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Lindsay, Beverly – Comparative Education Review, 1989
Disputes claims that international scholarly exchanges are largely instruments of propaganda. Focuses on historical and contemporary concepts of diplomacy, and considers differing perspectives of international educational and cultural exchange programs as autonomous entities, part of public diplomacy, or components of propaganda. Uses…
Descriptors: Cultural Exchange, Diplomatic History, Exchange Programs, Higher Education
Schoorman, Dilys – 2000
The trend to internationalize has impacted upon most higher education institutions in the United States. This paper offers an organizational framework for understanding and implementing internationalization as an institution-wide process. The first section of the paper discusses and identifies the core characteristics required for all…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Curriculum, Cultural Exchange, Diversity (Faculty)
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1993
This booklet reviews considerations of internationalizing higher education through the experiences of faculty including obstacles and incentives to such changes. In the face of pressures to internationalize higher education that began after the World War II and continue to grow, administrators searching for effective vehicles to meet the challenge…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Development
Porcher, Louis – 1981
Education of the children of migrant workers in Europe is addressed in terms of interculturalism and teacher training. This report is the cornerstone of the experts' work; it not only sums up a number of case studies, but also discusses the subject of intercultural education and presents the guidelines that experts have followed and on which their…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Comparative Education

Pearce, Richard – International Schools Journal, 2001
Asserts that international schools are dominated by American and British schools. Uses the terms "Old World" (history is accumulated understanding, and people must be sensitive to a complex world) and "New World" (history is a challenge to overcome, and people must aim to build a better world) to differentiate between societies…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background, Elementary Secondary Education
Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). Directorate-General for Education and Culture. – 2002
This document profiles recent successful examples of students studying and working abroad as part of the European Commission's Leonardo da Vinci program, which is designed to give students across the European Union the opportunity to experience vocational training in a foreign country. The following examples are presented: (1) 3 Finnish students…
Descriptors: Administration, Career Education, Case Studies, Communications