The study investigated the effect of international student teaching experience on the professional and personal development of preservice teachers. Within the framework of their internship program, 26 graduate students in a private university in Turkey had a two-month internship in a mid western state in the United States, the main component of…

Objectives: To help students ask questions across cultural groups that go beyond the superficial or generic so that they may move into deeper dialogue. To push students to use critical thinking and analytical skills to ask questions of substance. To help build relationships with strangers. Course: Intercultural communication. A list of references…

A discussion of the use of media with the American Indians to promote understanding of cultural differences within national boundaries as well as across them. (HB)

This booklet reports the major themes of the National Foreign Policy Conference for Leaders in Higher Education held in Washington, D.C. in May 1972. Part I examines the current U.S. policy in the Middle East and East Asia; American policy toward the "developing world" through its technical assistance efforts; and an analysis of three major…

This brochure explains the teacher exchange program carried out by the U.S. Office of Education in cooperation with the Department of State. It provided details of the opportunities available for qualified American teachers to teach abroad for the 1974-75 academic year, primarily in the elementary and secondary schools of other countries. It also…

Covers Unesco activities in education, communications, information, and cultural programs in light of nonmembership of the United States. (PD)

Canadian universities and colleges are becoming increasingly ethnoculturally diverse. Two major social forces have contributed to this change: immigration and increasing enrolment of international students. Minority and international students bring their values, language, culture and educational background to our campuses, to add to and enrich our…

This research was conducted to explore the impact of participation in an international education program on youth leadership development and how youth can more effectively engage in civic and community issues. The findings and recommendations offer international education programs, educators and youth workers strategies and best practices to…

Becoming multicultural has been defined as a process whereby an individual develops competencies of perceiving, evaluating, believing, and doing in multiple ways (Banks, 1988). Nieto (1996) argues that "becoming a multicultural teacher means first becoming a multicultural person. Without this transformation of themselves, any attempts at…

The rationale behind the project is based on the belief that the study of a work of literature can effectively open a window of opportunity for pupils to study other countries' cultures and identities as well as contribute to pupils' own identity construction and to the understanding of the identity of others. Information and communication…

A discussion of the availability of radio programming from other parts of the world. (Author)

Advanced technology and economics of scale are the principal determinants in EUROVISION's structure of international cooperation. (Author/STS)

Describes the Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (CIDOC) in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The center is dedicated to the search for new alternatives for positive social change, and was started by Ivan D. Illich. (GB)