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Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations. Global Exchanges provides a wide-ranging overview of this underresearched topic, examining the scope,  scale and evolution of organized exchanges around the globe through the twentieth century. In doing so it dramatically reveals the true extent of organized exchange and its essential contribution for knowledge transfer, cultural interchange, and the formation of global networks so often taken for granted today.

Matthew K. Shannon provides readers with a reminder of a brief and congenial phase of the relationship between the United States and Iran. In Losing Hearts and Minds , Shannon tells the story of an influx of Iranian students to American college campuses between 1950 and 1979 that globalized U.S. institutions of higher education and produced alliances between Iranian youths and progressive Americans. Losing Hearts and Minds is a narrative rife with historical ironies. Because of its superpower competition with the USSR, the U.S. government worked with nongovernmental organizations to create the means for Iranians to train and study in the United States. The stated goal of this initiative was to establish a cultural foundation for the official relationship and to provide Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with educated elites to administer an ambitious program of socioeconomic development. Despite these goals, Shannon locates the incubation of at least one possible version of the Iranian Revolution on American college campuses, which provided a space for a large and vocal community of dissident Iranian students to organize against the Pahlavi regime and earn the support of empathetic Americans. Together they rejected the Shah's authoritarian model of development and called for civil and political rights in Iran, giving unwitting support to the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Examines the complex role of international education exchange in promoting peace and intercultural understanding. The perception that international education encourages greater understanding and cooperation between, people, cultures, and nations continues to drive participation and resources to this growing sector. With thought-provoking theoretical discussions and a broad range of case studies, this volume provides a much needed critical exploration of the ways in which international education exchanges may impact individuals as well as broader issues of global peace and development.

Over the past two decades, international cooperation in higher education has become the norm in China and around the world. To exemplify these relationships, this edited volume devotes individual chapters to case studies of China-U.S. international higher education partnerships focused on 1) Collaborative graduate programs; 2) Research collaborations; 3) Student mobility; 4) Multi-institution collaborations; 5) Cultural exchanges; and 6) Branch campuses. These case studies will illuminate the strategies, challenges, and perceived benefits of cross-national collaboration. Case studies are bookended with introductory and concluding chapters that link cooperative activities to theory on diplomacy (including Western \"soft diplomacy\" and Chinese five principles of \"peaceful coexistence\" narratives); internationalization of higher education; and reflections on student and scholar mobility between Chinese and US institutions.

01 02 The Capacity to Share is a discussion of Cuba's international policies in education. It shows how Cuba shares its educational resources with other countries by helping them with scholarships; school and university teaching; and the development of adult literacy programs and of educational planning. The postcolonial critique underlying the book explores Cuba's role in relation to how the disengagement from colonial legacies in education is taking place in many countries. This kind of critique is useful in discussing the alternatives that become possible with disentanglement from the constraints of colonial histories. 31 02 The first comprehensive study of Cuba's international role in improving education 13 02 Rosemary Preston is director of the International Centre for Continuing Education (INCED) at the University of Warwick. Anne Hickling-Hudson is an associate professor of International and Cross-cultural Education in Australia at the Queensland University of Technology's School of Cultural and Language Studies, Faculty of Education. Jorge Corona Gonzalez teaches Political Economy at the University of Havana. A former president of the Pedagogical Institute for Latin America and the Caribbean, he is currently special advisor on International Collaboration in Cuba's Ministry of Education, and a member of the UNESCO Chair in Educational Sciences. 19 02 It is the first comprehensive analysis of Cuba's international role in improving education and will appeal to readers curious about Cuba The first comprehensive analysis of the development potential of 'South-South' collaboration in education thus opens up a new space in the field of development education It helps academics, students and policy-makers to challenge preconceptions about educational aid, showing up the limitations of the traditional approach compared to the radically different approaches pioneered by Cuba Provides a basis for comparing the experiences of overseas students in other countries at a time when the global student market is increasing Avaluable addition to postcolonial analysis of the efforts of decolonising countries to tackle cooperatively the vast problems of the aftermath of colonialism, particularly in Education 04 02 PART I: THE GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL CRISIS, INTERNATIONAL AID, AND SOUTH-SOUTH COLLABORATION: THE ROLE OF CUBA Global Educational Underdevelopment and the Role of Aid; A.Hickling-Hudson, J.Corona Gonzalez & S.Lehr The Solidarity Approach: South-South Cooperation and Cuba's International Role in Health & Education; A.Hickling-Hudson, J.Corona Gonzalez & S.Lehr; with M.Majoli Cuba's Education System: a Foundation for 'the Capacity to Share'; E.Martín Sabina, J.Corona Gonzalez & A.Hickling-Hudson PART II: STUDYING IN CUBA; RETURNING HOME TO WORK International Students in Cuban Universities and Colleges; F.Martinez Perez The Children of the Isle of Youth: How Ghanaian Students Learned to Cope with 'Anything in Life'; S.Lehr Studying in Cuba; Returning Home to Work. The Experience of Graduates from the English-speaking Caribbean; A.Hickling-Hudson Destinations of Africans After Study in Cuba: the Namibian Experience; R.Preston PART III: CUBAN EDUCATORS OVERSEAS The Cuban Internationalist Mission in Education. The Example of Angola 1976-1991; C.Hatzky Educational Administration and University Management: Cuban Collaboration in Latin America; B.Trista Perez Cubans Teaching Overseas; A.Hickling-Hudson Cuba's Contribution to Adult Literacy, Popular Education and Peace-building in Timor-Leste; B.Boughton 02 02 This discussion of Cuba's international policies in education shows how Cuba shares its educational resources with other countries. The postcolonial critique underlying the book explores Cuba's role in relation to how the disengagement from colonial legacies in education is taking place in many countries.

For almost forty years, under the watchful eye of the apartheid regime, some three thousand South Africans participated in cultural and educational exchange with the United States. Exposure to American democracy brought hope during a time when social and political change seemed unlikely. In the end the process silently triumphed over the resistance of authorities, and many of the individuals who participated in the program later participated in South Africa's first democratic elections, in 1994, and now occupy key positions in academia, the media, parliament, and the judiciary. In Outsmarting Apartheid , Daniel Whitman, former Program Development Officer at the US Embassy in Pretoria, interviews the South Africans and Americans who administered, advanced, and benefited from government-funded exchange. The result is a detailed account of the workings and effectiveness of the US Information Agency and a demonstration of the value of \"soft power\" in easing democratic transition in a troubled area.