It's been over 60 years since the very beginning of European integration when European Coal and Steel Community was established in 1951. In terms of developmental stage, European integration has already passed economic integration and political integration. Profound educational integration is the next development goal of European community. As the…

This paper discusses issues concerning the internalization of higher education institutions in China. Internationalization of a university involves the internationalization of the curriculum, the administration and management, collaborative academic research, and exchange of students and staff.

Twenty first century teachers need to be proficient in technology, skilled as reflective practitioners, and able to reflect on diversity in a myriad of ways: learning styles, special needs, cultural differences, racial differences, developmentally appropriate differences, teaching styles, and personality differences of children, teachers, parents,…

Describes an international understanding program at the UNESCO Associated School, Kaitaa Secondary School in Espoo, Finland. Objectives of the program are to promote international awareness and readiness for cooperation among students in our school and abroad. (CK)

An annotated bibliography includes 66 items drawn from a wide variety of sources including scholarly journals, government reports, books, newspapers, and ERIC documents. While many of the cited works focus on educational exchange programs between China and Western nations since the Cultural Revolution, some of the sources deal with earlier…

Some non-educational sources of motives for study abroad are analyzed." (Author/SE)

A 3-year study involved having 19 fifth and sixth grade students attend school with Russian peers for 10 days and, later, having Russian students attend U.S. schools. Findings indicated that the Russian students perceived greater difficulty in a differentiated curriculum for gifted students than did the U.S. sample. (DB)

This publication contains the papers of the Venice Colloquium held in October, 1977 by educators from European countries to discuss the topic of visits and exchanges for pupils. There are seven chapters. Chapter one discusses the context and objectives of the colloquium. Chapter two describes pupil visits and exchanges in the European community.…

As a participant in an international student exchange program, the author visited elementary schools in Hungary. Her observations of the approach to mathematics instruction in several schools are provided. (SD)

This report documents the Strategies to Advance the Internalization of Learning (SAIL) program developed at Michigan State University (MSU) to promote international, comparative, and cross-cultural learning and cross-cultural understanding in the university community. A total of 350 foreign and U.S. students who had international experience…

Dutch programs, courses, and policy for foreign student education are described. (DE)

Teaching elements in a world-minded program and global teaching techniques are discussed in light of today's new global society which requires the traits of world-mindedness. (ND)

In order to ensure German-American friendship in future years, both student and teacher exchange programs, especially at the high school level, are needed. (RM)

Swiss college students relate their impressions concerning a visit they made to Senegal as part of a Swiss-Senegalese student exchange. (RM)

Educational developments in Mexico, South America, and Southeast Asia are covered in five seminar papers. In addition, country educational profiles are presented on Mexico, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia. In "International Students from Southeast Asia," John F. Brohm considers the following…