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For a Bright Future. Cuban Nuclear Engineers Studying in Late Socialist Hungary
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Mónika Szente-Varga – History of Education Review, 2024
Purpose: This research aims to contribute to History of Education Studies as well as to New Cold War Studies, by examining a Reactor Technology Specialist Engineer program, launched in Hungary three times in the 1980s for Cuban nuclear engineers, graduates of the University of Havana. Design/methodology/approach: The institutional setting, the…
Descriptors: Cubans, Engineering Education, Study Abroad, Nuclear Energy
Pedagogy of Global Positioning Leadership as Applied to Study Abroad
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Bongila, J. P. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
This article examines how the pedagogy of Global Positioning Leadership (GPL) enhanced the educational and global leadership mindset of graduate students who participated in three short-term study abroad programs in Cuba (2015), and Brazil (2016 and 2017). In this study, GPL also made use of grounded theory to analyze the change of worldview…
Descriptors: International Education, Study Abroad, World Views, Cultural Awareness
The Power of Being There: Study Abroad in Cuba and the Promotion of a "Culture of Peace"
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Bond, Lynne; Koont, Sinan; Stephenson, Skye – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2005
If one of the main purposes of study abroad is to promote a greater understanding between members of the host and home nation via face-to-face relations and in-country living experiences, there is no place in the world where United States students studying abroad takes on more significance than it does in Cuba. Given a situation in which home and…
Descriptors: Latin American Culture, Peace, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad