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Download full textArnold, Neetu – National Association of Scholars, 2022
America's Middle East Studies Centers (MESCs) were originally founded to study the politics, culture, and language of Middle Eastern nations. But our analyses and case studies demonstrate that Middle East centers have since shifted their focus to promoting left-wing ideologies. "Hijacked: The Capture of America's Middle East Studies…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Educational Change
Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1980
The principal essay, by James E. Harf, describes the state of the art and prescriptions for the future in undergraduate international studies. It points out that undergraduates at some prestigious research-oriented universities and at small, prestigious liberal arts colleges have exposure to international education, but that at the overwhelming…
Descriptors: African Culture, Area Studies, Case Studies, Cross Cultural Studies
Kelleher, Ann – 1996
The case studies presented in this volume offer comparative examples of undergraduate international education innovations in a wide variety of categories: curriculum, study abroad, community outreach, faculty development, and international students. The studies were conducted in the mid-1990s, and programs had to meet several criteria: they had to…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research
Des Harnais, Gaston, Ed. – 1988
Eighty-nine conference papers are presented in 10 sections: (1) language and cultural factors in conducting international business (qualifications for success as an international manager, staffing of international departments, role of second language proficiency, and international management concepts); (2) interdisciplinary language and business…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Area Studies, Business Administration Education
Thompson, Richard T. – Bulletin of the ERIC Clearinghouse for Linguistics, 1971
This article, a reply to William Gage's "Uncommonly Taught Languages" (ED 042 163), takes issue with Gage's assertion that "there is no generally recognized source of guidance for determining needs and priorities for the allocation of the scarce resources in the uncommonly taught languages, but...that a number of useful tools of…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Case Studies, Databases, Government Role
Houghton, Ruth M., Ed. – 1973
Prepared for a symposium presented September 1972 at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference (Salt Lake City) these papers represent political and ethnological research on western Great Basin Indians. The topics include (1) "Developing Political Power in Two Southern Paiute Communities", (2) "Channels of Political Expression…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Anthropology, Area Studies
Craig, John – 1990
This paper reviews the scholarly literature concerned, directly or indirectly, with the implementation of educational policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The first part considers the reasons both for the past neglect of implementation issues and for the current interest in the subject. It also introduces some conceptual issues relevant to the analysis…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Case Studies, Comparative Education, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedKing, Russell – Teaching Geography, 1979
Recounts criticisms of regional geography and points out three reasons for retaining it: growth of regional science, area studies, and regional planning. Evaluates Southern Italy as an example of the uses of regional analyses. For journal availability, see SO 507 291. (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Area Studies, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Kindervatter, Suzanne – 1979
This monograph discusses the role of nonformal education in increasing peoples' powers of self-determination within underdeveloped countries. Chapters I and II review the causes of underdevelopment, ways in which the third world depends upon developed countries, strategies for overcoming dependency, and the role of individuals in promoting their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Area Studies, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Baldwin, Harriet; Ross-Larson, Bruce, Ed. – 1981
This World Bank (Washington, D.C.) kit is a case study designed to introduce secondary school social studies students to a project in Kenya established to strengthen small-scale industries. The kit contains a pamphlet, a booklet, a sound filmstrip, and a teacher's guide. The pamphlet, "Economic Summary: Kenya," points out the severe…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Business Administration, Case Studies, Curriculum Enrichment
New York State Education Dept. , Albany. Bureau of Mass Communications. – 1973
"Families of the World," a series of five, thirty minute television programs designed for elementary children, was produced by the Japanese Broadcasting Company and UNICEF. The programs document the changing role of the family by depicting every day family life in five representative countries throughout the developing world: India,…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Attitude Change, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Baldwin, Harriet; Ross-Larson, Bruce, Ed. – 1981
This World Bank (Washington, D.C.) kit is a case study designed to teach secondary school social studies students about an integrated rural development project in Mexico, and how it is helping to raise the standard of living for six million Mexicans in 131 microregions throughout Mexico. The kit contains a pamphlet, a booklet, a sound filmstrip,…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Case Studies, Curriculum Enrichment, Developing Nations
Berg, Barbro; Ostergren, Bertil – 1977
Included in this report are seven comparative case studies of innovation processes in higher education in Sweden. The purpose of the study is to chart dysfunctions in the system in planning for change, and also to gain more knowledge of the organization by studying it when it has been "disturbed" through introduction of an innovative…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Architectural Education, Area Studies, Art Education
