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ERIC Number: EJ550541
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
Life in a Fish Bowl: An American in Kazakstan.
Swezy, Shanta
Educational Leadership, v55 n1 p80-83 Sep 1997
In June 1993, after three months of intensive teacher training, the author and 45 other Peace Corps volunteers dispersed to towns in Kazakstan, a struggling former Soviet province. Students at Swezy's secondary school spoke broken English, were very respectful, wore uniforms, and were required to share answers and to clean the school regularly. Teachers' wages were abysmal. (MLH)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Cultural Differences, Developing Nations, Economic Change, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Secondary Education, Teacher Salaries, Teaching Conditions
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Kazakhstan; Peace Corps