When sport psychology researchers from the mainstream work with people from marginalized cultures, they can be challenged by cultural differences as well as mistrust. For this article, researchers born in mainstream North America partnered with Canadian Aboriginal community members. The coauthors have worked together for 5 years. What follows is…

Engineering organizations are increasingly under pressure to perform more efficiently with fewer people. To manage this, organizations need to understand what skills, knowledge and behaviours they need from engineers who have to practise in a global information society. Engineering educators, in collaboration with employers, therefore now need to…

Structure and agency of cultural diversity in (international) higher education have to be addressed with a critical perspective on international mobility and practices of international academic teaching. In order to overcome naive assumptions about intercultural developments on the individual and the organizational level, sociological analysis…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore what developing moral literacy for leaders in intercultural schools will mean. Design/methodology/approach: Relevant literature on moral literacy, leadership, intercultural schools and social learning is brought together and integrated to develop an understanding of the intricacies of leading for…

A discussion of the availability of radio programming from other parts of the world. (Author)

Advanced technology and economics of scale are the principal determinants in EUROVISION's structure of international cooperation. (Author/STS)

Describes the Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (CIDOC) in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The center is dedicated to the search for new alternatives for positive social change, and was started by Ivan D. Illich. (GB)

Describes curriculum, methods and materials used in this unique international attempt to promote identification of children with mankind as a whole, while respecting diversity of cultures. (NH)

A description of Freedom House / Books USA, a book distribution program for individuals, libraries and schools in emerging nations. (JB)

A study of U.S. demographics reveals a trend toward rapidly increasing cultural diversity. This trend can potentially cause serious misunderstandings among students, teachers, parents, and administrators in culturally diverse schools. Principals and staff members should be able to recognize and resolve culturally based school and community…

Honored for contributions to school social work, Isadora Hare's career is reviewed. She was involved in policy formulation and implementation on an international scale, legislative and regulatory analysis and advocacy for NASW, international relations coalitions, and program development for several conferences. Published internationally, she…

Until recently, the few attempts to develop intercultural competence in German higher education institutions were limited to the initiative of individuals and were mostly targeted at selected groups, e.g. students participating in international master's programmes. Only recently have German universities started to acknowledge the fact that…

During the past six months the author was fortunate to travel to Hungary three times. Although all three trips had different purposes, they had one thing in common: professional conversations between colleagues from Hungary and the United States. In this article, the author would like to provide a short overview of these visits, which resulted in…

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