Highlights significance of adult literacy programs in Botswana and Zimbabwe. Concludes that the traditional approach to adult literacy is dominant in both countries, despite differences in national contexts and despite the fact that this traditional approach is largely ineffective. (Contains 51 references.) (NB)

Analyzes factors influencing the attitudes of secondary school teachers in Nairobi. Finds that, based on a field study and interviews, young male teachers suffered from relative deprivation in status and were therefore the least motivated and the most likely to leave the profession. Adds that direct working conditions didn't seem to have a…

Compares backgrounds and aspirations of teachers in China with teachers in America. Concludes that Chinese teachers generally come from less privileged backgrounds and are less likely to make teaching a lifelong career. Urges both Chinese and American policy makers to revise policies and practices in order to recruit and retain qualified teachers.…

Five reasons why U.S. colleges and universities attempting to internationalize the curriculum have major difficulties include: (1) competing purposes and directions that shift with the political and economic climate; (2) governmental constraints; (3) institutional structures that block change; (4) theoretical assumptions about curriculum that do…

Evaluation of a university-wide mission to internationalize included interviews with administrators, faculty members, and students in two departments. Findings indicated: (1) diverse understandings and implementations of internationalization; (2) perspectives linked to perceived relevance of internationalization to specific fields; and (3)…

Describes a project to link business students at Towson University (Maryland) and Sofia University (Bulgaria) through the Internet, in which student teams developed a feasibility study concerning starting a business in Bulgaria. Reports on successes and pitfalls (including politics and lack of appropriate incentives within the Bulgarian system),…

A survey of U.S. job recruiters (n=67) concerning their perceptions of the value of a student's international experience found recruiters did not value international exchange very highly and instead favored national work experience over international work experience. Company characteristics affected perceptions, but recruiters' personal…

Evaluation of the International Faculty Development Seminars (IFDS) was conducted through a review of files of the Council on International Educational Exchange. Since 1990, the IFDS has run 93 programs in 25 countries, enrolling 1,560 people from 613 colleges and universities. Most participants returned to their institutions to create new…

A study, drawing on faculty self-reports and interviews, examined the processes linking the short-term study-abroad experiences of college faculty and the global content of their classroom teaching. It found that experience abroad enhanced the social and self-awareness of participants, which in turn led to increased global content of classroom…

Argues that the political aspect of the Fulbright Exchange Program for college faculty has enhanced its academic effectiveness. The program's context, history, and method are described, and the Netherlands program is discussed in detail, noting particularly its transformation since 1947. Repoliticization of the Fulbright program in coordinated…

Government support to private education is discussed within the context of government financing of education at all grade levels and with respect to the dilemma of balancing money and influence in educational institutions. (JH)

The political socialization of various African Kenyan leaders is used to illustrate the author's belief in H. G. Barnett's theory that the individual exerts an influence on the process of cultural change which is in opposition to Gabriel Almond's view that the individual is only a passive participant in society. (JH)

This article describes the development of education in Nepal from its beginnings in indigenous education associated with Hindu and Buddhist religions to the present democratic period, which began in 1971 and entails a reform in curriculum and school organization. (JH)

Teaching elements in a world-minded program and global teaching techniques are discussed in light of today's new global society which requires the traits of world-mindedness. (ND)

A nine-state taxonomy was developed embracing the panorama of stated and implied reasons characteristically given for the improvement of international understanding. Clustered into three categories -- the National, Personal, and International-Interhuman Orientation Categories -- the taxonomy is outlined and the more fully described. (Author/ND)