Teaching, Learning, and Facilitation

Tripping Over or Reconciling the Words of Internationalization

Has the discussion of internationalization become a scattershot of terms without an underlying coherency? Some conversations suggest that the terms are set in opposition, ("internationalization versus globalization"), or that one term is dying while another is rising ("globalization replacing
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Does Study Abroad Accelerate Personal Growth?

International educators have long sought research studies to support their direct observations: Students, when they return from study abroad, appear more mature than when they left. Is this due to the fact that the students are older, or is there something about the experience abroad that has
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The U.S. Community College and the Law of the Retarding Lead

The law of the retarding lead is used by political scientists, economists, and anthropologists to describe the phenomenon by which the best-adapted and most successful societies have the greatest difficulty in changing and retaining their lead in a period of transition. Conversely, societies
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