THE MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF CULTURALLY DETERMINED IMPLICIT VALUES FOR THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF EDUCATION

As international mobility increases not only for students and teachers but also for other categories of professionals, thus ceasing to be the reserved purview of a small sophisticated elite, the need to predict in advance the cultural adaptability of large numbers of average candidates becomes increasingly important. After a short description of what culturally determined implicit values are and how they are formed and articulated, the authors describe a survey instrument which they developed for measuring culturally determined implicit value differences among selected groups of students of different nationalities and present some of the tentative conclusions which it enabled them to reach.