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Download full textGrove, Cornelius Lee – 1982
Cross-cultural orientation programs are generally intended to help sojourners in countries with cultures that are different from their own to make practical preparations for living abroad; communicate with people in the host country; avoid social errors; refrain from judging the host culture against their own cultural norms; and cope with culture…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict
Peer reviewedSkovholt, Thomas M. – Counseling Psychologist, 1988
Asserts that cross-cultural context provides opportunity to practice highly skilled perspective taking, an occupational necessity for counselors, and in addition, cross-cultural context teaches one about American culture. Calls Fulbright program excellent choice for counseling psychologists because its value base - seeking world peace through…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Counselors, Cross Cultural Studies, Cross Cultural Training
Peer reviewedRobertson, Kay – Inquiry, 2002
Describes the author's experiences in England as a support staff educational exchange participant. Offers suggestions for classified college staff interested in exchange programs, and presents exchange programs information and funding resources. (NB)
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Exchange Programs, Higher Education, Intercultural Programs
Kallgren, Joyce K., Ed.; Simon, Denis Fred, Ed. – 1987
The essays in this monograph (except one) were originally presented and discussed at the Conference on Sino-American Cultural and Scientific Exchanges held in Honolulu, Hawaii in February 1985. Frank Ninkovich presents some of the thoughts that characterized the U.S. approach to cultural exchanges before 1940. In her essay on the pre-World War II…
Descriptors: Cultural Exchange, Exchange Programs, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
Kraemer, Alfred J. – 1981
This paper presents two proposals for improving programs that prepare groups for an intercultural experience. The paper should be helpful to instructors who train foreign service personnel, technical advisors, Peace Corps volunteers, and missionaries. First, instructors should make participants in a training program aware of the severe limitations…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Content, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness
Smith, D. G. – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1979
Presents a rationale and suggestions for ensuring contact between the second language learner and representatives of the target culture, in the home country as well as overseas. (AM)
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Cultural Exchange, Culture Contact, Exchange Programs
Peer reviewedBarrish, David J. – Inquiry, 2001
Describes the experiences of a Virginia hospitality management and culinary arts instructor's exchange visit to Northern Ireland. Offers advice for future travelers and exchange coordinators. (NB)
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges, Exchange Programs, Food Service
Peer reviewedTucker, G. Richard – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1993
The American phenomenon of pervasive monolingualism is considered, and potential implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement are described. Five second-language learning/teaching areas are projected: language for specific purposes; obligatory language study; exchange programs; technological advances; and information resources.…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Exchange Programs, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Winokur, Marshall – 1979
The Fulbright-Hays Teaching Exchange with Germany is a one-for-one exchanqe for approximately twenty pairs of American and German teachers. American elementary and secondary school teachers as well as college instructors and assistant professors replace their German counterparts for an academic year at either a "Hauptschule" (a…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Cultural Enrichment, Cultural Exchange, Exchange Programs
Grove, Cornelius Lee – 1983
Exchange programs of a month or less are unlikely to have many of the positive outcomes of more extended intercultural experiences. Worse, very short exchange programs (VSPs) may even have some undesirable outcomes. Positive outcomes not attainable through VSPs are: (1) development of long-lasting positive relationships and attitudes toward the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Change, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
