Purpose: This study aims to assess how transculturality can potentiate projects developed between UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) signatories' institutions by emphasizing on the advantages for teams with people from different nationalities. Besides, it addresses a well-discussed topic among the signatory schools of PRME…

Planning programs with learning outcomes that address diversity issues on campus can become fairly routine--a "plug and play" task--for a director of multicultural student affairs at a private, religious, predominantly white liberal arts university. However, connecting with African American and other minority students when they arrived on campus…

Members of the educational community, especially teachers and students, need to understand the roles of diversity, prejudice, and privilege in the educational community, but "an understanding of a multicultural perspective must begin with self-inquiry." In addition to self-inquiry, brain-based research validates that long-term…

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…

In this article, the authors discuss how Bennington College Early Childhood Center (ECC) developed a dual language program. In a dual language program, children are immersed in two languages throughout the day. Each classroom has two teachers, one speaking English, the other the second language exclusively. Children learn the second language in…

Communication problems encountered in the Samoan ETV project's implementation are discussed. (Author)

This article describes the process of creating training data for a game developed to promote cross-cultural competence among students studying in a culture different from their own. The process of creating game cards (known as culture assimilators) begins with the collection of reports of intercultural misunderstandings. This phase of data…

Transcultural training programs can provide several key solutions to some personnel development needs. Such training programs are designed to enable the participants to identify and understand their capabilities for dealing with the new environment of foreign countries. Effective transcultural training programs enhance awareness and adaptation,…

Inquiries were sent to guidance directors of more than 100 school districts in suburban New York concerning initiatives being taken to enhance multicultural relations in the school. Strategies were then incorporated into a proposed four-phase framework for implementing a comprehensive multicultural relations initiative in school. (JPS)

Describes the cultural arts program at Hawthorne Elementary School, DeKalb County, Georgia. The three year old program is still growing and expanding the art awareness of its participants. (GB)

This monograph consists of numerous short articles that discuss the system of international education in the Netherlands, its development and history over the past 25 years, and the experience of third-world students who have participated in the program. Section 1 presents general information on the Dutch international education system and how it…

Higher education institutions are responding to globalisation in various ways. This study describes and analyses challenges encountered in a recent case of global collaboration between four universities on different continents in developing a web-based master's program. The key issue was how to develop programs in a way that is fair for the…

IN THREE ARTICLES ON THE DESIGN OF CROSS-CULTURAL TRAINING WITH EXAMPLES FROM THE PEACE CORPS, HARRISON POINTED OUT THE INAPPLICABILITY OF THE CURRENT TRAINING FOR OVERSEAS SERVICE, DISSENTING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ITS ENDS AND MEANS. HE ARGUES THAT THE METHODS OF HIGHER EDUCATION ARE NOT APPLICABLE TO THE SITUATION WHICH REQUIRES THE ABILITY…

A position paper advocates the inclusion of a Black American element in bilingual-bicultural curricular materials for Mexican American children. Guidelines are given for determining the nature and scope of the proposed curriculum. Reactions to the proposal are made by four educators who are intensively involved in multicultural education: James A.…

The purpose of this handbook is to encourage exchange visits between citizens of the United States and the USSR. Person-to-person encounters remain the most effective means of bringing home the reality that people from diverse cultures do share similar needs, emotions, and aspirations. The information provided is intended for individuals and…