http://www.crossculturalkid.org/blog Ruth Van Reken's Homepage Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:27:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Exchanges Connect has launched the 2nd Annual ExchangesConnect Video Contest. Enter your original video and you will have a chance to win an all-expense-paid international exchange program from the U.S. Department of State! Together with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, we invite you to address this year’s theme, “...Change Your Climate, Change Our World.” ... http://www.crossculturalkid.org/blog/exchanges-connect-has-launched-the-2nd-annual-exchangesconnect-contest/ Please support TCKID, our Third Culture Kid community. I want to encourage everyone to get behind this. This has been a grassroots project from the beginning, don't let it die. Thank you to the whole community for your incredible gifts. Please listen to my audio message below: You can sign ... http://www.crossculturalkid.org/blog/saving-tckid/ How Hidden Diversity of CCKs Applies to the Educational Process by Ruth E. Van Reken In 2003, we interviewed parents from a variety of countries and cultures whose children were then attending school in the U.S. Each of their children had also gone to school in countries outside the U.S., some to ... http://www.crossculturalkid.org/blog/how-hidden-diversity-of-ccks-applies-to-the-educational-process/ As a citizen of the USA raised for thirteen years in Nigeria, I'm an adult Third Culture Kid (TCK) -- that is, I, like many others, was raised for a significant portion of my childhood outside my parents' culture. My father, children, and first grandchild are TCKs as well. My life ... http://www.crossculturalkid.org/blog/welcome-to-cross-cultural-kids/