After a brief discussion of the impressions made by outsiders on natives of developing countries, recommendations are made for a culturally sensitive development worker/educator, including contacting appropriate governmental agencies; involving host country partners in planning; listening; acting ethically; being sensitive to the prevailing…

Briefly described is the cooperative development of the "Comparative Encyclopedia of Special Education" involving Bulgaria, Poland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Major sections will be on the following subjects: categories of disabled persons, main characteristics, educational institutions,…

Third World adoption of the Western university and the accompanying Eurocentric system of information flow is criticized as sometimes being counterproductive and alien to developing nations. The potential for a self-reliant, interdependent higher education system among Third World countries is discussed. (MSE)

Suggests international cooperation for educational software development could be achieved by adoption of a common operating system; international definition and development of an educational shell; common development language acceptance; and development of an educational dissemination and cooperative framework. Rationale for common operating…

Discussions at the European Centre for Higher Education's 1985 conference on international educational exchange are summarized. They concerned the reasons for which individuals choose or reject study abroad, host country efforts to facilitate exchange, recognition of qualifications obtained abroad, and the role of international exchange in…

Reviews the objectives of the 21-member intergovernmental Council of Europe and its sub-group, the Council for Cultural Cooperation. Explains the prevailing practices and desired outcomes of European history as it is taught in the member countries. (JDH)

The importance of guiding images is examined, along with analyses of the images of humankind and worldviews previously offered by psychology and adopted by society-at-large. The article focuses on the contribution of transpersonal psychology, the discipline's fourth force, which integrates and extends prior guiding images. (CT)

In the early 1990s, having been freed from Soviet domination, small east central European countries, such as Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania, strove to establish democracy and a free market economy, and made a determined effort to join western democracies, by gaining admission to the European Union (EU) and the North…

Cross-national research collaboration has received increasing attention among researchers in organizational studies, including HRD, where external environments affect overall organizational and individual performance. In this paper, the nature of cross-national research collaboration, effectiveness of cross-national collaboration for knowledge…

This report presents an overview of current provisions for guidance and counseling services within higher education institutions in the United Kingdom. The report was prepared as part of the UK's contribution to a project on New Skills for Vocational Guidance in Higher Education in the European Union. It was written by counseling and guidance…

For more than 20 years, the U.S. Department of State's educational partnership projects have been promoting cooperation between U.S. institutions of higher learning and their counterparts around the world. Since 1982 institutional linkage programs have funded more than 700 such programs, involving nearly 250 U.S. institutions of higher education…

This survey of 100 universities in British Commonwealth nations examined the extent of nonacademic collaborative efforts. Responses from 41 institutions in seven countries (Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom) were analyzed. The study found that the nonacademic areas which currently are the…

Based on an informal survey of 26 small national library associations, this paper examines "twinning" (i.e., a formal substantive collaboration between two organizations) between library associations in general and with particular emphasis on the small associations' experience. It examines their characteristics and discusses the…

This report offers the agenda for a meeting in Budapest in November 1996 of the Thesaurus Management Group of the Council of Europe. The report includes a list of participants, a report on previous meetings, information on availability of the 1991 version of the thesaurus and subsequent addenda, information on new versions to be created, and a…

Cross-sectional analysis of 19 agricultural extension projects conducted by the German Agency for Technical Cooperation in Asia and Africa identified influential features: open attitude, participatory analysis, and focus on priorities of the target group. Among the problem areas were superficial analyses of situations and methodological…