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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Learning to Identify the Foreign in Developed Countries: The Example of Ireland
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Ireland, Colin – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2010
Among the responsibilities of international educators is to help students begin the process of identifying the foreign in their new environments in order to learn from it. The major obstacle for Americans studying abroad in developed economies, especially in English-speaking countries, is to become sensitive to the subtleties of foreignness. The…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Foreign Countries, Developed Nations, Study Abroad
Seventh-Century Ireland as a Study Abroad Destination.
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Ireland, Colin – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 1999
Examines an early form of study abroad and reveals that the issues that were at work within the study abroad experience of the seventh century, including the challenge of cultural integration, are similar to ones facing international educators today. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Educational History, Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange