Sentences with phrase «which cultural perspectives»

An avid traveller who has photographed various locations around the world, including France, Tibet, and Indonesia, Almond's work consistently references the mutability of the environment and the ways in which cultural perspectives alter the perception of space and time.

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It offers a specialty in global energy management and sustainability, which encourages students to view the industry from political, environmental and cultural perspectives, in addition to teaching the fundamentals.

Above all we must have compassion for the cultural and historical perspectives in which our fellow humans are embedded.

There is the freedom to go deep in the culture, and tell the story from the cultural participant perspective, which allows for a high level of freedom and awareness around unique cultural and economic issues.

For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.

The theoretical tradition initiated by Max Weber nearly a century ago has remained a popular perspective from which to examine religion, ideology, and, in general, the processes of change in these cultural systems.

They have also raised awareness of the extent to which most theological thought in this century has been filtered through a very specific cultural perspective, namely that of Western male academic theologians.

Justin's perspective here lines up beautifully with the themes of many of the New Testament epistles in which the justification for specific instructions (like head coverings and women remaining silent in church, for example) appear to be rooted in practical considerations regarding love for neighbor, considerations that clearly have a cultural context that may not apply today.

The antisemitism which fueled the Holocaust, for instance, may have held (and still does) particular appeal to more impressionable, less - intelligent throughout Europe in the 1930s, but clearly, it was a feature of a particular social, cultural, and historical perspective.

Mujerista theology brings together elements of feminist theology, Latin American liberation theology and cultural theology, three perspectives which critique and challenge each other, giving birth to new elements, a new reality, a new whole.

Perhaps a retrospective look from a greater historical perspective will show that the Niebuhr report reflects the end of a phenomenon of which William Rainey Harper's study marked the beginning: the influence on Protestant theological schooling of major themes in the «progressivist era» in American cultural history.

For me this engagement and reflection take place within the context of a Christian perspective which, guided by the insights of H. Richard Niebuhr, seeks a responsible and transforming relationship between the Christian gospel and cultural life.

The fear of «a Catholic parochialism, in which Catholic culture... simply projects its theoretically naïve biographical perspective onto the social and cultural map of the present» (page 76) seems to weigh more with the authors of On the Way to Life than a confidence in what we have to offer.

She is the author of Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa 1993, and the co-editor of Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives (1995), which includes her chapters «Beauty and the Breast: The Cultural Context of Breastfeeding in the United States,» and «A Time to Wean: The Hominid Blueprint for a Natural Age of Weaning in Modern Human Populations.»

The failings of New Labour: From a Blue Labour perspective, Jonathan Rutherford, Professor of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University and editor of Soundings, writes very well on the failings of New Labour (see page 88 of this Soundings e-book, which is based on a series of seminars on Blue Labour, from 2010 - 11): «The early years of New Labour — the pluralism, the ethical socialism, the stakeholding economy, the idea of a covenant of trust and reciprocity with the people, the emotional language that reignited popular hope — created a powerful and successful story.

LaVeist was recognized for his ability to examine health disparities from a broad perspective; the innovative design of his study, «Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities», which controls for confounding socioeconomic and environmental factors; and his work creating the Cultural Competency Organizational Assessment — 360, a tool for assessing the cultural competency of health care organiCultural Competency Organizational Assessment — 360, a tool for assessing the cultural competency of health care organicultural competency of health care organizations.

Modelled on the successful cultural markets of Portobello in London, Chelsea in New York and Paddington Market in Sydney, where global brands like Lover, sass & bide and Zimmermann started their careers — Hong Kong is soon to get THEIR OWN Sunday Fashion Market, which is set up to change the fashion perspective of consumers, appreciators and fashionistas in Hong Kong.

There are so many ways in which this movie qualifies as like nothing we've ever seen before in the genre (and outside it, too), all of which are functions of the widening of perspective it represents, but this is a really important one: it ponders questions of responsibility on a collective cultural level, not just an individual one.

On the other hand, the theory of cultural relativism is based on the idea that there are no objective criteria by which people with different social and religious norms and perspectives can be distinguished.

To frame and address bullying, researchers prefer the ecological - systems perspective, which suggests adjusting multiple conditions: home and school, intrapersonal and interpersonal development, peer groups, the community, the media, and cultural norms.

Schools need to prepare students for a world in which people need to work with people of diverse cultural origins, and appreciate different ideas, perspectives and values; a world in which people need to develop trust to collaborate across such differences; and a world in which people's lives will be affected by issues that transcend national boundaries.

Students who learn other languages also gain insights into other cultural perspectives, and intercultural competency, which is defined as the ability to communicate in culturally appropriate ways, while showing appreciation and understanding of others, and maintaining a spirit of openness and respect for others.

The rich examples of the impact of culture on online learning stated throughout «Culture and Online Learning: Global perspectives and research» help understand the effect of cultural differences on creating a successful and effective learning environment, which embraces online students and provides them with the tools to assist their success.»

The stories in this report, which include perspective pieces by current teachers, look at new research surrounding teacher stress and burnout, innovative ways to incorporate social - emotional learning into everyday lessons and with different groups of students, and strategies for self - care, mindfulness, and cultural responsiveness, starting in teacher preparation programs.

EDU 6223 «Education in a Cultural and Linguistic Diverse Society,» which immerses students in an interdisciplinary overview and deeper understanding of matters related to culture and equity in education from philosophical, historical, political and sociological perspectives;

«One of the main reasons why I opened it is because I have a son, which is perhaps the reason behind many cultural projects, they are very personal,» Sonia told Publishing Perspectives at the store in the city of Cuernavaca.

Hartnett and his group are big on themes which put economic, investment, demographic and even cultural and social trends around the world in perspective.

Your preference seems to be for no cultural context (except in those cases where you see fit), which is fine as far as it goes, but that doesn't mean someone with a different perspective is saying nothing.

The exhibition highlights the power and complexity of contemporary Indigenous photography, and the way in which Indigenous artists draw upon a rich mixture of history, personal experience, blak humour, as well as postmodern and postcolonial theories, in order to generate new perspectives and understandings of the social, political and cultural conditions faced by Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

The idea for the project originated from reflecting on Erwin Panofsky's book Perspective as Symbolic Form (1927), which shows how every cultural age develops its own way of representing space.

The Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen (Belgium, born 1970) made his name with films in which he analyses cultural and historical places and events from a personal perspective, in a way that is at the same time very precise and ambiguous.

English brings new perspective to the Whitney show, which Andrews and the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) famously protested.

Charlottenborg, too, invites visitors to witness a rewriting of art history with Kerry James Marshall's paintings, which address questions of cultural representation from an African - American perspective and seek to mitigate «the lack in the image bank», to use the artist's own turn of phrase.

Their related cultural and historical experiences, which for some included being marginalized within American society, often shaped their artistic perspectives.

In his ongoing series of prints, Phillip Chen activates the dismantling of categories and the multiplicity of vision, utilizing a range of visual languages by which to explicate and redress cultural - historical events while infusing personal and global perspectives.

This new international group exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York gathers together artistic reactions to the ways in which media representations of violent conflict and identity are increasingly rendered through an individualized, and even banal perspective.

For her first solo exhibition at Simon Lee Gallery, Paulina Olowska will show a group of new paintings which continue her exploration of feminist and socially engaged themes, of shifts in cultural perspective between East and West and of the female figure as archetype.

He also offered a great perspective on our cultural and commercial move away from wood and toward more «modern» materials, which BEAMZ will offer an alternative to:

To bounce off a comment I wrote downstairs... it seems to me that those who are most «adept» at avoiding polarization on scientific issues are those who are most thorough in employing basic tools of accurate «perspective taking,» which in turn largely reflects an explicit intent to employ tools that mitigate the influences of motivated reasoning and cultural cognition and identity - protective cognition.

Andy == > It seems that churches and religion are not subjects with which you have a lot of first hand / hands on experience — more like something you have always «studied about» from some perspective outside of the field itself — viewed always through the lens of cultural psychology or cultural evolution.

But to redefine a movement that has brought so many people together from vastly different political, spiritual, cultural and economic perspectives together, and which has offered a relentlessly practical approach to community responses to coming challenges, would quite honestly have me running for the hills.

This article was originally published in Sacred Fire magazine, an initiative of the Sacred Fire Foundation which seeks to help all people re-discover and celebrate the sacred, interconnected nature of life, a perspective held by indigenous peoples and spiritual traditions everywhere which is the source of all personal, cultural and environmental well - being.

«So if we have clients that are looking to do business in other jurisdictions, for instance, the extent to which we have a workforce that represents that community can be helpful from a business perspective for the client; it may make negotiations easier, it may make dealing with political or cultural sensitivities a little easier as well.»

From a cultural perspective, I've shaped my firm based on the best practice of what I experienced in the various countries in which I have lived and worked.

Finally the ways in which social cultural political biases impact professional and personal perspectives will be explored.

Pediatricians can strive to identify and build on protective factors within families, such as cohesion, humor, support networks, skills, and spiritual and cultural beliefs.96, 97 By approaching families from a strengths - based perspective, pediatricians can help build trust and identify the assets on which a family can draw to effectively address problems and care for their children.

The stories in this report, which include perspective pieces by current teachers, look at new research surrounding teacher stress and burnout, innovative ways to incorporate social - emotional learning into everyday lessons and with different groups of students, and strategies for self - care, mindfulness, and cultural responsiveness, starting in teacher preparation programs.

Fluent in both English and Spanish, Mr. Lopez infuses a multicultural perspective within the therapeutic relationship to allow him to explore cultural issues, which may be impactful.

She is the author of Family Transitions: Continuity and Change over the Life Cycle; Cultural Perspectives in Family Therapy; the pioneer volume Latino Families in Therapy; and the second edition of Latino Families in Therapy, which has just been released.

«This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase these striking objects which explore key cultural practices in the Torres Strait from both historical and contemporary perspectives,» Nation Museum director, Dr Mathew Trinca said.