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Harris, Jane – International Educational and Cultural Exchange, 1975
Describes the film program at the East-West Center which has proved to be not only entertainment, but an effective vehicle for increasing cultural understanding. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Exchange, Films, Higher Education
International Understanding at School, 1973
India's Unesco Associated Schools Program is presented as an instructive model for other countries. Its history from 1954 is developed in terms of organization; programs such as seminars, workshops, and camps; materials produced and dissiminated; progress in involving all levels of education; and problems, results and plans for intensification and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education, Intercultural Programs
Kraemer, Aldred J. – International Educational and Cultural Exchange, 1975
Describes the Human Resources Research Organization workshop that teaches Americans how to recognize cultural influences in their own thinking and thereby improve intercultural communication skills. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Exchange, Higher Education
Kalfus, Richard – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1977
Describes a federally funded project at Meramec College to infuse international perspectives into general education; designed to develop in an individual an awareness of the impact of culture on attitude formation and behavioral patterns. The program consisted of new courses, generally interdisciplinary, and a weekly cross-culturally oriented…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Community Colleges, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education
Koenig, Del M. – 1974
Efforts of Native organizations, coordinated through the National Indian Brotherhood, resulted early in 1973 in acceptance by the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs of the policy paper, "Indian Control of Indian Education", which legally gives Indian, Metis, and Inuit people control over their own schools. The paper explains the…
Descriptors: American Indians, College Programs, Community Control, Cross Cultural Studies
Lane, Mary B.; And Others – 1971
Nurseries in Cross-Cultural Education (NICE) initiated and implemented a 5-year program involving three nursery schools in preventive mental health in a San Francisco poverty area. It was a demonstration project carried out to study processes of involving inner-city families in coping with problems that often overwhelm city dwellers. NICE focused…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Family Involvement, Home Programs, Individual Differences
Abramowitz, Norman – 1970
This paper describes the work of the Center for International Programs and Comparative Studies in elementary and secondary education. The Center is charged with the responsibility for strengthening opportunities and resources for the study of "non-Western" culture in the schools, colleges, and universities of New York state, and with…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Centers
Hoopes, Davis S., Ed. – 1972
The second volume contains five articles on the theory of culture conflict, four perspectives on intercultural communications workshop programs, and seventeen syllabi courses on or related to intercultural communications in higher education. This volume attempts to bring about a more worldly perspective in universities and in the nation itself.…
Descriptors: College Programs, Communication Skills, Cross Cultural Studies, Cross Cultural Training
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Colorado Coll., Colorado Springs. – 1975
This report summarizes the activities of Colorado College in establishing a Southwestern Studies Program. Designed for the undergraduate level, this program is an interdisciplinary, interracial cultural study of the American southwest including its land, people, the relations of land and people, and racial and cultural issues. The report includes…
Descriptors: American Culture, American Indian Culture, American Studies, Area Studies
Espinosa, J. Manuel – 1976
Focusing upon the role of the United States government in furthering educational and cultural relations with other nations, the book presents a history of cooperative exchange between the United States and Latin America from 1936-48. The report, based upon primary source material in the form of communications between the Department of State and…
Descriptors: American History, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Exchange, Culture Contact
Fairbank, Wilma – 1976
The monograph, presenting a history of cultural exchanges between the United States and China from 1942-49, focuses upon the effect of Department of State cultural programs on international cooperation and understanding. Based upon primary source material in the form of reports and daily correspondence between Washington and the American Embassy…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Chinese Culture, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences