conceptual art wherein the act of walking served as an inspiration for many artists who explored life both in the urban context and in an ambivalent confrontation with nature.

Her paintings investigate the effect spaces and suburban settings have on an individual's emotions and behaviour as well as how people use space in an urban context.

This January, in his first exhibition with the Goodman Gallery, Gerhard Marx presents new works that are born out of his own self - designed processes, which involve skillful manipulation of materials collected as part of an engagement with the artist's physical urban context.

As she often does in her solo shows, Lidén also presents new works that draw on the surrounding urban context of Bolzano, like a series of sculptures made from pieces of road surface: the artist literally brings the street into the venue.

The work investigates the role of shoes as status symbol in the urban context, elevating the role of the shoe shiner as the provider of a tool for ascension.

Kim Córdova looks at recent evolutions in Francis Alÿs's interventions in the social and urban fabrics of cities, as he moves from Mexico City to a more international context.

«I was more interested in the urban environment then, but I realised that we represent ourselves better as artists when we work in a natural context.

Colab's core concern with the issue of gentrification will be used as a paradigm to understand how New York City, the urban context that surrounds the shows and their restaging, has drastically mutated in the past three decades, even though some issues have remained the same.

In this sense, Multiplicity strives to present images and ideas as different and distinct as the urban contexts that originally inspired them, embodying the internal contradictions and boundless potential of small and large, young and old, meticulously planned and chaotically sprawling cities worldwide.

In this context, that will resonate with current challenges to journalism and urban development, Paris Internationale will welcome 55 galleries as well as eight project spaces from 17 countries.

In her new work, Mariana Viegas continues to investigate the impact of landscape as a transformative and transforming entity in urban contexts.

Engaging the architecture and layered dynamics of the historic English and American Camps located in San Juan Island National Historical Park as its primary venue, the exhibition extends its inquiry and presentation into the urban context of Seattle, including a central group exhibition at Georgetown's studio e gallery, and a solo presentation hosted by Specialist, located in Pioneer Square.

Finally, the context of London as a site for political and cultural action emerges across the galleries, whether through documentation of Mona Hatoum's performance Roadworks in the streets of Brixton following the 1985 uprisings, or Black Audio Film Collective's video essay Twilight City which explores the effects on London of Thatcher's urban regeneration programme.

The highly stylized photographic work looked to preserve the strangeness of urban decay and suburban contexts as landscapes for cultural definition in America during the era.

Earlier video works are also part of the exhibition and act as context for Tallerås's on - going investigations into the urban context, walking in the city, and documenting the concealed communication at play across the cityscape.

She stages situations, dialogues, monologues or plays and uses the urban environment and its population as the context for her artwork.

Paiva uses this title as a point of departure, reflecting visually on the irony of the words in the context of the city's framework, whilst using the material itself to mount a discourse on the urban dialectic.

Others urge us to think about how to position ourselves within a larger urban context, such as Marcelo Cidade, Kendell Geers and Mikhael Subotzky.

The buildings dialogue with both the existing physicality of the urban fragment as well as its history and past use in order to reactivate the area and invigorate the reception of contemporary art, which is befitting within the culturally rich, multi-layered urban context.

«Who Knows» speaks both to the context of 21st century surveillance (from the Snowden revelations to the ubiquity of CCTV cameras in urban space) as well to the cultures of gossip, scandal seeking, phone hacking and to the playful and flirtatious eye that people keep on each other through social media.

In - class discussions that examine the history and contemporary practice and politics of display in multiple urban contexts with some emphasis on social, public, interventionist, and community - based practices is equally balanced with activities outside the classroom such as exhibition visits, artist talks, and performances.

It begins by describing the conceptual underpinnings and historic context for the project, provided through an introduction by Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon and the transcript of a conversation between Alyson Baker, former executive director of Socrates Sculpture Park, and Claire Weisz, who served as the project's urban strategist.

It seeks to help those teams to address a relatively narrow topic in the context of those policies: how their countries should deal with climate change in urban areas, and to empower local authorities as key actors in that effort.

«The author writes that «in the context of global climate change, urban warming can bias results obtained for background monitoring, as many of the observatories that have been in operation for a long time are located in cities.»

As architects we analyse the client's brief, study the site and its context, be it urban or rural.

It brought together 38 participants representing planning universities and planning professionals and aimed to: reach a common understanding on how better urban planning and design can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, especially in the Developing Countries context; agree on how best to equip urban planners and related professionals, especially in developing countries to deal with climate change and to conceptualize the core elements of a toolbox; and reach a common understanding on how urban planning and design schools can better address climate change as an integral part of their curricula.

SRAs can be used in both rural and urban contexts, either as a mechanism through which disadvantage can be tackled directly, or to complement and inform the delivery of an existing service.

Understanding the Impact of Trauma and Urban Poverty on Family Systems: Risks, Resilience, and Interventions (2010) K. Collins, K. Connors, A. Donohue, S. Gardner, E. Goldblatt, A. Hayward, L. Kiser, F. Strieder, and E. Thompson This white paper reviews the clinical and research literatures on the impact of trauma — within the context of urban poverty — on the family system, including the individual child or adult; adult intimate partnerships; parent - child, siblings, and intergenerational relationships; and the family as a wUrban Poverty on Family Systems: Risks, Resilience, and Interventions (2010) K. Collins, K. Connors, A. Donohue, S. Gardner, E. Goldblatt, A. Hayward, L. Kiser, F. Strieder, and E. Thompson This white paper reviews the clinical and research literatures on the impact of trauma — within the context of urban poverty — on the family system, including the individual child or adult; adult intimate partnerships; parent - child, siblings, and intergenerational relationships; and the family as a wurban poverty — on the family system, including the individual child or adult; adult intimate partnerships; parent - child, siblings, and intergenerational relationships; and the family as a whole.

As a professional, she has worked with young children and their families in urban contexts for over 10 years.

«The community is strikingly rooted in its landscape and urban context,» wrote author Ken Pirie in Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places.

In 2015, she launched 25N Coworking, a collection of shared workspaces uniquely designed for community engagement in suburban contexts, an experimental movement that has positioned Hauser as a thought leader in a niche that serves coworkers outside of traditional urban markets.