"The Fulbright Difference": The Future of Visiting Academics in Turkey and Elsewhere

Laurence RAW

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"The Fulbright Difference": The Future of Visiting Academics in Turkey and Elsewhere

Yazarlar:

Laurence RAW

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2002 Issue 15, pp.23-31

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2002

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735065

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

Let me begin this article with two provisos; it will not seek to analyze the work of the  Fulbright Commission in any great detail; nor will it comment on the effectiveness of that  work. My title was inspired by a 1992 book of the same name, which contained the  reminiscences of forty American academics of their experiences in foreign countries, with the  express purpose of demonstrating the effectiveness of the Fulbright program in promoting  "the spirit of the Fulbright idea", which involves increasing awareness of the meaning of  freedom and its most successful political construct Democracy  Arndt and Rubin, 1993: 1-3 .  For the editors of this volume, the "difference" involves changing certain "habits of the heart  and mind", both in the Fulbright academics themselves, and in the people whom they  associated with on their foreign trips  Arndt and Rubin, 1993: 2 . But clearly there are other  types of difference involved in these types of exchange, which have more to do with cultural  differences encountered by academics when working in a foreign context; and it is these types  of difference that I shall examine here. In other words, what I want to do is to focus on the  question of whether such differences encountered by academics working abroad can be  successfully engaged with  if not necessarily overcome , and thereby promote a "difference" -  or a change - in people's ways of thinking.

Makale detayları

"The Fulbright Difference": The Future of Visiting Academics in Turkey and Elsewhere

Yazarlar: Laurence RAW

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2002 Issue 15, pp.23-31

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/2002

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000735065

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Laurence RAW

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2002 Issue 15, pp.23-31

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2002

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735065

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606