Pedagogica Deserta: Memoir of a Fulbright Year in Syria.

Pickering, Samuel, Jr.

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Publication Date: 1981

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Pedagogica Deserta: Memoir of a Fulbright Year in Syria.

Pickering, Samuel, Jr.

American Scholar, v50 n2 p163-77 Spr 1981

This American author's account of a year spent teaching English at Tishreen University in Latakia, Syria, focuses on the educational environment, his relationships with students, cultural differences, and the background of political violence. (SJL)

Descriptors: College Instruction, Cultural Differences, Developing Nations, Educational Environment, Higher Education, Overseas Employment, Violence

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Syria

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