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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Cultural Ambassadors: American Academics in the Soviet Union, 1958-1991

Hester, Kayla Brooke 12 August 2016 (has links)
In response to the emerging Cold War conflict, American policymakers adopted cultural diplomacy as a permanent component of US foreign policy for the first time. In an attempt to win the hearts and minds of the worlds’ people, American leaders utilized international cultural outreach, through methods such as exchanges of students, teachers, and scientists, traveling exhibitions, radio and television broadcasts, publications, and tourism, among others. In recent decades, many historians have begun to explore the significance of these efforts. However, none of these works have examined the experience of those individuals who actually participated in the exchanges. This work begins to fill that void by focusing on American academics who travelled to the Soviet Union on educational exchange during the Cold War. By exploring their personal reports and recollections of their time behind the Iron Curtain, this study illuminates how they perceived their own nation, its values, and their own sense of national identity and purpose. Ultimately, I argue that these Americans used the image of the inferior Soviet “other” to cement a more unified national identity and affirm their feelings of American exceptionalism. Still, though their belief in American superiority remained constant throughout, their commitment to actively serve as America’s cultural representatives abroad waxed and waned at different points in the Cold War. Namely, although at the start of the program in 1958 exchangees enthusiastically assisted in spreading American values abroad, when American public opinion shifted against the Vietnam War their efforts immediately ceased. This shows specific examples of how conceptions of American ideology changed in this period. For a time, these Americans, and probably many others, abandoned a tenet that had long been central to American identity- the belief that the United States had the duty to assert its ideology globally. It was not until the last years of the Cold War, when American and Soviet leaders made significant improvements in superpower relations, that these individuals felt confident enough to serve again as cultural ambassadors. These fluctuations provide a case study of the direct and personal effects of major political and foreign policy shifts on ordinary Americans.
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Relações de alteridade no contato intercultural: perspectivas de estudantes estrangeiros na Universidade de São Paulo / Alterity relationships in the intercultural contact : perspectives from foreign students at University of Sao Paulo

Silva, Ivy Lima e 14 October 2016 (has links)
Nas últimas décadas do século XXI, os acordos de cooperação acadêmica nacional e internacional entre as universidades têm se intensificado e contribuído para o encontro entre realidades educacionais e culturais diversificadas. Neste contexto, questionamos como as relações interpessoais se desenvolvem, considerando a cultura como mediadora desse processo e da relação com a alteridade. O objetivo principal desta pesquisa é compreender o sentido da experiência intercultural e a relação de alteridade para alunos estrangeiros em intercâmbio acadêmico na Universidade de São Paulo. Com base nas técnicas e procedimentos do método de Jacob Levy Moreno, desenvolvemos uma proposta de interlocução entre o psicodrama e a fenomenologia de Maurice Merleau-Ponty para refletir sobre o tema da alteridade. Foram organizados dois grupos de intervenção sociopsicodramática formados por latino-americanos, europeus e asiáticos com o propósito de descrever e entender os sentidos atribuídos pelos alunos à experiência intercultural. Os temas circunscreveram o sentido da experiência intercultural em termos da língua utilizada, da comparação entre os países e da vivência como estrangeiro, o que se mostrou relevante para a dinâmica do papel de intercambista. A análise dos resultados destacou categorias como: tempo, gênero, referências culturais, idioma, autoconhecimento e vivência ambígua, as quais foram problematizadas na discussão sobre a alteridade. Do ponto de vista teórico-metodológico, a adoção desta abordagem pode conferir aos estudos de Moreno uma leitura ampliada da relação eu-outro, considerando simultaneamente a identidade e a diferença como aspectos destacados pelos grupos. A análise desenvolvida com os grupos de estudantes intercambistas parece apontar, de um lado, para uma importante ação e revisão das práticas universitárias quanto ao acolhimento desta demanda que transforma o próprio contexto da educação. E, de outro, para uma reflexão sobre as possibilidades e limites da alteridade, evidenciando as fronteiras culturais que permeiam as ambiguidades da dimensão do vivido e da experiência de ser estrangeiro no contato intercultural contemporâneo / During the last decades of the 21st century, the national and international academic cooperation agreements between universities have been intensified and contributed to the encounter of diversified cultural and educational realities. In this context, we question how interpersonal relationships are developed, considering culture as a mediator of this process related to otherness. The main objective of this research is to understand the meaning of intercultural experience and the alterity relationship for foreign students in academic exchange in the University of São Paulo. Based on the techniques and procedures of Jacob Levy Moreno\'s method, we proposed a dialogue between psychodrama and phenomenology to reflect the otherness theme. Two groups of sociopsychodramatic intervention were organized formed by latin americans, europeans and asians to describe and understand the senses assigned by the students to the intercultural experience. The themes circunscribed the sense of intercultural experience in terms of the used language, of the comparison between countries and of the living as a foreigner, all relevant to the dynamic of the interchange role. The results highlight categories: time, gender, cultural references, language, self-knowledge and ambiguous living, which were debated regarding otherness. From the technical and methodological point of view, this approach provides Morenos studies a wide reading over the relationship self and the other, considering simultaneously the identity and the difference as aspects highlighted by the groups. The analysis developed with the groups of exchange students seems to indicate, from one side, the need of an action and revision of university procedures about hosting the demand that transforms the context of education itself. From the other side, it indicates towards a reflection over the possibilities and limits of otherness, undergoing the cultural frontiers around the ambiguities of the living dimension and the experience of being a foreigner in the contemporary intercultural contact
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Šiaulių universiteto dėstytojų tarpkultūrinės kompetencijos struktūra ir raiška, dalyvaujant akademinių mainų programose / Structure and Expression of Intercultural Competencies of Siauliai University Lecturers while Participating in Academic Exchange Programmes

Sakalauskienė, Dana 16 August 2007 (has links)
Šio darbo tikslas – atskleisti Šiaulių universiteto dėstytojų tarpkultūrinės kompetencijos struktūrą ir raišką bei patiriamas problemas dėl tarpkultūrinės kompetencijos stokos, dalyvaujant SOCRATES ERASMUS mobilumo programoje. Tyrimo instrumentas – autorės sukurtas pusiau struktūrizuotas interviu klausimynas. Magistro darbe, remiantis Lietuvos ir užsienio mokslinės literatūros bei dokumentų analize, atskleista sąvokų kompetencija, kultūra ir tarpkultūrinė kompetencija tarpusavio sąsajos bei šių sąvokų aiškinimo tradicijos; sukurtas bendrasis tarpkultūrinės kompetencijos teorinis-hipotetinis modelis, atskleidžiantis tarpkultūrinės kompetencijos sampratą, struktūrą, dimensijas. Tyrimas patvirtina autorės suformuluotą mokslinio tyrimo hipotezę, kad dėstytojo tarpkultūrinės kompetencijos modelio dimensijos turi specifinę raišką, atspindinčią aukštosios mokyklos dėstytojo tarpkultūrinę kompetenciją akademinio mobilumo kontekste. / Structure and Expression of Intercultural Competencies of Siauliai University Lecturers while Participating in Academic Exchange Programmes.
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Relações de alteridade no contato intercultural: perspectivas de estudantes estrangeiros na Universidade de São Paulo / Alterity relationships in the intercultural contact : perspectives from foreign students at University of Sao Paulo

Ivy Lima e Silva 14 October 2016 (has links)
Nas últimas décadas do século XXI, os acordos de cooperação acadêmica nacional e internacional entre as universidades têm se intensificado e contribuído para o encontro entre realidades educacionais e culturais diversificadas. Neste contexto, questionamos como as relações interpessoais se desenvolvem, considerando a cultura como mediadora desse processo e da relação com a alteridade. O objetivo principal desta pesquisa é compreender o sentido da experiência intercultural e a relação de alteridade para alunos estrangeiros em intercâmbio acadêmico na Universidade de São Paulo. Com base nas técnicas e procedimentos do método de Jacob Levy Moreno, desenvolvemos uma proposta de interlocução entre o psicodrama e a fenomenologia de Maurice Merleau-Ponty para refletir sobre o tema da alteridade. Foram organizados dois grupos de intervenção sociopsicodramática formados por latino-americanos, europeus e asiáticos com o propósito de descrever e entender os sentidos atribuídos pelos alunos à experiência intercultural. Os temas circunscreveram o sentido da experiência intercultural em termos da língua utilizada, da comparação entre os países e da vivência como estrangeiro, o que se mostrou relevante para a dinâmica do papel de intercambista. A análise dos resultados destacou categorias como: tempo, gênero, referências culturais, idioma, autoconhecimento e vivência ambígua, as quais foram problematizadas na discussão sobre a alteridade. Do ponto de vista teórico-metodológico, a adoção desta abordagem pode conferir aos estudos de Moreno uma leitura ampliada da relação eu-outro, considerando simultaneamente a identidade e a diferença como aspectos destacados pelos grupos. A análise desenvolvida com os grupos de estudantes intercambistas parece apontar, de um lado, para uma importante ação e revisão das práticas universitárias quanto ao acolhimento desta demanda que transforma o próprio contexto da educação. E, de outro, para uma reflexão sobre as possibilidades e limites da alteridade, evidenciando as fronteiras culturais que permeiam as ambiguidades da dimensão do vivido e da experiência de ser estrangeiro no contato intercultural contemporâneo / During the last decades of the 21st century, the national and international academic cooperation agreements between universities have been intensified and contributed to the encounter of diversified cultural and educational realities. In this context, we question how interpersonal relationships are developed, considering culture as a mediator of this process related to otherness. The main objective of this research is to understand the meaning of intercultural experience and the alterity relationship for foreign students in academic exchange in the University of São Paulo. Based on the techniques and procedures of Jacob Levy Moreno\'s method, we proposed a dialogue between psychodrama and phenomenology to reflect the otherness theme. Two groups of sociopsychodramatic intervention were organized formed by latin americans, europeans and asians to describe and understand the senses assigned by the students to the intercultural experience. The themes circunscribed the sense of intercultural experience in terms of the used language, of the comparison between countries and of the living as a foreigner, all relevant to the dynamic of the interchange role. The results highlight categories: time, gender, cultural references, language, self-knowledge and ambiguous living, which were debated regarding otherness. From the technical and methodological point of view, this approach provides Morenos studies a wide reading over the relationship self and the other, considering simultaneously the identity and the difference as aspects highlighted by the groups. The analysis developed with the groups of exchange students seems to indicate, from one side, the need of an action and revision of university procedures about hosting the demand that transforms the context of education itself. From the other side, it indicates towards a reflection over the possibilities and limits of otherness, undergoing the cultural frontiers around the ambiguities of the living dimension and the experience of being a foreigner in the contemporary intercultural contact

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