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Download full textInstitute of International Education, New York, NY. – 1993
This document features writings and curriculum projects developed by teachers who traveled to Poland and Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1992 as members of a Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar. The following items are among those included: "Curriculum Project: Women and Work: A Global Perspective" (Joan K. Burton); "The Community College…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture
Peer reviewedMestenhauser, Josef A. – Social Education, 1991
Describes an individual's experience returning to his native Czechoslovakia, 43 years after fleeing Communism. Discusses problems faced in transforming people conditioned to an authoritarian state into citizens of a democracy. Stresses that good intentions and sincerity are not enough to understand area studies and the importance of intercultural…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Communism, Democracy, Economic Change
