Presented is data amassed from 200 participants in a successful overseas student teaching program run by Indiana University. The data addresses how stateside student teaching helps or hinders subsequent teaching practicum experiences in overseas nations. Suggested are steps which can eliminate or minimize difficulties encountered by student…

Discusses a revised secondary social studies methods course for college students based on a teaching exchange between public school teachers and professional educators. Describes areas covered such as teaching strategies, boundaries of the disciplines, international perspective, cooperative learning, research-based strategies, and critical…

Discusses the development and implementation of the National Teachers' Training Convention in the Philippines. The convention trained two thousand teachers in six days. Describes the spartan facilities that define the Philippines' educational system and various efforts to improve it, including the "Books for Barrios" project that…

Describes VaCIE-CEMP, a faculty/staff exchange program between the Virginia Community College System and schools in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and the Netherlands. States that participants pair up with their overseas equivalent and exchange houses, keeping costs to a minimum. Reports that during the two-week visits,…

In the current global educational environment, students and faculty must be able to understand people of different cultures and learn to communicate and compete with them in the workplace. One way of enhancing the curriculum to include international and multicultural elements is by developing cooperative programs with institutions in other…

While the need to incorporate language competence into academic programs in business schools is widely acknowledged, so too is the difficulty of forging the faculty alliances needed to achieve this integration. For both language and business faculty, traditional demands of the disciplines, personal training and backgrounds, and the institutions'…

Education of the children of migrant workers in Europe is addressed in terms of interculturalism and teacher training. This report is the cornerstone of the experts' work; it not only sums up a number of case studies, but also discusses the subject of intercultural education and presents the guidelines that experts have followed and on which their…

Efforts to strengthen faculty involvement in international programs that were undertaken by Cook College, the agricultural and environmental unit of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, are discussed. Reasons for international program activities are identified, including program enrichment, the self-interest of the university, and…

The Shongololo project of the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education and Culture in South Africa aims to endorse the notion that a school can quite effectively cross the digital divide with a single online computer that is accessible to both learners and educators and which is managed by an enthusiastic and committed information…

Many schools of education do not specifically direct attention to programs that encourage, train and prepare teachers for life in rural schools and communities. Also the professors who concentrate most of their time in the city complex have had little exposure to rural needs and experiences. However, with some leadership on the part of rural…

Factors and conditions that facilitate or retard international exchange in education and research at Japanese universities were studied, and Japanese higher education was assessed from the perspective of international openness. The following surveys were conducted: an Institutional Survey on International Exchange Programs in Japanese…

The decision to pursue interdisciplinarity at Ramapo College was based on theory and on the conviction that the traditional departmental approaches were inadequate to provide for the liberal or general educational interests of a broad-based student body. Some of the problems encountered are that: (1) there is not campus-wide agreement about the…

The replacement of a five-year comprehensive high school by schools at the intermediate and senior high levels created problems for students and staff members. A formal program of practices and procedures was developed to assist the students as they move through the organizational breaks that occur between the elementary and intermediate school…

This paper is a reflective-reflexive examination of provisions of trustworthiness in critical narrative research. The author presents her understanding of provisions of trustworthiness as a science and as an art, and blurs these boundaries as she acknowledges their tension in practice. She weaves between theory and her experience in two…

Since its founding in 1919, the Institute of International Education (IIE) has been committed to strengthening mutual understanding and to encouraging the free flow of knowledge and ideas across national boundaries. Through the international programs IIE develops and administers, it has pioneered in the education of men and women of outstanding…