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Camping in the Commonwealth. Or, Will Camper Exchanges Outlast the Soviet Union?
Stager, Jay R. – Camping Magazine, 1992
Traces the development of camper exchange programs between the United States and the Soviet Union; notes differences between Soviet and U.S. residential camps; and discusses the benefits and future of camper exchange programs. Since 1987, 70 U.S. residential camps have hosted Soviet children and hundreds of U.S. campers have attended Soviet camps.…
Descriptors: Camping, Cultural Exchange, Elementary Secondary Education, Exchange Programs
The Children of the Dream: Postwar Planning for the First Camp of the Children's International Summer Villages Organization.
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Green, James L. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 1995
Traces the early history of Children's International Summer Villages, developed by Doris Allen in the late 1940s to promote peace and global understanding by exposing mixed groups of 11-year olds from different countries to a month-long experience in international living. The first camp, held near Cincinnati in 1951, included a social science…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Intercultural Programs, International Educational Exchange
Internationalize Your Camp Staff.
Grier, Linda J. – Camping Magazine, 1986
Provides a rationale for using international applicants for American summer camp positions and summarizes the services of organizations that screen, interview, and orient qualified applicants. Discusses contributions that international staff can make to a camp program with a global perspective and points out staff orientation and other practical…
Descriptors: Camping, Cultural Exchange, Day Camp Programs, Foreign Nationals
Touching the Lives of Counselors: What It Means To Experience Diversity at Camp.
Camping Magazine, 1994
Camp Adventure is an international youth organization that trains college students to work as camp counselors at camps on U.S. military bases. Diary excerpts from four camp counselors (three who worked in Panama and one in the United States) reveal how they adapted to diversity in people, locales, and cultures. (LP)
Descriptors: Camping, College Students, Consciousness Raising, Counselor Attitudes
Recruiting International Campers.
Stager, Jay – Camping Magazine, 1986
Urges the youth camping movement in the United States to internationalize by vigorously seeking and including children of the world in their summer communities. Provides practical and specific guidelines regarding recruitment of international campers, financial aid, communication with parents, legalities, travel considerations, and adjustment to…
Descriptors: Camping, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Students, Futures (of Society)
The Interlocken Difference: Four Decades of Experiential Learning and Community Building Worldwide.
Hill, Amie; Herman, Richard – 1998
Based on structured interviews with Interlocken students, staff, parents, and alumni, this book presents a historical account of the international coeducational camp, Interlocken, founded in 1961, and its practice and philosophy of experiential education. Section 1 explains the innovative summer-camp/youth-travel mission of Interlocken and its…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Camping, Cultural Exchange, Experiential Learning