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Publication Date: 2000
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Cultural Connections: A Model for Eliminating Boundaries and Crossing Borders.
Cifuentes, Lauren; Murphy, Karen L.
Quarterly Review of Distance Education, v1 n1 p17-30 Spr 2000
Explains Cultural Connections, a model for implementing constructivist, intercultural distance learning partnerships. Highlights include a theoretical framework; social constructivist pedagogy; intercultural communication; telecommunications; Web pages; and examples of a middle school partnership in Texas, a fourth-grade connection between Texas and Mexico, and a university student connection between Texas and Taiwan. (Contains 29 references.) (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Distance Education, Educational Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Higher Education, Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Programs, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools, Models, Telecommunications, World Wide Web
Information Age Publishing Inc., 411 West Putnam Ave., Suite 205, P.O. Box 4967, Greenwich, CT 06831-4967.
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Identifiers - Location: Mexico; Taiwan; Texas
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