Category: Research

Reflection, Reconsideration, and Reconnection: Moving Beyond Re-entry

As educators, as students, or as travelers, when we return from experiences abroad everything around us suggests that it’s time to return to “normal living,” life as it is, and by extension life as it should be. The mismatch between these strong environmental pressures to return to normal and our own deeply felt changes can lead to varying degrees of reverse culture shock.

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Cooperating in an Age of Competition: A Psychological Examination of Conflict Resolution

In the summer of 1954, twenty-two 11-year-old boys from Oklahoma City headed to overnight camp. Unbeknownst to them, they were taking part in one of history’s most interesting social experiments designed by psychologist Muzafer Sherif. He was interested in discovering how conflict unfolds naturally in groups.

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BEVI: Beliefs, Events and Values Inventory Update from Pennsylvania

Commentary on the BEVI Certification Training - Beliefs, Events and Values Inventory in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (SIIC)

Intercultural Professional Development Opportunities, highlighting the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon, US.

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Forum on Education Abroad Conference: Recent Research on Student Learning and Development Through Study Abroad

Recent research on international education.

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Forum on Education Abroad Conference: Day 1 (March 24, 2010)

Summary of sessions at day one of the Standards Institute at the Forum on Education Abroad Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Deciding Factors in Study Abroad – Women vs Men

Article on research from Iowa (from the Chronicle of Higher Education) and Missy Gluckmann's commentary about why more women study abroad than men.

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