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Direct linkIndelicato, Maria Elena; Pražic, Ivana – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2019
In this article, we develop a genealogy of international education studies' tenets of culture shock and skills deficit. To trace their emergence, we map the discursive shifts which underpinned cultural anthropology's involvement in the administration of US colonial, domestic, and international affairs respectively in the early 1900s and 1950s.…
Descriptors: International Education, Cultural Differences, Race, Whites
Download full textKurtz, Stanley – National Association of Scholars, 2020
"The Lost History of Western Civilization" is a wide-ranging consideration of the academy's role in producing America's contemporary political and cultural divisions. The report traces the ways in which the 1988 controversy over the teaching of Western Civilization at Stanford set the pattern for today's "Cold Civil War." The…
Descriptors: Western Civilization, United States History, Political Attitudes, Cultural Differences
Sheridan, Vera – History of Education, 2016
Following the end of the 1956 Revolution, a significant number of university students fled Hungary and the human capital flooding into Austria drew the attention of universities worldwide. The cold war and its influence on international student organisations and on the domestic conceptualisation of refugees in the USA contextualise this case study…
Descriptors: Refugees, Land Settlement, College Students, Higher Education
Khan, Nigar J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The dissertation critically analyzes the response of a major research public university to the attacks of 9/11 in order to gain a deeper understanding of public universities' stance on the relevance of Middle East studies, particularly in the context of the serious and far-reaching impact of 9/11. The absence of an articulated position of the…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Criticism, Middle Eastern Studies, Qualitative Research
Graham, Terrece F. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in a period of change in higher-education systems across the former Eastern bloc. Reform-minded leaders in the region sought to introduce western models and policies promoted by foreign development aid agendas. Private higher-education institutions emerged. This qualitative multiple case study examines…
Descriptors: Universities, International Education, International Cooperation, Foreign Countries
Beckerle, John R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of the study was to explore the current perceptions of adults who were enrolled in the gifted program of the St. Louis Public Schools in the fall of 1959 or spring of 1960. At this time in history the Cold War was a reality and the U.S. enacted the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) to find talented young people and give them the…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Academically Gifted, Public Schools
