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- Title: Getting to Know the Neighbors: Library Support for Study Abroad Programs (Company Overview)
- Author : Library Philosophy and Practice
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 98 KB
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Introduction The practice of sending young people abroad to "finish" their education was common primarily among well-to-do families in the 1800's and well into the 1900's. We see examples of this practice in the fictional families that inhabit Jane Austin's novels, and we see travel play a pivotal role in the development of Henry James' character Isabel Archer, in Portrait of a Lady. Ideally, these characters aim for broadening their horizons to become citizens of the world. Though this practice of travel abroad for students in their late teens and early twenties was perhaps a little less likely to happen in the United States' early history, by the end of World War II, many people were becoming aware of the need for such travel for a larger portion of the student population (Bjerkness 2). The heart of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy," put in place in 1933, not only sought to "distance the United States from earlier interventionist policies" (US State Department), but also implied the need to understand other cultures more fully (Bjerkness 2). The huge impact of the war brought home the importance of diplomacy to many in the United States, and in recognition of that need, Senator J. William Fulbright proposed a bill in Congress that "called for the use of surplus war property to fund the "promotion of international good will through the exchange of students in the fields of education, culture and science'" ("Fulbright Program"). The passage of this bill, in effect, formalized study abroad for United States higher education.
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