Author: Katharine T. Kinkead
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393073843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In Walk Together, Talk Together, Katharine Kinkead has written an informative and moving book about the AFS exchange program and its diversified operations.
Walk Together, Talk Together
Author: Katharine T. Kinkead
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393073843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In Walk Together, Talk Together, Katharine Kinkead has written an informative and moving book about the AFS exchange program and its diversified operations.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393073843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In Walk Together, Talk Together, Katharine Kinkead has written an informative and moving book about the AFS exchange program and its diversified operations.
Encyclopedia of War and American Society
Author: Peter Karsten
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761930973
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1385
Book Description
Publisher description.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761930973
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1385
Book Description
Publisher description.
Where the Border Stands
Author: Roberto Ruffino
Publisher: HOEPLI EDITORE
ISBN: 8820364948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The worth of dialogue with people who come from other cultural traditions was the first important discovery of the ambulance drivers at the front. It led them to care for the wounded on all sides in the war and then to create university exchanges between France and the United States. The practice of intercultural dialogue is the first training experience that is offered today to the students who leave home and to the families who receive them in their homes as new children for long periods of time. As this story unfolds, it is perhaps the border that emerges as something to question – the political borders that the American Field Service ambulance drivers crossed in two world wars, and the cultural and ideological borders overcome by students, schools, and families that answered the call of AFS.
Publisher: HOEPLI EDITORE
ISBN: 8820364948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The worth of dialogue with people who come from other cultural traditions was the first important discovery of the ambulance drivers at the front. It led them to care for the wounded on all sides in the war and then to create university exchanges between France and the United States. The practice of intercultural dialogue is the first training experience that is offered today to the students who leave home and to the families who receive them in their homes as new children for long periods of time. As this story unfolds, it is perhaps the border that emerges as something to question – the political borders that the American Field Service ambulance drivers crossed in two world wars, and the cultural and ideological borders overcome by students, schools, and families that answered the call of AFS.
The Extraordinary Journey of Harry Forth
Author: Bruce K. Byers
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1496950534
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
January 1950 - A small boy, his brother, and his father abandon their car in a blizzard near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Evening approaches and he fears being left behind. As they push on towards a distant highway, they hear a vehicle behind them. It stops and the driver offers a lift. They climb in and he returns them to the motel where his mother anxiously awaits them. The experience leaves a deep impression on the boy that stays with him into old age. January 1960 - Now a junior in high school, the young man struggles to fit in. He's attracted to several girls but is too shy to ask them out. Instead, he concentrates on his after-school jobs. His church and membership in Explorer Scouts remind him of obligations when he really wants to enjoy greater independence. He reaches a critical turning point when his French language teacher persuades him to apply for a summer student exchange program. Still struggling to define his identity, he applies and hopes to be accepted. After failing a major French exam he doubts his chances. His teacher offers him a make-up exam, but first he must write an essay about the exchange program and why he would like to live with a host family in another country. He meets this challenge and is accepted but not in France. An exchange of letters with the son of a host family in Germany heightens his desire to escape his hum-drum suburban life and set out on a great adventure. Using his own money, he buys a ticket on a transcontinental bus and heads for Montreal to board a ship for Europe. Along the way he meets several interesting passengers. He embarks with hundreds of other young Americans from across the country on a ten-day Atlantic crossing. The young man soon realizes that he is on a much grander voyage to see a more interesting world than he had ever imagined in his home town. Reaching port in Holland, he and the others board trains for destinations across Europe. He anticipates that the summer will be a turning point in his life.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1496950534
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
January 1950 - A small boy, his brother, and his father abandon their car in a blizzard near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Evening approaches and he fears being left behind. As they push on towards a distant highway, they hear a vehicle behind them. It stops and the driver offers a lift. They climb in and he returns them to the motel where his mother anxiously awaits them. The experience leaves a deep impression on the boy that stays with him into old age. January 1960 - Now a junior in high school, the young man struggles to fit in. He's attracted to several girls but is too shy to ask them out. Instead, he concentrates on his after-school jobs. His church and membership in Explorer Scouts remind him of obligations when he really wants to enjoy greater independence. He reaches a critical turning point when his French language teacher persuades him to apply for a summer student exchange program. Still struggling to define his identity, he applies and hopes to be accepted. After failing a major French exam he doubts his chances. His teacher offers him a make-up exam, but first he must write an essay about the exchange program and why he would like to live with a host family in another country. He meets this challenge and is accepted but not in France. An exchange of letters with the son of a host family in Germany heightens his desire to escape his hum-drum suburban life and set out on a great adventure. Using his own money, he buys a ticket on a transcontinental bus and heads for Montreal to board a ship for Europe. Along the way he meets several interesting passengers. He embarks with hundreds of other young Americans from across the country on a ten-day Atlantic crossing. The young man soon realizes that he is on a much grander voyage to see a more interesting world than he had ever imagined in his home town. Reaching port in Holland, he and the others board trains for destinations across Europe. He anticipates that the summer will be a turning point in his life.
International Educational Exchange
Author: Thomas Ewing Cotner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational counseling
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational counseling
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Reminders
Author: Lars Lindahl
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462865399
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
REMINDERS represents the author's chief emerging realizations by systematically viewing problems and help within an experiential family therapeutic perspective. Ample considerations on behavior deemed problematic are imparted as well as the allegedly desired qualities, skills and knowledge of the presumptive helper. Young people ought never to be diagnosed with the traditional psychopathological labels. Exhaustive descriptions will do, even though the youngster is exacting to live with. Descriptive statement by necessity will involve the context, and this is only rightfully so since context always holds a heavy hand in the present becoming and development of the young person. Descriptive statements will be of a more decisive diagnostic value. Tagging is frequently uncalled for. It represents a step of empowerment of the diagnostician, the emperor's new clothes in incessant remaking. Helpers far too often avoid contextual involvement and make assumptions, generalizations and conceptualizations by extracting restricted aspects of the reality they ought to address. The price tag for this sorry state of affairs must exclusively be attached to the client. The aspiration of REMINDERS is mostly to emphatically reinstate the experiential voice of the individual, and to remind helpers that the territory they enter is love's striving and hopeful manifestations. This is an area in which experts are conspicuous by their absence. The presence and intervention of helpers have a definite but restricted applicability and say. Helper enactment capacity at experiential negotiation is the byword. In the wake of good enough personal encounter asymptomatic and growth-inducing relatedness becomes feasible.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462865399
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
REMINDERS represents the author's chief emerging realizations by systematically viewing problems and help within an experiential family therapeutic perspective. Ample considerations on behavior deemed problematic are imparted as well as the allegedly desired qualities, skills and knowledge of the presumptive helper. Young people ought never to be diagnosed with the traditional psychopathological labels. Exhaustive descriptions will do, even though the youngster is exacting to live with. Descriptive statement by necessity will involve the context, and this is only rightfully so since context always holds a heavy hand in the present becoming and development of the young person. Descriptive statements will be of a more decisive diagnostic value. Tagging is frequently uncalled for. It represents a step of empowerment of the diagnostician, the emperor's new clothes in incessant remaking. Helpers far too often avoid contextual involvement and make assumptions, generalizations and conceptualizations by extracting restricted aspects of the reality they ought to address. The price tag for this sorry state of affairs must exclusively be attached to the client. The aspiration of REMINDERS is mostly to emphatically reinstate the experiential voice of the individual, and to remind helpers that the territory they enter is love's striving and hopeful manifestations. This is an area in which experts are conspicuous by their absence. The presence and intervention of helpers have a definite but restricted applicability and say. Helper enactment capacity at experiential negotiation is the byword. In the wake of good enough personal encounter asymptomatic and growth-inducing relatedness becomes feasible.
The 60s
Author: Henry Finder
Publisher:
ISBN: 0679644830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Introduction / David Remnick -- Part I. Reckonings -- Part II. American scenes -- Part III. New arrivals -- Part IV. Youth in revolt -- Part V. Civil rights -- Part VI. Shots were fired -- Part VII. Farther shores -- Part VIII. Artists & athletes -- Part IX. Comic turns -- Part X. Critics -- Part XI. Fiction
Publisher:
ISBN: 0679644830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Introduction / David Remnick -- Part I. Reckonings -- Part II. American scenes -- Part III. New arrivals -- Part IV. Youth in revolt -- Part V. Civil rights -- Part VI. Shots were fired -- Part VII. Farther shores -- Part VIII. Artists & athletes -- Part IX. Comic turns -- Part X. Critics -- Part XI. Fiction
Accessions List
Author: United States. Department of State. Library Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Culture
Author: Michael H. Agar
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538118122
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Culture: How to Make It Work in a World of Hybrids offers a compelling and original way to think about promoting connections across human differences in our global society. This book provides a fresh vision for the core anthropological concept of “culture,” one attuned to our contemporary global society where people receive hybrid cultural influences from many places in many ways. Providing a stimulating look at one of the most basic topics in social science, it is written without academic jargon, is rich in humor, and is replete with provocative examples, making it accessible to undergraduate students in anthropology and other social sciences as well as to scholars and non-academic readers in fields where the fostering of intercultural (or, as this book argues, inter-hybrid) communications is vital. Michael Agar explores two meanings of culture: culture as a label for the beliefs and practices of a specific group, and culture as marking the boundary between modern humans and our ancestors together with the rest of the animal kingdom (although this book acknowledges that that boundary has changed to a slippery slope). By looking back at the emergence of language and culture, through a broad range of the social and natural sciences, those human universals that make connections across human differences possible—as well as those that constrain that ability—are identified. This book concludes with a discussion of social perspective taking as a promising approach toward the development of a shared “languaculture” by any group of diverse—hybrid—humans who need to work together to accomplish whatever task is at hand.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538118122
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Culture: How to Make It Work in a World of Hybrids offers a compelling and original way to think about promoting connections across human differences in our global society. This book provides a fresh vision for the core anthropological concept of “culture,” one attuned to our contemporary global society where people receive hybrid cultural influences from many places in many ways. Providing a stimulating look at one of the most basic topics in social science, it is written without academic jargon, is rich in humor, and is replete with provocative examples, making it accessible to undergraduate students in anthropology and other social sciences as well as to scholars and non-academic readers in fields where the fostering of intercultural (or, as this book argues, inter-hybrid) communications is vital. Michael Agar explores two meanings of culture: culture as a label for the beliefs and practices of a specific group, and culture as marking the boundary between modern humans and our ancestors together with the rest of the animal kingdom (although this book acknowledges that that boundary has changed to a slippery slope). By looking back at the emergence of language and culture, through a broad range of the social and natural sciences, those human universals that make connections across human differences possible—as well as those that constrain that ability—are identified. This book concludes with a discussion of social perspective taking as a promising approach toward the development of a shared “languaculture” by any group of diverse—hybrid—humans who need to work together to accomplish whatever task is at hand.
California 1966
Author: Irene Schloer
Publisher: TWENTYSIX
ISBN: 3740780428
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
When the author gets invited to attend the 50th anniversary of her American high school, she doesn't even consider going. After all, there would be more than 8,000 miles to travel - each way. But as coicidence wants it, around this time she is busy discluttering her mother's apartment and finds a bunch of letters in her own handwriting. Her mother had saved each and every letter she had writtten home while an exchange student in California back in 1966. When she starts reading, memories come back fast and powerful. The things which have meanwhile changed,not only in the US, are amazing, intriguing and funny to read.
Publisher: TWENTYSIX
ISBN: 3740780428
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
When the author gets invited to attend the 50th anniversary of her American high school, she doesn't even consider going. After all, there would be more than 8,000 miles to travel - each way. But as coicidence wants it, around this time she is busy discluttering her mother's apartment and finds a bunch of letters in her own handwriting. Her mother had saved each and every letter she had writtten home while an exchange student in California back in 1966. When she starts reading, memories come back fast and powerful. The things which have meanwhile changed,not only in the US, are amazing, intriguing and funny to read.