For many Korean Americans, the American dream of building a better future in the United States for their families is realized through a focus on entrepreneurship. Their formula for entrepreneurial success is simple and effective: (1) identifying a business opportunity; and (2) working hard to turn the opportunity into a business success. Korean…

Micronesia is an ethno-geographical grouping of over 2000 islands spread out over 7,000,000 square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean and includes the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam,…

This newsletter highlights the significant contributions made by the late Lee F. Anderson to the field of global education. Excerpts were selected from a life's work of deep thought and creative literary output regarding the constantly changing world in which people live. While Anderson's intellectual prowess ranged across several domains…

This paper presents a case study as an illustration of the need to probe issues and assumptions that arise when outsider staff developers work with teachers from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. After tracing the historical and sociopolitical context of urban school reform, the paper examines the author/educator's experience of…

This resource packet was created to allow teachers to easily select from some of the short works of Naguib Mahfouz, probably Egypt's most famous and prolific writer, that will familiarize students with the author and his world. The packet first gives an overview of the life and work of Mahfouz, citing seven sources for further information. The…

Elementary social studies was "custom made" to fit progressive era issues and theories, and to "develop" children into good citizens. Social studies has not developed fast enough to keep pace with culture changes since World War II. Assumptions changed in the United States during World War II and elementary social studies…

This paper gives an overview of censorship in Germany. The paper recognizes that between the human right and constitutional law of freedom of speech, art, and press on the one side and the social life of man which must be ensured on the other side, the right of free expression can clash with human dignity. It discusses which books, films, records,…

Continuing series on concepts in teaching Spanish language, literature, and culture. (DS)

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, October 27, 1972, St. Louis, Missouri. (DS)

Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of French, December 29, 1972, New York, New York. (DS)

Revised version of a chapter to appear in Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie,'' Presses Universitaires de France. (DS)