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Evaluating Policy to Research Fellowship Programmes
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Nicola Buckley; Kathryn Oliver – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2025
Background: This paper provides insights into 'Policy to Research' (P2R) Fellowships and related programmes within the 'relationship' model of academic-policy engagement, which provide structured opportunities for policy officials to interact with academic researchers. Aims and objectives: Information is provided on P2R Fellowship and similar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Program Descriptions
Internationalisation of Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of the Intercultural Dimension of a Visiting Scholar Programme
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Zheng, Huan; Pirbhai-Illich, Fatima; Martin, Fran; Wu, Liqin – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
This article reports the findings of a study on the intercultural dimension of internationalisation at two universities, located in China and Canada, as evidenced through their visiting scholar (VS) programme. Andreotti and her research team identified three articulations of internationalisation in higher education that are located in a…
Descriptors: International Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Universities, Faculty Mobility
The "Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters": Mixed Results amongst Canadian Adolescents
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Ruest, Carl – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
Reflecting upon their intercultural experiences, with a tool like the "Autobiography of intercultural encounters," may help adolescents become better interculturalists. This research investigates how the use of the Autobiography may allow adolescents develop intercultural competence (IC). Using Byram's framework on which this tool is…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Autobiographies, Student Attitudes, Guidelines
Tourism, Tolerance, or Hospitality? An Assessment of a Native/Non-Native, Urban/Rural Youth Exchange Program between Fort Good Hope, NWT, and East Vancouver, BC
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Hern, Matt – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2009
This article considers and assesses a youth exchange project between two community-based youth centers: The Purple Thistle Centre in East Vancouver, British Columbia, and the K'asho Got'ine Youth Centre in Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. Both centers serve primarily low-income youth, but after that the similarities are very few. The…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Youth Programs, Exchange Programs, Foreign Countries
An Exchange Program for Improving Administrative Competence.
Murphy, Peter J. – Education Canada, 1982
An outline of the whys and whats of a proposed exchange program for educational administrators in the commonwealth is presented. (AH)
Descriptors: Administrators, Burnout, Exchange Programs, Foreign Countries
Joining the Global Community.
Cawley, John; Knoester, Jocelyn – Education Canada, 2002
Canada World Youth enables young Canadians to live in another part of Canada with youths from a developing country for several months while volunteering in community projects. Then they move as a group to the partner country for several months where the program structure is the same. Participants acquire the skills and values necessary to…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Exchange Programs, Experiential Learning
The Situation of Minority Languages in Quebec.
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Benes, Marie-France – Mosaic: A Journal for Language Teachers, 1993
Discusses language policy in Quebec, reviewing the rise of French as the dominant language in the province, the maintenance and promotion of heritage languages and cultures in public and private schools, and three initiatives to promote second-language study (parent-child classes for immigrants, French language courses for adults, and school…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Exchange Programs