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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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A Failure of Communication on the Cross-Cultural Campus
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Brown, Lorraine – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2009
This article reports findings from an ethnographic study into the adjustment experience of a group of postgraduate international students at a university in the South of England. Friendship emerged as a major theme in this study; of particular importance to students was the desire and failure to achieve contact with host nationals. An absence of…
Descriptors: International Education, Ethnography, Peer Relationship, Foreign Countries
The Incidence of Study-Related Stress in International Students in the Initial Stage of the International Sojourn
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Brown, Lorraine – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2008
This article explores the incidence of stress in international students in relation to the requirements of an international master's programme. The data presented here were taken from a doctoral ethnographic study of the adaptation of international postgraduate students to life in the United Kingdom, involving individual interviews with 13…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Incidence, Ethnography, Cultural Differences