A Perspective for Further Research on Cross-Cultural Education.

The article presents a perspective for further research on cross-cultural education. Ordering present research in terms of the locus of sojourn and the locus of effects studied leads to several observations concerning areas of concentration and neglect. Research has heavily emphasized the situation of "foreign" nationals sojourning in the U.S. Very little has been done in regard to processes and effects pertaining to U.S. nationals abroad or to exchanges between third countries. For obvious practical reasons, American sponsored research in cross-cultural education has been "ethnocentric" in this respect. Practical considerations will probably continue to favor this unbalance in emphasis. From the standpoint of cumulative scientific understanding of cross-cultural education, however, it is unfortunate. In today's world, the U.S. happens to be a unique country in a number of respects. It is important to know the extent to which findings involving the U.S. as locus of exchange can be extended to cross-cultural situations generally.