Argues the importance of a global perspective in the curriculum of secondary schools. Asserts that the principal plays a major role in accomplishing such a perspective. (IRT)

Discusses the educational implications of simulations in international relations. Highlights include the development of international relations simulations; the role of technology; the International Communication and Negotiation Simulations (ICONS) project at the University of Maryland; evolving information technology; and simulating real-world…

The history of international education is intimately connected to the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union during the second half of the twentieth century. Graduate programs established at colleges and universities in the United States were the outgrowth of a need to create cosmopolitan experts, capable of demonstrating the…

This document on teaching about the effects of the world on everyday lives argues that this knowledge does not come naturally because of the traditions in teaching and research in international relations. This field of study traditionally has focused on the relations between territorial states in the interstate system, and on the foreign policies…

This article presents the functions and functioning of the new program of the American Council on Education, the International Education Project, established in 1973 to replace the Commission on International Education terminated in 1970. (SC)

Certain educational objectives are proposed for undergraduate and graduate international studies education, investigating the interrelationship of these objectives and evaluating the appropriateness and adequacy of current texts for such objectives. (Author/KM)

Describes the summer programs at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii concerning social forces in our cities; pest control; population planning; and regional universities. (PG)

International university cooperation is the main purpose of the International Association of Universities (IAU). Certain problems arise in the field of international cooperation and particularly in the field of assistance. The helping hand easily becomes a dominating hand while the notion of mutual exchange presupposes the existence and…

This study focuses on the training of students from the developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America in a special institution in the Soviet Union established for the purpose, the Peoples' Friendship University. Since its founding in 1960, this unique institution has been the subject of considerable interest among educators and others…

The objective of this study was to increase understanding about the nature and processes of interinstitutional cooperation in higher education, particularly as related to international educational development, and to suggest guidelines for the improvement of cooperative endeavors. The study deals with 10 representative member institutions of the…

Over four hundred books and articles published between 1917 and 1970 dealing with aspects of international revolution and intervention are listed in this bibliography for use in secondary social studies classrooms. The bibliography is divided into two major parts by types of materials with each of the two sections arranged geographically by…

Results of a study undertaken at the University of Tennessee to compare the perceptions of four nationality groups (Americans, Chinese, Indians, and Iranians) of students toward themselves and three other nationalities. (Author)

Describes the work of some of the professional organizations in education that have developed programs in international education. (MF)