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Global Partners in Education Journal   April 2014, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-4 
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From the Guest Editor: 
 
Dr. Alla L. Nazarenko 
Lomonosov Moscow State University 
Moscow, RUSSIA 
 
The contemporary world is dialectical: centrifugal and centripetal forces affect it, uniting 
and at the same time disuniting it, getting it globalized as well as discrete. Vectors 
representing an enormous array of interests point in different directions. Countries, 
nations and people must adapt to this to survive. They have to understand each other... 
Understanding is a way to compromise, to have a thoughtful attitude, and careful 
thinking. 
 
To reach understanding on a global scale is an impossible mission. But persistent, 
constant, and multiple efforts can accumulate a big potential. According to logical 
reasoning quantity will turn into quality. 
 
The Global Understanding program is one such effort. Having been started at the very 
beginning of the XXI century by East Carolina University, this initiative was first 
supported by 3-4 like-minded universities. Now, 10 years later, it is Global Partnership 
in Education, a world-wide association having partner-universities in 30 countries 
around the world. 
 
Students meet each other in a virtual environment; they talk about their lives and 
interests, their differences and similarities, their native cultures, traditions and customs. 
Many of them, "travelling" via telecommunication, for the first time in their life "visit" 
Africa and Latin America, China and India and,- yes! Russia, and many more "exotic" 
places about which they frequently have rather limited and stereotypic ideas. 
 
This is just the case with Russian students from Moscow State University's Department 
of Languages. We have been in the GU program since 2005 and over time our 
experience has distinctly changed MSU students and teachers. We cannot imagine our 
academic life without having this course on the curriculum of the Department. The 
course is a genuine testing ground for communication across cultures. Students learn 
how to apply their theoretical knowledge in cross-cultural communication in practice, in 
real communication with their peers from various corners of the world. It gives them 
competence and confidence, helps overcome anxiety and breaks false stereotypes, a 
great obstacle to mutual understanding. 
 
We are ardent supporters of the noble idea of the program. It should continue, it should 
grow. Grow both in the number of participants and in the scope of knowledge acquired 
by them. It should be strengthened by more creative activities, boosting student interest 
and motivation to obtain deep knowledge of the world they live in and of each other. 
This is a true path to global understanding. 
 
 

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From the Editorial Board: 
 
Thank you to all those who continue to support the GPEJ through submitting articles, 
reviewing, and serving as editors. We especially want to thank Dr. Alla L. Nazarenko 
who served as our first guest editor. She and her team did an exceptional job. For issue 
five, we welcome, Dr. Mariko Eguchi from the University of Shimane in Hamada, Japan, 
as our guest editor. We look forward to working with her.  
 
As GPEJ continues to grow, so must our editorial team. Starting with issue five, we will 
change the structure of our editorial board and have four new associate editors working 
with us. We hope that through these changes we will be able to provide better service to 
the journal and its readers. 
 
Finally, as always, we want to thank all those who have reviewed for the journal over 
the past two years. Your reviews are an essential component of the final product you 
see in each and every issue. 
 

Guest Editor 
Alla Nazarenko 

Lomonosov Moscow State University 
Moscow, Russia 

 
Editor 

Biwu Yang 
East Carolina University 

Greenville, NC, USA 
 

Associate Editors 
 

Marion Eppler 
East Carolina University 

Greenville, NC, USA 
 

Jami Leibowitz 
East Carolina University 

Greenville, NC, USA 
 

Leslie Pagliari 
East Carolina University 

Greenville, NC, USA 
 

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GPEJ Review Board 
 

David Batts  
East Carolina University  
Greenville, NC USA  
  
Chris Brighton 
Krosno State College 
Krosno, POLAND 
 
Rosina Chia  
East Carolina University  
Greenville, NC, USA  
  
Patch Clark  
East Carolina University  
Greenville, NC, USA  
  
Vivian Covington 
East Carolina University 
Greenville, NC, USA 
 
Elizabeth Crawford 
University of North Carolina at 
Wilmington  
Wilmington, NC, USA  
 
Vera A. Dugartsyrenova 
Lomonosov Moscow State University 
Moscow, RUSSIA 
 
Marion Eppler  
East Carolina University  
Greenville, NC, USA  
   
Charles Iruonagbe 
Covenant University 
Ota, NIGERIA 
 
Li Jin  
Shandong University  
Shandong, CHINA  
  
 
 
 

Sergey S. Khromov 
Moscow State University of 
Economics, Statistics and 
Informatics 
Moscow, RUSSIA 
 
Misty Kirby  
University of North Carolina at 
Wilmington  
Wilmington, NC, USA  
  
Jami Leibowitz  
East Carolina University  
Greenville, NC, USA  
  
Mary Lewis  
North Carolina Agricultural and 
Technical State University  
Greensboro, NC, USA  
  
Heidi Luchsinger  
East Carolina University  
Greenville, NC, USA  
 
Brian Meagher  
The College Board 
New York, NY, USA  
  
Shu Mou 
Teachers’ College of Beijing Union   
     University 
Beijing, CHINA 
  
Noureddine Mouhadjer  
Université Abou Bekr Belkaid  
Tlemcen, ALGERIA  
  
María Luisa Mu 
Customized Training Services 
Lima, PERU 
 
 
 
 

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Alla L. Nazarenko 
Lomonosov Moscow State University 
Moscow, RUSSIA 
 
Judy Neubrander  
Western Carolina University  
Cullowhee, NC, USA  
 
Cajetan Ifeanyi Nnaocha 
University of The Gambia 
Serekunda, THE GAMBIA 
 
Maj-Helen Nyback 
Novia University of Applied Sciences 
Vaasa, FINLAND 
 
Femi  Olufunmilade 
Igbinedion University of Okada 
Okada, Edo State, NIGERIA 
 
Nilüfer Pembecioğlu 
Istanbul University 
Istanbul, TURKEY 
 
Uliana M. Proshina 
Lomonosov Moscow State University 
Moscow, RUSSIA 
 
Rita Rodabaugh 
East Carolina University 
Greenville, NC, USA 
 
Jerono Rotich  
North Carolina Agricultural and 
Technical State University  
Greensboro, NC, USA  
  
 
 

Nadya Rudenko 
Ural State Pedagogical University 
Yekaterinburg, RUSSIA 
 
Elaine Seeman  
East Carolina University  
Greenville, NC, USA  
 
Doris Shih  
Fu Jen Catholic University  
New Taipei City, TAIWAN  
  
John Southworth 
East Carolina University 
Greenville, NC, USA 
 
Irina Swain 
East Carolina University 
Greenville, NC, USA 
 
Ludmila G. Syzikh 
Lomonosov Moscow State University 
Moscow, RUSSIA  
 
Mary Nyangweso Wangila 
East Carolina University 
Greenville, NC, USA 
 
Sean White  
Ryukoku University  
Kyoto, JAPAN  
  
Biwu Yang  
East Carolina University  
Greenville, NC, USA  
  
Vadim Zyubanov  
Tomsk State Pedagogical University  
Tomsk, RUSSIA  

 

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