Written to meet the Peace Corps' need for a coherent policy on the use and dissemination of its core curriculum materials and its need for a comprehensive philosophy, the guide contains the philosophy, goals, and policy for Peace Corps training. The following nine sections are included: (1) executive summary; (2) introduction, which describes the…

Intended for regional and in-country Peace Corps staff, this guide contains standards that are the minimum expectations for Peace Corps training worldwide. The introduction sets forth nine assumptions that underlie the use and monitoring of the standards and also contains tabular material that describes how the standards will be used and monitored…

As follow-up to a five-year Council for Cultural Cooperation project on migrants, a seminar and roundtable discussion on the theory and practice of intercultural education in Europe is presented. Seminar participants include educators and administrators from Belgium, West Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden as well as a representative from the…

This book is designed to familiarize trainers with the implications of culture on the learning and development process and provide them with practical techniques for taking different cultural values into account when planning and delivering training. The book consists of 18 chapters organized into 4 parts as follows: culture and training (risks of…