"Among the scholars who have built the field of Korean studies are former Peace Corps volunteers who served in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s before pursuing advanced degrees in anthropology, history, and literature. These scholars, who formed the core of the second generation of Korean Studies scholars in the US, reflect in this volume on their personal experience of serving during Korea's period of military dictatorship, on issues of gender and the Peace Corps experience, and on how random assignment to Korea sparked fascination and led to lifelong professional involvement with the country. Two chapters by Korean studies scholars who were not Peace Corps volunteers (one American and one Korean) assess how Peace Corps volunteers have influenced development of the field"--

In the book From the Peace Corps, to Teachers College, to New York City classrooms, the Peace Corps Fellows share their adventures and thoughts about education.

From the Peace Corps, to Teachers College, to New York City classrooms, my heroes are the Peace Corps Fellows. They teach and support New York City students, our incandescent treasures, with their cultivated global and local magic. If we pause for a moment, and think about how the Fellows spent their waking hours making their home in another country, painting murals, sharing new skills, expanding their own ways of seeing, playing games with children and connecting with our human family living under one great sky, we can see how their experiences enrich the lives of the students they teach.

When the World Calls is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps’s first fifty years. Revelatory and candid, journalist Stanley Meisler’s engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers’ unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and memorable anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961. In the years since, in spite of setbacks, the ethos of the Peace Corps has endured, largely due to the perseverance of the 200,000 Volunteers themselves, whose shared commitment to effect positive global change has been a constant in one of our most complex—and valued—institutions.