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Schaffhauser, Dian – Campus Technology, 2010
The lure of entering the China "market" has led numerous North American colleges and universities to open campuses or offices on Chinese soil--in anticipation of bolstering enrollment numbers, wooing a promising supply of Chinese students, and offering their American or other international students the opportunity to live and study…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Masters Programs, Foreign Countries, Chinese
Gunden, Ruth – 1983
The overseas study service program offered by Goshen College, Indiana, is described. The program strives to promote learning with a global perspective. Goshen sends students abroad in one of three ways: (1) a study service trimester, (2) a year abroad study, or (3) a European program which offers art courses in Italy, world civilization courses in…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Higher Education, Multicultural Education, Student Exchange Programs
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Rose, Susan D.; Bylander, Joyce – Innovative Higher Education, 2007
As an innovative model for diversity education, Dickinson College designed the "Crossing Borders" program to encourage culturally diverse students to live, work, and study together in multiple contexts both within the United States and abroad. Envisioning a series of crossings, the program brings together up to 20 students from Dickinson…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intergroup Relations, Cultural Pluralism, Multicultural Education
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Clarke, Kris – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2005
In the autumn of 2004, an interdisciplinary social science course entitled "Remembering, Forgetting and Forgiveness: Justice and Reconciliation from the National to the International" was offered to undergraduate students at the University of Tampere, Finland. The course had 49 students from 10 different countries on three continents. A…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Memory
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Scott, Thomas J. – Social Studies, 1998
Reports that previous research showed that many individuals are ethnocentric and lack global awareness. Provides an overview of theories related to ethnocentrism; presents data illustrating attitudes experienced by Thai exchange students in the United States; and introduces a pedagogical approach to global education that minimizes ethnocentrism…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Ethnic Bias, Ethnic Relations, Ethnocentrism
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Thompson, Wayne – Change, 1980
The overseas studies program and cross-cultural general studies for freshmen at Lewis and Clark College are described. The overseas program sends students abroad "regardless of class status, grade point average, or major." All the general studies sequences are team taught, without a primary text, using a comprehensive reading list. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Cross Cultural Studies, Equal Education, General Education
Erb, Dorothy J.; Keesbury, Forrest – 1992
The absence of cultural diversity in the student body at Marietta College (Ohio) and in the surrounding public school sites has been a concern of the education department at Marietta College. To help provide an effective multicultural experience for preservice teachers, Marietta College built a cooperative student exchange program with Stillman…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Experiential Learning
Yamamoto, Kiyoshi – 1990
As Japan takes a place as one of the world's technologically and economically advanced nations, the number of foreign students seeking to study in Japan has increased rapidly, as has the number of foreigners expressing interest in studying Japanese culture and the Japanese language. The Japanese government's program of international student…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture, Foreign Students
Hansel, Bettina – 1984
More than 8,000 secondary school students participated in the AFS International exchange programs in 1983, and this document examines some of the research that investigates the impact of travel abroad and intercultural experiences on personality development. Cigdem Kagitcibasi, in a study of the effects of a 10-month program on student…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Evaluation Problems, Global Approach, Intercultural Communication
van Amelsfoort, Peter – 1996
In the current global educational environment, students and faculty must be able to understand people of different cultures and learn to communicate and compete with them in the workplace. One way of enhancing the curriculum to include international and multicultural elements is by developing cooperative programs with institutions in other…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
Machart, Norm; And Others – 1996
The minority population in North Dakota is very small, less than five percent. Most of the students at Valley City State University (VCSU) are white and from middle class families; only about eight percent of the student body represent diverse cultures. Public schools in the state also have a low enrollment of minority students. Although these…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cultural Awareness, Education Courses, Elementary Secondary Education
Cole, Donna J.; Mulder, Robert L. – 1983
Most preservice teacher training institutions are aware of both the charge placed upon them to develop international understanding and the idea of the human family. The finite nature of the world, whose future rests on appropriate organization and ethical interaction, has made it imperative that teachers help children of the 21st century…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Educational Cooperation, Field Experience Programs, Global Approach
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Bronsil, Elizabeth – Montessori Life, 1997
Describes efforts to implement an international program between the Montessori program at Xavier University and Korea and Taiwan. Describes eight challenges confronting the project: (1) communication; (2) class participation; (3) sharing culture with the American students; (4) transportation; (5) connection with others; (6) visas and immigration…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Opportunities, Educational Methods
McKay, Joane W.; And Others – 1994
This paper demonstrates how teacher education institutions can expand understanding of others and tolerance for differences by developing cross-cultural exchange programs in international settings and on the local level. The paper outlines the steps involved in establishing international student teaching programs at three different universities…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Exchange, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education