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Griffiths, Tom G.; Charon Cardona, Euridice – European Education, 2015
International education is seen as an effective form of soft power. This article reviews one of history's largest and most ambitious attempts to achieve global influence through university education, and to reshape the world--the Soviet university aid program, 1956-91. Drawing on existing research and Soviet archival materials, we lay out and…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Systems, Educational History, International Education
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Brownlee, Kimberly – American Educational History Journal, 2010
This article will examine a little known but long-standing group, the Lisle Fellowship, that endeavored to open the world to college students and foster international understanding--or "world-mindedness," as the organization's founders called it--ultimately with the goal to contribute to the ideal of world peace. It will also, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Peace, Fellowships
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Silova, Iveta; Moyer, Amy; Webster, Colin; McAllister, Suzanne – Professional Development in Education, 2010
During the first decade of post-socialist transformation in Eastern Europe, the majority of education reform projects focused on in-service teacher education. Governments, international agencies and non-governmental organizations prioritized various in-service teacher education programs to help teachers deal with rapid changes in schools. This has…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries