Reeducation im Zeichen des US Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Smith-Mundt Act)

2014 ◽  
pp. 19-34 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Exchange

International Interprofessional Collaboration: The Benefits of Global Networking

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (17) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Deborah Ross-Swain ◽  
Beryl Fogel ◽  
Elaine Fogel Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Educational Exchange ◽  
National Board ◽  
Medical Practitioners

This article summarizes and highlights the benefits of international interprofessional collaboration amongst speech-language pathologists (SLPs). The California Speech-Language and Hearing Association (CSHA) was invited by the National Board of Education of Finland to participate in an academic/educational exchange with educators, SLPs, and medical practitioners. SLPs globally are experiencing shared interests, practice issues, training challenges, outreach opportunities and limitations, shortages, interprofessional collaboration and education challenges and successes, and the desire to network and learn from each other. This article will describe the benefits of academic/educational exchange opportunities for our profession and possible outcomes for global networking.

Symbiotic Brain Drains

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeline Y. Hsu
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Educational Exchange ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter analyzes immigration reform and the knowledge worker recruitment aspects of the Hart–Celler Act of 1965 to track the intensifying convergence of educational exchange programs, economic nationalism, and immigration reform. During the Cold War, the State Department expanded cultural diplomacy programs so that the numbers of international students burgeoned, particularly in the fields of science. Although the programs were initially conceived as a way of instilling influence over the future leaders of developing nations, international students, particularly from Taiwan, India, and South Korea, took advantage of minor changes in immigration laws and bureaucratic procedures that allowed students, skilled workers, and technical trainees to gain legal employment and eventually permanent residency and thereby remain in the United States.

Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS in Poland: Opportunities for Educational Exchange

1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-109
Author(s):  
Patrick G. O'Connor ◽  
Ann B. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Educational Exchange ◽  
Hiv Aids

‘Experience is the only teacher’: Academic ambassadors interpret ‘mutual understanding’

2019 ◽  
pp. 130-148
Author(s):  
Alice Garner ◽  
Diane Kirkby
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
National Government ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Educational Exchange ◽  
Political Interference ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Academic Ambassadors

The Vietnam War posed significant challenges to academics on educational exchange who were expected under the Fulbright program to be ambassadors as well as researchers. The CIA surveillance of the anti-war movement and political interference in the administration of the Fulbright program from government caused academics in both Australia and America to defend the autonomy of the Program. How did scholars interpret the ambassadorial expectation when they were opposed to their government’s foreign policy? Many also found they could not speak critically of their national government without antagonising their hosts. Living up to the Fulbright program’s ideal of achieving ‘mutual understanding’ was very much a matter of learning by experience, to be interpreted by scholars for whom research was actually the priority.

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