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Learning and leadership development

Series consists of records relating to Simpson's efforts to promote learning and leadership development, including general resource material, toolkits, articles, and theme files.

Series also includes course descriptions, notes, correspondence, committee minutes and other records relating to Simpson's work at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Series also documents Simpson's efforts to develop the Centre for International Business Studies (CIBS) at the University of Western Ontario in the late 1980s, including preliminary plans, correspondence, program and conference material, resource material, speeches, and project records. In particular, many files relate to CIBS partnerships with Chinese educational institutions and the Institute for International Business Communication (IIBC) in Japan, in particular relating to their Corporate Communications Seminars.

Series also consists of correspondence, speeches, planning files and notebooks related to Simpson's term as Vice President and Director of the Banff Centre for Management in Alberta, including the Banff Centre's relationship with the Prosperity Secretariat.

Series also includes records relating to Axia's efforts at leadership development, via the School for Change Leaders/Agents and Athabasca University in the late 1990s.

International development

Series consists of records relating to Simpson's involvement with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) from 1972-1976, developing their program in education under the direction of Ruth Zagorin in the Social Sciences Division. Series includes minutes, reports, papers, notes, speeches, trip reports and other records documenting Simpson's work on international education projects for both adults and children, cooperation between private companies and educational institutions, and human resources development. Included in these IDRC records are those relating to Project IMPACT, one of IDRC's flagship projects. Project IMPACT was an action research project on the delivery of mass primary education, organized under INNOTECH, one of six regional centres operating under the umbrella of SEAMEO (Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organization). The project was first tested in Indonesia and the Philippines and later tested in Jamaica, Liberia, Malaysia and Bangladesh. Records include correspondence, notes, workbooks (modules) used by students, progress reports, publications, planning documents and other records. Series also consists of records relating to Simpson's co-directorship of the Forum for International Activities (FIA), 1984-1987, a non-profit association of public and private organizations interested in advancing the Canadian capacity to respond to requests from other countries for human resource development support. Records include papers, correspondence and planning documents. The series also consists of conference materials, reports and correspondence relating to international health efforts, including meetings relating to creating a Canadian University Federation of International Health. Series also includes various general articles on international development issues, publications and brochures from other development organizations, and travel material and notes from trips.

Cross-cultural education lecture notes and other material

Series consists of records pertaining to Simpson's work in cross-cultural education from the 1970s to the early 1990s, predominantly at the University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Education and the Centre for International Business Studies. The records include lecture notes, articles and readings, speeches, visual materials such as overhead transparencies, course syllabi, reports, teaching materials such as case studies and exercises, correspondence, clippings and student assignments. The subjects documented include teaching students of different cultures, First Nations thought systems and education, education in the developing world, and inter-cultural issues in international management. A number of subject files contain resources on ethnicity, I.Q., social class, compensatory education and language and their effect on learning and success. There are also a number of files inherited by Simpson, created by another professor at the UWO business school, Joseph J. DeStefano. Courses Simpson taught at the business school included "The culturally different child" and "Problems in cross-cultural management." He taught the latter course at UWO in the spring of 1989 and then in Germany at the Koblenz School of Business in the fall of 1989. The series also includes files from workshops Simpson ran in 1980 for CBC North managers following his report on "The use of radio and television for education purposes in the Canadian North -- what can be learned from the experiences of the Third World?"

Odyssey ch. 9 : IDRC - manuscripts & publications

File includes articles, memoranda, speeches and notes. Among the documents is a 1987 article by Don Simpson and Rosemary A. McCarney on the potential of Third World Development and Canadian business partnerships.

Miscellaneous articles, papers and newsletters

File includes an information package for students in the "Indian-Eskimo affairs program," documents on the secondary school programme in international studies sponsored by York University, and a resource book for elementary school teachers published by External Affairs Canada, among other records.

The cross-cultural learner centre: a documentary record of the years 1969-1974 / The Office of International Education, University of Western Ontario

File contains a three volume collection of documents created by and for the Cross-cultural Learner Centre of UWO's Office of International Education. The documents include course materials, proposals, reports, newsletters, essays, minutes, memoranda, calenders and assessments.

The cross-cultural learner centre: a documentary record of the years 1969-1974 / The Office of International Education, University of Western Ontario

File contains a three volume collection of documents created by and for the Cross-cultural Learner Centre of UWO's Office of International Education. The documents include course materials, proposals, reports, newsletters, essays, minutes, memoranda, calenders and assessments.

The cross-cultural learner centre: a documentary record of the years 1969-1974 / The Office of International Education, University of Western Ontario

File contains a three volume collection of documents created by and for the Cross-cultural Learner Centre of UWO's Office of International Education. The documents include course materials, proposals, reports, newsletters, essays, minutes, memoranda, calenders and assessments.

Imagination toolkit material

File includes overhead transparencies, mind puzzles, and papers and other documents on mental maps, cross-cultural education, and 'the learning organization.'

Imagination toolkit material

File includes overhead transparencies, mind puzzles, and papers and other documents on mental maps, cross-cultural education, and 'the learning organization.'

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