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Recent Publications

EFL Teacher's AId~a guide for volunteers in English Teaching Projects--PDF

See below for additional educational resources and publications.

Travel Resources

POWELL'S BOOKS An online bookstore provides an extensive selection of used and new books. Browse through their sections of Travel guides, Travel writing, and Foreign Language books.

Travel advisories and warnings according to:

• British Government
• U.S. Government
• Australian Government
• Canadian Government
• Travel tips from SIT's Overseas Travel Clinic
• Calculate foreign currency equivalents
• Health information: Centers for Disease Control
• Student Safety Abroad handbook for students and their parents

United Nations

• International Year of Youth
• International Year of Forests
• International Decade for Action: "Water for Life"
• The Millennium Campaign informs, inspires and encourages people’s involvement and action for the realization of The Millennium Development Goals. An initiative of the United Nations, the Campaign supports citizens’ efforts to hold their government to account for the Millennium promise.
• UN Volunteers website
• UN Women, a United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

UNESCO

• UNESCO Youth Coordination Unit
• UNESCO World Heritage Centre
• UNESCO Ethics Around the World conferences
• UNESCO "Imagining Peace" Initiative, a unique partnership with a football club, promoting a culture of peace among young people through sport, internet and social media.

Information for NGOs

• Conferences at the United Nations of interest to NGOs
• NGO page for the Council of Europe
• Crisis Management: USC Center for Global Education - SAFETI Program Audit List
  A guide for organizations to use in evaluating their policies and procedures with respect to safety
• Crisis Management Handbook from the USC Center for Global Education

Educational Resources

• *NEW* EFL Teacher's AId~a guide for volunteers in English Teaching Projects--PDF
• Library of Congress country reports
• Interesting list of resources especially for refugees
• Report with statistics from The Institute for International Education

• Exploring and Assessing Intercultural Competence

• The Federation of The Experiment in International Living (FEIL) completed its first international research effort – a one and a half year project designed to explore and assess the impact of intercultural experiences provided through service projects. The project was made possible through a funding grant obtained from the Center for Social Development of the Global Service Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

  • Executive Summary
  • Final Report
  • Appendix A FEIL Mission
  • Appendix B FEIL and its Member Organizations
  • Appendix C FEIL Brochure
  • Appendix D Alternate Terms for Intercultural Communication (ICC)
  • Appendix E ICC - A Construct
  • Appendix F ICC Assessment Tools
  • Appendix G Survey Form
  • Appendix H Consent Form
  • Appendix I ICC Bibliography
  • Appendix J Article by Alvino Fantini
  • Appendix K Bennett Article

  Go to the Occasional Paper Series at the School for International Training website to read additional essays, articles and reports from the field of intercultural communication, language education, training and service.
  

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