International Education Programs and Political Influence [electronic resource] : Manufacturing Sympathy? /
Wilson, I.author.
Exchange programs are often considered to create goodwill for host countries among foreign citizens - yet is this the case? Drawing on a wealth of research with participants and alumni of exchange programs, Iain Wilson shows that the pursuit of goodwill receives little return and distracts these programs from the benefits they are able to deliver.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; My Argument in Outline; 1 Political Expectations; Rhetoric; Administrative Behavior; 2 Can We Infer That Mobility Has Political Impact? Some Historical Case Studies; Four Revealing Scholarships; Marshall Scholarships; The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan; Chevening Scholarships; Entente Cordiale Scholarships; Patterns of Objectives; 3 How Strong Is the Evidence of Political Impact?; How We Could Know; 4 How Can We Detect Short-Term Impact (and What Does That Mean)?; My Surveys
Tracking Erasmus StudentsThe Erasmus Panel; Analysis; 5 Short-Term Impacts of Erasmus Mobility; Contact Details and Tracer; European Versus National Identity; Territorial Attachment; World Values; Voting Behavior; International Affairs; Demographics; Public Administration and Host Country; Policy Transfer; Comparative Policy Approval; Policy Transfer: Host to Home; Specific Policy Areas; Policy Transfer: Home to Host; Host Country; Summary of results; Conclusions; 6 Varieties of Experience; Maturity; Generalization of Affect; Status; Marion; Selltiz et al. and Foreign Friends
7 Individual PerspectivesWhich Respondents Consented to Interview?; Support for Mobility; "Soft" Factors: Status and Happiness; Prior Experience; Contact with the French; Political Attitudes; Career Plans; Policy Ideas; Conclusions; 8 Impact over Decades; Retrospective Views; Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows; Personal Development; Individual Experiences and Individual Change; Ongoing Relations with the Host Country; Attitudes toward the UK; Policy Learning; Conclusion; Drifting Objectives; Political Influence by Other Means; The Problem of Unsustainable Assumptions; Appendices; Notes
IntroductionChapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; References; Interviews; Publications; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Exchange programs are often considered to create goodwill for host countries among foreign citizens - yet is this the case? Drawing on a wealth of research with participants and alumni of exchange programs, Iain Wilson shows that the pursuit of goodwill receives little return and distracts these programs from the benefits they are able to deliver.
ERASMUS (Organization)
Diplomacy.
Higher education.
International relations.
International education .
Comparative education.
Diplomacy.
Higher Education.
International Relations.
International and Comparative Education.