CONTEXTS FOR THE STUDY OF CROSS-CULTURAL EDUCATION.

Data derived from a panel study of American Jewish students in Israel were analyzed within several conceptual contexts. The problems of learning and adjustment of the student in a foreign country were looked at as those of a person in a new psychological situation, as those of a stranger in the host society, and as those of a person in overlapping situations. Attention was given to the effect of the orientation of the student on the cross-cultural experience. Change in the cross-cultural situation was viewed as a particular instance of reeducation. At the same time attention was directed to the special perspective provided by the study of cross-cultural education on these processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]