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Brown, Geof – 1988
One in a series of discussion papers intended to promote exploration of issues related to volunteer motivation, recruitment, and development around the world, this report suggests that any country starting an intercultural exchange program may face problems similar to those encountered in Jamacia. The national director of an organization that…
Descriptors: Counseling, Cross Cultural Training, Exchange Programs, Foreign Countries
Naka, Chieko Nabetani; Hansel, Bettina – 1989
The concept of volunteerism is not well known in Japan and the word itself, "borantia" is borrowed from English. However, voluntary programs do exist in Japan. This report attempts to describe the way in which volunteerism operates (or does not operate) in Japan by discussing the organization of Japanese society, its implications for…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Exchange Programs, Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture
Cushner, Kenneth – 1987
Designed to assess the impact of an approach to aid assimilation of exchange students from a number of different countries into a wide variety of cultures, this study looked at the adjustment of adolescent exchange students who lived in New Zealand for a year. A culture-general assimilator in the form of a programmed textbook was used to introduce…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adolescents, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Pluralism