The Meaning of International Experience for Schools

List of contents

Introduction: From Lakewood to Liberia to Lexington
International Experience and Schools: The Context and the Problems
The Impact of International Experience
Teachers with International Experience: "They Know More"
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Who Teach: Fulfilling the Third Purpose
An Afghan Sixth Grader: "Making My Country Remembered"
A Little United Nations School: It's a Natural
International Student Visitors at School: "Someone from Another World"
The International Studies Academy: Becoming an International Educational Community
Utilizing International Experience: Ideas for Implementation
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

About the author

ANGENE HOPKINS WILSON is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Kentucky, and Associate Director of its Office of International Affairs. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1960s, and a teacher educator in West Africa and the South Pacific. Wilson has written and spoken extensively about internationalization of university campuses.

Product details

• Authors: Angene H. Wilson, Angene Hopkins Wilson
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.1993
• EAN: 9780275945084
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94508-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Weight: 425 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, EDUCATION / Curricula, Sociology & anthropology, Curriculum planning & development, Sociology and anthropology, Curriculum planning and development, Current Events and Issues: Education