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Solving Conceptual and Perceptual Analogies with Virtual Reality among Kindergarten Children of Immigrant Families
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Passig, David; Schwartz, Timor – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background: The ability to think analogically is central to the process of learning and understanding reality and there is a broad consensus among researchers that we can improve this ability. Immigrants who have emigrated from developing to developed countries tend to experience tremendous challenges in their early years as immigrants. Their…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Thinking Skills, Immigrants, Kindergarten
The Kibbutz in the 1970's: From Utopia Towards Modernization.
Rayman, Paula – 1980
The document examines the evolution of kibbutzim in Israel. The author suggests that a primary factor in the kibbutz development is the nature and structure of Israeli modernization efforts. The efforts encompass national ideology, industrialization, and legitimization of certain forms of social interaction. This mode of modernization stands in…
Descriptors: Collective Settlements, Developing Nations, Industrialization, Social Change
The Role of Communication in International Training and Education; Overcoming Barriers to Understanding With the Developing Countries.
Sinauer, Ernst M. – 1967
An assessment is made of international training and education in the United States and other countries; the role of oral, written, visual, and other modes of communication in meeting educational needs of students from the developing nations; and financial support for these educational endeavors. Types of participating agencies and individuals are…
Descriptors: Agencies, Audiovisual Communications, Communication (Thought Transfer), Costs
IFLA General Conference, 1992. Division of Education and Research: Editors of Library Journals (RT); Section on Research in Reading; Section on Women's Interest in Librarianship; Section on Education and Training; Continuing Professional Education (RT); Section on Library Theory and Research. Papers.
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International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, London (England). – 1992
The following 19 papers were delivered at the 1992 annual meeting of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions for the Division of Education and Research: (1) "Across the Frontiers: Impact of Foreign Journals in Library Science in India: A Citation Analysis" (M. A. Gopinath); (2) "Children and Reading in…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Children, Continuing Education, Developing Nations
Psychology in the Schools in International Perspective, Vol. 2.
Catterall, Calvin D., Ed. – 1977
The document is second in a series which examines actual and potential contributions of psychology toward solving problems of the world's schools. Written by school psychologists from 15 countries, this volume describes ways in which psychology is applied in the author's country, traces the background of school psychological services, reviews the…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Education, Developed Nations
Great Decisions 1990: Foreign Policy Issues Facing the Nation.
Hoepli, Nancy L., Ed. – 1990
The 1990 Great Decisions program, part of an annual series on foreign policy issues, is intended to create better better public understanding through information and analyses of important international issues. Current information is presented so that participants may be stimulated toward discussion, form opinions and contribute to the policy…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Asian History, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility