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• Changing Views about International Activities in American Teacher Education Programs
  This paper provides a historical overview of international education trends in U.S. colleges, including teacher education programs, comparing current research with data from the 1970s.
• Comparative and International Education: A Bibliography (1999)
  Bibliography of comparative and international education lists 937 journal articles published 1998-99. Categories are adult education; comparative studies; curriculum and instruction; educational planning, policy, and reform; ethnicity, race, and class; gender; higher education; indigenous and minority education; multicultural education; methodology and theory; primary education; secondary education; special education; study abroad; teacher education; technology; and various geographic regions.
• Comparative and International Education: A Bibliography (2000)
  Comparative Education Review's bibliography for 2000 contains 1,232 articles from 181 journals. Categories include adult, rural, and vocational education; world regions; comparative education; curriculum and instruction; educational planning and development; ethnicity, race, and class; gender; higher education; indigenous education; bilingual and multicultural education; methodology and theory; minority education; policy analysis; primary education; secondary education; special education; teacher education; and technology.
• Didn't Someone Invite Patty? How Patty Smith Hill's Vision of International Education Has Crossed the Border in a Most Unusual Place!
  This paper distills the history of early childhood education in Russia as a backdrop to a discussion of Patty Smith Hills visit to the nursery schools and kindergartens of the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The paper begins with a discussion of the introduction of early childhood education in the late 1800s, the lack of educational advances during the hardships of the period surrounding the revolution, and Russian educator Vera Fediaevskys work and the development of an educational plan emphasizing communistic ideals.
• Global Winners: 74 Learning Activities for Inside and Outside the Classroom
  This book provides 74 learning activities to help K-12 students, college students, and even seniors develop the global perspective needed for the 21st century. Each learning exercise is preceded by an introduction that sets the theme of the activity and states its purpose or objective.
• Globalization and Co-Integration of Universal Education
  This paper proposes an educational system in which integrated institutions can become co-integrated and continentally co-integrated institutions can become universally integrated. An integrated institution is one that offers both academic programs and extracurricular activities that meet the needs of students from other institutions and countries.
• Intercultural and Multicultural Education as Cultural Encounter and Reflection: Innovative Programs at the International Center for the Study of Education Policy and Human Values
  Describes the International Center for the Study of Educational Policy and Human Values at the University of Maryland. Asserts that it has achieved its two original goals of assisting experienced leaders to integrate an intercultural dimension into programs and develop model intercultural programs and training materials.
• International & Intercultural Education. Corp Author(s): Maricopa County Community Coll. District, Phoenix, AZ
  This report relates Maricopa County Community College District's (MCCCD) mission statement for international and intercultural education, and presents the strategic plan for developing this type of education at each of the district's community colleges. The mission statement recognizes that because the globe is a home that all cultures, nations, and people must share, the district should prepare its students for successful participation in a global community.
• International Programs at Community Colleges. AACC Research Brief
  The American Association of Community Colleges conducted a year 2000 survey that was designed to determine the involvement of U.S. community colleges in international programs and services.
• International Programs at Community Colleges. AACC Research Brief
  The American Association of Community Colleges conducted a year 2000 survey that was designed to determine the involvement of U.S. community colleges in international programs and services.
• Internationalizing the Community College
  Global competency is defined as a continuum of behavior that begins with personal awareness of cultural differences and culminates in a person successfully functioning in another culture or country. The importance of increasing the numbers of community college students who will live, study, or work abroad is stressed.
• Internationally-Minded Schools
  States that international education is not necessarily exclusive to international institutions. Describes a number of national and government-funded schools that offer "internationally minded" programs.
• Learning Styles, Culture and Inclusive Instruction in the Multicultural Classroom: A Business and Management Perspective
  Examines the learning style profile exhibited by students in a multicultural class of international business management and how cultural conditioning is reflected in the learning style preferences of students. Explains the use of the Index of Learning Styles and discusses implications for the design of business management curriculum.
• Learning through Community Service in International School Settings
  States that many international schools have taken on the role of being community centers that support families adjusting to life in a foreign country. Describes several community-service programs that are not strictly school-based and that help students and families be aware of the broader community's culture as well as the campus'.
• Multicultural and Globalized Education: International Students' Perspective
  This study examined the nature and needs of international students in American higher education within the context of multicultural and globalized educational programs and support services. Most international students are considered developmental upon admission into postsecondary institutions.
• School Exchanges: A Tool for Mutual Understanding in a Multicultural Society. Report of the Conference
  The sixth meeting of the Council of Europe Network on school links and exchanges, held in Solothurn, Switzerland, from October 5-7, 1995, was attended by delegates from some 30 member states, observers from international and nongovernmental organizations, teacher trainers for school exchanges, and representatives of Swiss institutions and schools. Established 5 years ago on the initiative of the Council of Europe, the network was designed to develop exchanges among schools in all European countries.
• The Business Education Index 1996. Index of Business Education Articles and Research Studies Compiled from a Selected List of Periodicals Published during the Year 1996. Volume 57
  This index, which was compiled from a selected list of 45 periodicals published in 1996, lists more than 2,000 business education articles and research studies. Articles are listed under the following subject categories and subcategories: basic business, communications, curriculum, document, general educational issues,information systems, personnel issues,teaching issues,teaching strategies .
• The European School Model Part II
  Argues that in the European School (ES) program, younger students should learn in their own language, as opposed to in English, which is widely practiced at international schools. Suggests specific language learning according to ES' four stages: (1) nursery school; (2) primary school; (3) middle school; and (4) upper school.
• The International Baccalaureate: International Education and Cultural Preservation
  Examines how well the International Baccalaureate (IB) achieves its aims of inculcating international attitudes while maintaining students' cultural identities. Finds that international attitudes may be more affected by the social environment of IB programs than by the curriculum; success at cultural maintenance varies by culture, with Western cultures being better supported.
• The Politics of Multiculturalism and Bilingual Education: Students and Teachers Caught in the Crossfire
  This article contains essays on political issues in multicultural and bilingual education.
• Value Commitment, Social Change, and Personal Narrative
  Inspired by Paulo Freire, Professor Peter Mayo subscribes to a value-committed sociology--an inclusive social vision that embraces social relations and human-earth relations. Critical pedagogy figures prominently in the sociology of education group within the University of Alberta's educational foundations curriculum.