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Feast, Vicki; Collyer-Braham, Sarah; Bretag, Tracey – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2011
This paper reports on the development and preliminary evaluation of "Global Experience", an innovative programme at the University of South Australia designed to broaden students' intercultural engagement through a range of international experiential activities. The paper provides the rationale for the establishment of the programme…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Global Education, Program Evaluation
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Brownlee, Kimberly – American Educational History Journal, 2010
This article will examine a little known but long-standing group, the Lisle Fellowship, that endeavored to open the world to college students and foster international understanding--or "world-mindedness," as the organization's founders called it--ultimately with the goal to contribute to the ideal of world peace. It will also, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Peace, Fellowships
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Perkins, James A. – Vestes, 1979
The evolution of the overseas study experience is described. Student goals, distribution figures among various countries, and incentives for overseas study are examined as well as problems that arise due to cultural, economic, and political problems stemming from an influx of foreign students. (SF)
Descriptors: Cultural Exchange, Educational Economics, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
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Friesen, David; And Others – Action in Teacher Education, 1995
Describes an international teacher education project, the Regina-Yaounde Inter-University Project, as one approach to the development of global consciousness in student teachers. The stories of two of the student participants (from Cameroon and Canada) in the student exchange component illustrate the impact of the experience on their professional…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Developing Nations