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Life in a Fish Bowl: An American in Kazakstan.
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Swezy, Shanta – Educational Leadership, 1997
In June 1993, after three months of intensive teacher training, the author and 45 other Peace Corps volunteers dispersed to towns in Kazakstan, a struggling former Soviet province. Students at Swezy's secondary school spoke broken English, were very respectful, wore uniforms, and were required to share answers and to clean the school regularly.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Cultural Differences, Developing Nations, Economic Change