Below are listed a few suggested resources and references on key topics relating to SAFSA members' professional concerns. It is neither authoritative nor exhaustive, but aims to be a starting point to share resources - especially online ones - of general interest to SAFSA members. If you'd like to suggest any additional items we could include, or if you have any comments on those already included, please email the SAFSA Committee.

• Advising internationally mobile students
• Culture shock, orientation and adaptation and re-entry
• Intercultural communication
• Teaching & learning across cultures
• Crisis and risk management
• Disability and mobility

Advising internationally mobile students

Althen, G., (1983) The Handbook of Foreign Student Advising. The Intercultural Press, Yarmouth, Me, USA.

Brockington, J.L., Hoffa, W.H., Martin, P.C., (Eds) (undated) NAFSA's Guide to Education Abroad for Advisers and Administrators, Third Edition, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Washington DC.

Cohen, A. D., Paige, R. M., Kappler, B., Demmessie, M., Weaver, S. J., Chi, J.C., & Lassegard, J. P. (2003). Maximizing study abroad: A language instructor’s guide to strategies for language and culture learning and use. Minneapolis, MN: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota

Hammer, M.R., (1992), Research, Mission Statements, and International Student Advising Offices. In: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 1992, Volume 16, Number 2, SIETAR, New York, NY, USA, pp. 217-237.

Hermans, J. & Pusch, M.D. (2004) Culture Matters. EAIE occasional paper no 16. Amsterdam: European Assocation for International Education

Paige, R. M., Cohen, A. D., Kappler, B., Chi, J.C., & Lassegard, J. P. (2002). Maximizing study abroad: A program coordinators' guide to strategies for language and culture learning and use. Minneapolis, MN: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota.

Paige, R. M., Cohen, A. D., Kappler, B., Chi, J.C., & Lassegard, J. P. (2002). Maximizing study abroad: A students' guide to strategies for language and culture learning and use. Minneapolis, MN: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota

Pedersen, P. and A. Ivey (1993) Culture-Centered Counseling and Interviewing Skills: A Practical Guide. Praeger, Westport, CT.

Ponterotto, J. and P. Pedersen (1993) Preventing Prejudice: A Guide for Counselors and Educators. Sage, Newbury Park, CA.

Sue, D. W., E. H. Richardson, R. A. Ruiz and E. J. Smith (1990) Counseling the Culturally Different: Theory and Practice. 3rd ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York.

Culture shock, orientation, adaptation and re-entry

Anderson, L. E., (1994) A New Look at an Old Concept: Cross-Cultural Adaptation, in International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Vol. 18 (3)

Austin, C. (Ed.), 1986, Cross-Cultural Reentry: A Book of Readings. Abilene Christian University Press.

Brabant, S., C.E. Palmer and R. Gramling, 1990, Returning Home: An empirical Investigation of Cross-Cultural Reentry. In: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 1990, Volume 14, Number 4. SIETAR, New York, NY, USA, pp. 387-405.

Ge Gao and W.B. Gudykunst (1990) Uncertainty, Anxiety and Adaptation. In: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 1990, Volume 14, Number 3. SIETAR, New York, NY, USA, pp. 301-319.

Hermans, J.W.M. (1991) Cultural differences and culture shock: Implications for the reception and guidance of overseas students. In: Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (ed) Ein Jahr davor: Studieren in Europa. Bonn:HRK (Dokumente zur Hochschulreform, 1991,71).

Kepets, D. (1999) Back in the USA. NAFSA: Washington DC

Kim Y. Y. and W. B. Gudykunst (Eds.), 1987, Cross-Cultural Adaptation: Current Approaches. International and Intercultural Communication Annual. Sage, Newbury Park, CA.

Paige, R. M. (Ed.) (1994) Cross-Cultural Orientation: New Conceptualizations and Applications. Intercultural Press, Yarmouth, ME.

Schütze, H.G. (1989) Social and cultural adjustment of foreign students: Experience from western Europe. In K. Ebuchi (ed) Foreign Students and Internationalization of Higher Education: Proceedings of OECD/Japan Seminar on Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign Students. Hiroshima: Hiroshima University, Research Institute for Higher Education.

Storti, C. (1997) The Art of Coming Home. Intercultural Press.

Storti, C., (1990) The Art of Crossing Cultures. Intercultural Press, Yarmouth, ME.

Thomas, J., (1992) Returning home: adjusting to life after study abroad. London: Fulbright Commission, various pagination.

Unterhalter, E. & Green, D., (1997) Making the Adjustment: Orientation programmes for international students. London: UKCOSA. 84pp.

Unterhalter, E. & Hayton, A. (1993) Homeward Bound: A UKCOSA Pack for Advisers and Tutors Organising Courses for Students Returning Home After Studying in the UK. London: UKCOSA. Pagination various.

Ward, C., Bochner, S. & Furnham, A (2001). The psychology of culture shock. London: Routledge.

Weaver, G. (1987) The Process of Reentry. The Advising Quarterly. No.2, Fall. 2-7.

Intercultural communication

Bennett, M., (Editor) (1998) Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Press.

Chen, G. and Starosta, W.J. (1997) Foundations of Intercultural Communication. 1 edition, Allyn & Bacon.

Gudykunst, W. B. and Kim, Y. Y. (1991) Communicating With Strangers: An Approach to Intercultural Communication. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.

Hofstede, G. (1991) Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. McGraw-Hill, London, UK.

Ting-Toomey, S. (1999) Communicating Across Cultures, Guilford Press

For further reading on cross-cultural communication see The Intercultural Communication Institute and the Intercultural Press.

Teaching and learning across cultures

Althen, G. (ed.) (1994) Learning across cultures. NAFSA, Washington DC.

Carroll, J. and Ryan, J. (2005) Teaching international students: Improving learning for all, Routledge, Abingdon & New York

Hofstede, G. (1986) Cultural Differences in Teaching and Learning, In: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 1986, Volume 10, Number 3, pp. 301-320.

McNamara, D. and Harris, R. (1997), Overseas students in higher education: issues in teaching and learning. Routledge, London

Pusch, M.D. (Ed.) (1981) Multicultural Education. A Cross-Cultural Training Approach. Intercultural Press, Chicago, Ill, USA, 2nd edition.

Richardson, J. (1994) Cultural Specificity of Approaches to Studying in Higher Education, in Higher Education, 27: 449 - 468.

Ryan, J. (2000) A guide to teaching international students. Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

Ryan, Y., and Zuber-Skerritt, O. (1999) Supervising postgraduates from non-English speaking backgrounds. SRHE/Open University Press, Buckingham

Teekens, H. (ed.) (2004) The International Classroom. Nuffic Paper (8), The Hague.

Crisis and risk management

Burak, P.A. and Hoffa, W.W., (Eds) (2001) Crisis Management in a Cross-Cultural Setting, NAFSA, Washington DC

Gaskin, N. (2002) International students in crisis: a guide for institutions, UKCOSA, London.

NUFFIC (2000) Prepared for the worst, Nuffic, the Hague. Download from: www.nuffic.nl/pdf/i/Crisis-en.pdf

Disability and mobility

Mobility International USA provides useful resources for internationally mobile students with disabilities across the world - see http://www.miusa.org/ for free publications including "A Practice of Yes! Working with Overseas Partners to Include Students with Disabilities"

The HEAG database – a guide to accessibility services in Higher Education Institutions across Europe. - see http://www.heagnet.org/

 

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