"shape a perspective" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to discuss developing or forming one's opinion or viewpoint on a certain topic or issue. For example: "By listening to a variety of philosophical viewpoints, I was able to shape a perspective of my own."
They do shape a core perspective that one has.
And many of these people were shaped by a perspective formed in a very different time in Alaska and the nation — mostly the 1970s, when the environmental movement was young and bursting with muscular and sometimes hippie-tinged enthusiasm.
Creating simple substitutions and adding in healthy elements, rather than subtracting unhealthy (and often enjoyable!) ones, shapes a positive perspective.
Greenfield, a former faculty member of the year at historically black Shaw University in Raleigh, NC., says that his experiences have shaped a unique perspective on racial privilege and marginalization.
Rock is a comedian with a unique ability to shape historical moments from a perspective that both disquieting and unimpeachable.
"The big difference from last week is that we actually created good chances, we didn't at any time look lost from a shape perspective".
In companies, an outside-in perspective can help shape an honest view of your organization's strengths (and weaknesses).
Erik Sand brings a perspective shaped by eight years of service in the U.S. Navy to his doctoral studies.
The Ashkenazic Jewry, into whose communities the Sephardim had been thrust by political events, regarded their own heritage and the Christian world in which they lived from a perspective shaped exclusively by rabbinic categories.
This book, argued from a perspective shaped by postmodernism, is at once an accessible guide to and an engagement with various methods, theories, and critical practices transforming biblical scholarship today.
